Example sentences of "'s [num ord] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sgt. Maj. Airey enlisted in the TA 's 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in 1961 , switching to the Royal Army Medical Corps six years later . |
| 2 | Walks on the beach were impossible because the Army had covered the sands with barbed wire and netting and on the couple 's first night the skating rink in front of the Grand Hotel was burned down . |
| 3 | His contemporary Gregory Corso 's first book The Vestal Lady On Brattle had just been published . |
| 4 | It need not be individual life , since in Bilbo 's second version others can take it up and follow it in their turn ; however in Frodo 's and Bilbo 's first version the image of the traveller pursuing the Road looks very like a symbol of the individual pursuing his moment of consciousness down the unknown road which is everyone 's future life , to an end which no one can predict . |
| 5 | Thus , in Reagan 's first term the overall budget of the EPA was cut by 35 per cent , there was a 62 per cent drop in enforcement actions against strip mine violations and a 50 per cent fall in hazardous waste prosecutions . |
| 6 | He had been promoted from general secretary to " president " of the LPRP at the party 's fifth congress the previous April [ see p. 38150 ] . |
| 7 | On the jacket cover of Emily Carr 's last book the following tribute to her life and work is paid in these words : ‘ Emily Carr is regarded throughout Europe and America as Canada 's greatest painter . |