Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] ['s] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of Doctor 's research the char is painlessly tagged before being released back into the lake . |
| 2 | Experts know little about how people are coping , but research in the past couple of years shows that for the majority of India 's people the cooking energy crisis is already here . |
| 3 | In the course of Yeltsin 's visit the two sides signed 24 joint statements , documents and memorandums of understanding in areas including military and technical co-operation , space exploration , nuclear energy development , border security and armed forces reduction , trade and economic co-operation and educational and scientific exchanges . |
| 4 | In the case of Chequer 's Buttress the key is a long , long reach left to a rounded ‘ break ’ on the arête , the security of a good crack on the right fading as commitment takes over . |
| 5 | In the case of magistrates ' courts the amount is subject to a maximum of £2,000 on any one order . |
| 6 | Following publication of Kimura 's paper the dichotic listening technique was taken up enthusiastically as a means of assessing language laterality in normal subjects . |
| 7 | In a speech on Tehran radio on June 5 Hojatolislam Seyed Ali Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , repeated the demand that the British novelist Salman Rushdie should be handed over to British Moslems " so that he can be killed for blasphemy against Islam " , as first decreed by fatwa issued in February 1989 by the late Ayatollah Khomeini after publication of Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see pp. 36450-51 ] . |
| 8 | These concerns were addressed to local politics following the publication of Cockburn 's book The Local State ( 1977 ) . |
| 9 | At the moment of Jesus ' death the curtain of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom . |
| 10 | In addition to the latest tapes by the Beatles , Joni Mitchell , Bob Dylan , Van Morrison and Neil Young , we took some reference books on shells , fishes and birds — and an 1890 edition of Wallace 's classic The Malay Archipelago . |
| 11 | From the sound of Summerchild 's voice the news is either surprisingly good or surprisingly bad . |
| 12 | Since that day of Dirac 's discovery the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those in the know . |
| 13 | In spite of Hawke 's presence the number of enemy ships at Brest rose , within ten days , from 11 to 17 , as the French began the build-up to invasion . |
| 14 | In the end , however , and in spite of Acheson 's approval the policy Planning Staff paper ( PPS 51 ) remained , as Robert Blum puts it , a non-policy paper : for information rather than for action . |
| 15 | In spite of Schellenberg 's uniform the sentry checked their identities thoroughly before allowing them through . |
| 16 | However , a friend of Forster 's claims the author hated the idea of any of his novels being screened . |
| 17 | It will be apparent from this that in the event of LCH 's liquidation the clearing members would rank not as members but as creditors or debtors . |
| 18 | Expecting this , he had first tried to flee the city , and in the aftermath of John 's flight the Council passed a decree ( Sacrosancta ) proclaiming the supremacy of the Council over the pope . |
| 19 | In the aftermath of Sigibert 's murder the survival of his son Childebert II was uncertain : Chilperic took advantage of the difficulties facing the young king to seize some of his cities . |
| 20 | Davies ( 1972 ) , on Newcastle , and Dennis ( 1972 ) , on Sunderland , both show how council officials acted almost independently over issues of urban redevelopment , their actions being governed by a vague notion of the type of planning needed to produce ‘ a good society ’ — hence the title of Davies 's book The Evangelistic Bureaucrat . |
| 21 | As I helped myself to a drop of Taff 's tea the guns down by the River Orne opened up again , the shells all heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 22 | However , in the absence of Beethoven 's manuscript the only reliable source of the transcription is the first edition of 1805 , where the passage is quite clearly in the minor throughout . |
| 23 | He became Curate also of Newton Heath in 1789 , and the Earl of Hardwick 's chaplain the following year . |
| 24 | From A View of the Present State of Ireland 's perspective the civilised , the moral and the godly are equated . |
| 25 | And was n't the disciplined , self-denying spirit of Nietzsche 's Superman the finest expression of this high ideal ? |
| 26 | To the general invalidity of infants ' contracts the Common Law recognized the exceptions of contracts for necessaries and contracts for the infants ' benefit , and these exceptions are not affected by statute . |
| 27 | In an article in Figaro in 1978 Jean-Pierre Dujardin collected together the best-researched estimates of lives lost under communism : it was based on studies such as Robert Conquest 's classic analysis of Stalin 's purges The Great Terror , Professor Kuganov 's seminal study of liquidations based on a detailed demographic survey of Russia 's population between 1939 and 1959 and the detailed work done by Professor Richard Walker in a report commissioned by the U S Senate and published in 1971 . |
| 28 | The President would ( i ) submit to the Congress of People 's Deputies annual reports on the state of the country , and would brief the USSR Supreme Soviet " on the most important matters of the USSR 's domestic and foreign policy " ; ( ii ) propose to the USSR Supreme Soviet ( and subsequently to the Congress for confirmation ) candidates for the posts of the Chair of the USSR Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) , Chair of the USSR Committee of People 's Control , Chair of the USSR Supreme Court , USSR Procurator General and USSR Chief State Arbiter , as well as recommend to the USSR Supreme Soviet and to the Congress the removal of these officials ( with the exception of the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court ) ; ( iii ) place before the USSR Supreme Soviet the question of forcing or of accepting the resignation of the USSR Council of Ministers , and would appoint and remove in conjunction with the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers members of that body ( subject to confirmation by the USSR Supreme Soviet ) ; ( iv ) sign USSR laws , being entitled within a period of no more than two weeks to refer a law and objections to it back to the USSR Supreme Soviet for further discussion and voting ( should the USSR Supreme Soviet confirm its earlier decision by a two-thirds majority in both its chambers the President would be obliged to sign the law ) ; ( v ) enjoy the right to suspend the operation of USSR Council of Ministers resolutions and instructions ; and ( vi ) propose to the Congress of People 's Deputies the dissolution and re-election of the USSR Supreme Soviet in the event of an irreconcilable dispute over legislation arising between that body 's two chambers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By the end of Lanfranc 's life the number is given by a later domestic chronicler as a hundred , and it was still rising . |