Example sentences of "of [num] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music melody continues with HOT STUFF an outrageous new musical which celebrates the era of 70 's glam-rock . |
| 2 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 3 | In light of cancellation of 5029 's programme of Northern running in the early part of 1992 , investigations are currently under way to put together a limited number of trips ( including , a short visit to the National Railway Museum , York ) . |
| 4 | Some of 1993 's mussel profits will be invested in a cause calculated to gladden the dead king 's heart — the Tain Pilgrimage Centre is a tourist project celebrating the town 's links with the Stuart dynasty . |
| 5 | The line ( 0 ) is the reaction function of manufacturer 1 whilst is the reaction function of the retailer of 2 's product when charged an input price ( costs are assumed here to equal zero ) . |
| 6 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 7 | ‘ We were the second example of 1960 's privatisation ( the Bluebell Railway in Sussex being the first ) but our 25-year hire purchase was the first and only one which British Rail permitted . |
| 8 | Several further assessments of the UDC policy can be drawn out of MDC 's experience . |
| 9 | The remainder of this chapter , taking into account these uncertainties and the changing nature of MDC 's development role , will discuss the consequences of its past and future policy and practice on the central — and controversial — themes of accountability , housing and economic development . |
| 10 | The wider geographical remit fundamentally altered the nature and characteristics of MDC 's area and accordingly the challenge and tasks the Corporation faces . |
| 11 | Join in the fun and celebrate the opening of 1992 's Festival . |
| 12 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 13 | Being part of the natural world and a proper object of scientific study , X is predictable on the basis of X 's preferences and information , which are in turn the result of X 's nature and nurture . |
| 14 | X is accountable to Y for the proper management of the work of X 's section , which includes not only X 's responsibilities but also those of A , B and C. |
| 15 | Sean Connery , George Lazenby , Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton stood around Paxton as he searched through the drawers of M 's desk , but the James Bond tableau was no help to him either . |
| 16 | But that does not explain why 12 per cent of 1981 's science graduates could not find work . |
| 17 | Inanna Grisaille ; she supervised the clerks in the Chamber of Ten 's office . |
| 18 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 19 | The father of five 's face was so badly busted he had to be fitted with a metal cage to keep the bones in place until they set . |
| 20 | The mother of five 's family doctor had told Hope Hospital , in Manchester , that she was extremely allergic to codeine and must NEVER be given the painkiller . |
| 21 | This approach , which dominated the abortion reform movements of Sixties ' North America , is rooted in liberal humanism which values science and rational thought . |
| 22 | In fact this vision of pop is as fictional and irrelevant today as the indie notion of ‘ perfect pop ’ ( an airy idyll of sixties ' byrdsong ) , Today 's pop is soulful , concerned with banishing inhuman traces , yearning for a lost passion and integrity . |
| 23 | For all vehicles , including heavy goods lorries , the types of emissions covered by catalysts are expected to fall by 2006 to a minimum of about 70 per cent of 1989 's output . |
| 24 | For all the turbulence and excitement that erupted with the Gang of Four 's break with Labour in 1981 , Britain looked as much a two-party system at the end of the decade as it did in 1980 . |
| 25 | THESE Hartlepool lads throw everything into this two-track demo , and end up sounding like early Eighties ' pop combined with touches of Nineties ' hardcore . |
| 26 | Siting the Boilerhouse at the V&A ( between 1982 and 1987 ) was a bold attempt to revamp the museum 's image as an old-fashioned and intimidating palace of culture while at the same time implying a continuity or purpose : one of the first Boilerhouse exhibitions was on the subject of ‘ taste ’ , a neat dovetailing of 19th century didactic aims for the museum with the concerns of 1980s ' retailing . |
| 27 | The acid-sweet pastels of 1950s ' food photography come to mind . |
| 28 | The Assembly adopted a resolution approving the 1991 socio-economic development plan and analysing the results of 1990 's plan . |
| 29 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 14 reported that the government had estimated export losses caused by the war at 30 per cent of 1990 's performance . |
| 30 | The extent of British defence cuts is still anyone 's guess , even in Whitehall ; but the Defence Manufacturers ' Association reckons real annual spending will fall to about 75% of 1990 's figure within five years . |