Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortimer and Isabella tried to cultivate support for their regime by lavish grants to the deposed king 's half-brothers the Earls of Norfolk and Rent : Rent , for example , was granted Despenser 's forfeited lands in Leicestershire . |
| 2 | At Aimar 's command the inhabitants of St Martial 's took an oath of allegiance to the Young King and then prepared to stand siege . |
| 3 | Linda Lee , Development Officer , Renfrew District Project , Alzheimer 's Scotland The AIMS of the specialist day care unit are as follows : a To provide a respite break to the carer and give the sufferer a positive place in the community where something positive can be put back into their lives and improve their awareness on a day-to-day basis . |
| 4 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 5 | It brought ashore from the near-disaster of Hitler 's war the survivals of a long literary past , including the longest of all theatrical traditions in human history , and found some surprisingly untraditional uses for them , as Crusoe once did for his tool-kit : most notably the fictional realism that Defoe 's novel about a marooned sailor , in 1719 , once made the inspiration of all Europe . |
| 6 | His neglect of such a sacred duty had scandalised some , even members of the old priesthood , but behind Tutankhamun 's inaction the policies of Horemheb were discerned , and no public protest was raised . |
| 7 | THE saleroom event of the week is in Amsterdam tomorrow and Wednesday , when Christie 's auctions the contents of the Vung Tau , an Asian trading junk that sank off Vietnam in the late 17th century . |
| 8 | As Nicholas Booth reports , Britain is playing a prominent role in a complex satellite which could unveil the mysteries of the Earth 's resources The Euro-eyes of the world . |
| 9 | As for this year 's event the fruits of its endeavours may not be fairly assessed in the short term . |
| 10 | She was used to seeing men 's bodies ; but she had never seen a woman 's strike the poses of these images . |
| 11 | We 'll explain in layman 's terms the benefits of the various satellite TV systems available and work out what 's best for you . |
| 12 | As applied to advertising , it can , in theory , be used to separate out from a product 's sales the effects of different aspects of marketing activity , so as to assess the contribution of advertising . |
| 13 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
| 14 | As a character in Doris Lessing 's novel The Diaries of Jane Somers , says about old people , ‘ I had not seen them . |
| 15 | Readers of William Cooper 's novel The Struggles of Albert Woods will remember the frantic indignation this caused . |
| 16 | It was in fact going to be a ‘ complex ’ process , since it would require ‘ permanent , steady and patient activity to delete from people 's minds the remains of the past , the obsolete conceptions , mentalities and customs , and to cultivate a new attitude towards work , life and society . ’ |
| 17 | During Hart 's time the responsibilities of the customs had been concerned only with the collection of duties and the prevention of smuggling ; Chinese officials were responsible for banking the revenue and for its use in the service of loans and other financial obligations to foreign governments for which it was security . |
| 18 | One hesitates long before accepting such details from a hagiographer writing some sixty years later , not least because by Goscelin 's time the canons of St Gregory 's Canterbury were claiming that they , not St Augustine 's , had Mildred 's remains . |
| 19 | Samuel Sharp , tells us that on Wilfrid 's death the monks of the priory helped to carry his body from Oundle in Northamptonshire to Ripon Abbey , where he was buried . |
| 20 | The Revenue has raised an assessment charging tax in excess of £20,000 and has refused retirement relief on the sale of the milk quota because no land was sold ; farming continued after the sale ( in the Revenue 's view the provisions of s 53(2)TA88 mean that when a farmer changes the nature of his farming there is a continuation of the old trade and that the old and the new are equally applicable for CGT purposes ) ; the sales of the herd and milk quota were not effected at the same time . |
| 21 | In Pynchon 's novels the plots of wholly imagined fiction are inseparable from the plots of known history or science . |
| 22 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 23 | Lancaster was now joined by the king 's uncles the Earls of Rent and Norfolk and a group of lords who had lost lands in Scotland , chief amongst whom were Henry Beaumont , Thomas Wake of Liddel and David of Strathbogie , claimant to the earldom of Atholl . |