Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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1 | From 1316 to 1319 Audley was one of a small group of courtiers , including Roger Damory [ q.v. ] and Hugh Despenser junior [ q.v. ] , husbands of the other two Gloucester co-heiresses , who kept a tight grip on Edward II 's patronage and favour ; though he was perhaps the least prominent of the three . |
2 | Oxford was an active supporter of the Readeption of Henry VI in 1470/1 , and on Edward IV 's return the family lost their estates for a second time . |
3 | Oxford was an active supporter of the Readeption of Henry VI in 1470/1 , and on Edward IV 's return the family lost their estates for a second time . |
4 | He suddenly realised that the French really did believe that he was here on a secret and delicate diplomatic mission on Edward I 's behalf , that his interest in Alexander III 's death was mere drapery , a trick to conceal his true task . |
5 | They imitated him in producing histories of the Capetian kings — the earliest being Suger 's successor 's work on Louis VII 's crusade . |
6 | On Louis VII 's advice the three brothers rejected these proposals . |
7 | The mayhem continues on Altern 8 's remix of ‘ Music For Boys ’ . |
8 | The whole of Blackacre is chargeable on Mr X 's death and not just an apportioned value thereof . |
9 | In the last three years Wanda had a string of successes , including Shisha Pangma , Gasherbrum 2 with Rhona Lampard in 1989 and a new variation on Gasherbrum 1 's north-west face in 1990 with Ewa Pakiewicz . |
10 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
11 | Detectives were manning special hotline phones after a tape was broadcast on BBC 1 's Crimewatch UK in the hope that someone may recognise Britain 's most wanted man . |
12 | Meanwhile , Samsung says it will release a workstation based on Hewlett-Packard Ltd 's 7100 Precision Architecture-Risc microprocessor in October . |
13 | Torquay 's manager Cyril Knowles on Manchester United 's winger Lee Sharpe . |
14 | Soccer : Ferguson set to leave Robson out of cup final Colin Gibson on Manchester United 's priority to win the League championship for the first time in 25 years |
15 | We 'll take a break there , still to come tonight , Roy Keane on Manchester United 's chances of staying in the European Cup , and in a couple of minutes , we concentrate on the Edinburgh derby . |
16 | We 'll take a break there , still to come tonight , Roy Keane on Manchester United 's chances of staying in the European Cup , and in a couple of minutes , we concentrate on the Edinburgh derby . |
17 | But this time , everyone was on George Merry 's side , and they began to climb out of the hole . |
18 | Queen Anne 's former chief minister , Henry St John , Viscount Bolingbroke , who had been ousted from office by a Whig on George I 's accession , arrived in Paris that spring , to be followed in August by another influential figure , James Butler , Duke of Ormonde , who had succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General and had contemplated leading a military rebellion against the new king . |
19 | The Dorchester crowd that sought to rescue the Pretender 's effigy from being burnt by the Dissenters on George I 's coronation day were encouraged by a certain gentleman who gave them half a hogshead of beer . |
20 | Burlington , California-based Object Design Inc has put ObjectStore , its object-oriented database system , on SunSoft Inc 's Solaris 2.1 , making it the first object database ported to the system . |
21 | SQLBase will be available on Sunsoft Inc 's Solaris 2.0 implementation by September . |
22 | Under the terms of the agreement , Sun will provide Apscore with resources to develop its Pick-based software to run on SunSoft Inc 's Unix , and will help Apscore to market the resulting Pick products overseas . |
23 | He also said Apple will ship servers based on Motorola Inc 's 68060 as well as PowerPC processors in 1994 . |
24 | Although the company is on Sparc International 's executive committee and Tsunami chips are reportedly available to firms other than Sun , the boxes will not be available until June . |
25 | Initial volumes of the processor will go to Sun , with smaller numbers going to unidentified vendors on Sparc International 's Executive Committee . |
26 | His breadth of interest will be noted by those who have read his interesting Men-at-Arms book on Henry VIII 's army , or his work on the firearms of the Chinese Nationalist forces 1937–45 in the IWM Review . |
27 | Though primarily a commentary on Henry II 's government in England , the Policraticus used the terms of Roman law , princeps for ruler and provincia , province , for the area of his rule ; these suggest that John also intended his book to be relevant to France , the land in which he had been educated and to which he was to return as bishop of Chartres . |