Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the mask of mob rule and anarchy was replaced by the naked face of despotism , and eventually it gave way to Napoleon 's personal image of collectivism : an imperial militarism . |
| 2 | The trip was made all the worse by Frankie 's morbid fear of flying . |
| 3 | This in essence is Durkheim 's utopian version of Maine 's thesis . |
| 4 | Neil 's steaming night of passion |
| 5 | On the other hand , Morley 's First Booke of Ayres , or little short Songs , to sing and play to the lute , with the bass viole ( 1600 ) , which includes that marvel of flexible English word-setting ‘ Thyrsis and Milla ’ , and ‘ It was a lover and his lass ’ , has no part-song version . |
| 6 | Only a very small proportion was published : Antony Holborne 's Pavans , Galliards , Almains and Morley 's First Booke of Consort Lessons ( both 1599 ) , Dowland 's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pavans … ( 1605 ) , Rosseter 's Lessons for Consort ( 1609 ) , two fantasias which Byrd included in Psalmes , Songs , and Sonnets ( 1611 ) and John Adson 's Courtly Masquing Ayres ( also 1611 ) . |
| 7 | Malcolm Morley 's spectacular copy of Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of the artist in his studio ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 43 , est. $350–450,000 ) established a new auction record for the artist when it was sold to Los Angeles collector , Eli Broad , for $570,000 ( £316,700 ) at the evening sale of 6 May . |
| 8 | Edwards took his season 's tally to 17 after bagging ten in Tuesday 's 78-0 destruction of Swinton . |
| 9 | IN SPITE OF Tuesday 's lively sale of sheep quota at Lanark , top price £46 , doubts remain among some farmers and other marts that their colleagues may have jumped the gun , writes Fordyce Maxwell . |
| 10 | Which may account for Minister Peter Walker 's recent description of agriculture as an ‘ outstanding success ’ . |
| 11 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 12 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 13 | Other big cities in the world were the subject of plans , often decentralist in nature , of which Thomas Adams 's Regional plan of New York was a celebrated example , issued in two volumes ( 1929 and 1931 ) and backed by eight subject reports . |
| 14 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 15 | Jean 's innate strength of character saw her fight the condition that she knew to be taking over her life . |
| 16 | The Tsar felt humiliated , the majority in the State Council were furious , and the Octobrists joined in bitter denunciation of Stolypin 's high-handed use of Article 87 . |
| 17 | Ceauşescu 's favoured style of architecture was 1930s fascist-brutalist with a strange , almost Cecil B. De Mille Biblical-Babylonian admixture . |
| 18 | These contradictory elements drew Eleanor 's first image of New York : smokestacks , horse-drawn carts , the steeple of Trinity church , shipchandlers offices , and English spoken in unfamiliar accents . |
| 19 | After the coup by the Marxist PDPA in Kabul in April 1978 Soviet officials grew reluctant to acknowledge Afghanistan 's legal status of neutrality in relation to the USSR . |
| 20 | Even in the case of Braque , whose development was more methodical than Picasso 's , the dating of certain works is problematical , and Picasso 's sporadic method of work makes it doubly hard . |
| 21 | For my part , I am desolated that my own forays into the grown-up world of politics have marred Mr Lejeune 's potential enjoyment of Jeeves and Wooster . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Meredith 's offered hand of greeting dropped limply to her side in bewilderment . |
| 24 | Hill 's slashed Pursuit of Love 's price to 8–1 from 33–1 , while the first offer of 10–1 by Coral 's immediately after the race was quickly snapped up and they now offer 7–1 . |
| 25 | On the eve of the papal visit the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano accused oil companies of encouraging separatists in Angola 's oil-endowed enclave of Cabinda , contiguous with Zaïre and Congo and separated from Angola proper . |
| 26 | This assembles the finest examples of woodcarving by the Asmat , selected from the collections in Leiden 's National Museum of Ethnography and other museums , and emphasising the striking modernity of much of this art . |
| 27 | The detailed history in the previous chapters has given an account of Ian Paisley 's personal combination of religion and politics . |
| 28 | And such adventure was far more interesting than Kent Nagano 's mundane performance of Prokofiev 's Sixth Symphony . |
| 29 | Bert 's best chance of success is the personal duty of care , under the head of competent staff . |
| 30 | There was little if any prospect of the left gaining support and still less power in Japan after MacArthur 's resolute handling of labour unrest and of the Communist party . |