Example sentences of "[noun] 's [adj] [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 | On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall ; I climbed the wall and found that underneath the trees were hundreds of moss-covered gravestones of soldiers from Napoleon 's Imperial Army who had died of disease while waiting to invade England . |
| 3 | The Hotel Napoleon 's genteel bar |
| 4 | George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were both born here , and the James Joyce Museum , at Sandycove Point , is housed in one of the Martello towers build to defend Ireland from Napoleon 's threatened invasion . |
| 5 | In the period of his presidency Louis Napoleon 's principal concern was to maximize his domestic authority in order to prepare the ground for turning himself into Napoleon III . |
| 6 | The château of Chalais has been a stronghold of the Talleyrands from that day to this , and when Pound in recent years read about Napoleon 's grand chamberlain , notably in the memoirs of Madame de Rémusat ( a principal source for Canto 101 ) , this new association with Chalais re-activated his memories of that place , which accordingly is named afresh , bringing ‘ Aubeterre ’ with it , but in a quite different tone and spirit from ‘ to set here the roads of France ’ . |
| 7 | He assailed other reactionary regimes sanctified by Napoleon 's final defeat , prior to which he toured the Continent . |
| 8 | Napoleon 's military victories , for example , might just have to be attributed to his genius ; Britain 's adherence to a monetarist economic policy throughout 1881 might in the end rest on Margaret Thatcher 's supreme obstinacy . |
| 9 | But as Napoleon 's initial conquests and later defeats made European countries aware of their own traditional arts , so choreographers , like . |
| 10 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
| 11 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 12 | This is an area where WSL 's long years of work on mineral handling and other processes give it an edge . |
| 13 | Daley beat Mabbutt and Cundy in the 86th minute to score Villa 's fourth and , a minute from the end , Regis completed Tottenham humiliation after brushing off a Bergsson 's weak challenge . |
| 14 | If it feels like an extreme observation — and , in parts , not unprescient for the great financial débâcles of the nineteenth and late twentieth centuries — Johnson was also voicing an intellectual 's fashionable enquiry into the lastingness of common interest . |
| 15 | The EPA 's conditional approval is also likely to be challenged by the Natural Resources Defense Council which claims that weapons plant wastes are potentially explosive and liable to migrate . |
| 16 | An example was the recent revelation at congressional hearings that some of the EPA 's political appointees based in Washington directed the Chicago regional office in 1981 to delete incriminating references to the Dow Chemical Company in a report on dioxin contamination of Michigan waters . |
| 17 | The EPA 's political situation hardly compares with Watergate . |
| 18 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 19 | ‘ Each month approximately 300 new requests are made for an occupational therapist assessment and this level of demand far outstrips the borough 's available resources . ’ |
| 20 | But the borough 's environmental health committee was told yesterday that the outbreak , which has been sweeping the region , is slowing down . |
| 21 | I am concerned here merely to reconstruct a broad outline of the borough 's socio-economic character . |
| 22 | St Helens won both age groups last year and two of the girls who starred for them then Sue Smith and Rebecca Smith will be returning with that borough 's under-14 side . |
| 23 | An exhibition at Gunnesbury Park Museum to highlight the borough 's cultural mix is also planned . |
| 24 | Examples could include Hampshire County Council 's Coastal Strategy and Sefton Metropolitan Borough 's coastal planning and management policies . |
| 25 | Grimes 's misanthropy is a proper match for the Borough 's small-minded respectability . |
| 26 | NEWTOWNABBEY Council is to be asked to throw its weight behind a campaign to save one of the borough 's best-loved beauty spots from the threat of being turned into a site for housing . |
| 27 | These social workers were based in the borough 's Special Services Team . |
| 28 | Phaidon 's main offerings will be Masaccio and Masolino by Paul Joannides ( £95 ) and Fra Filippo Lippi by Jeffrey Ruda ( £95 ) , both catalogues raisonne with extensive commentaries . |
| 29 | The trip was made all the worse by Frankie 's morbid fear of flying . |
| 30 | I do n't think Frankie 's radical intentions are in doubt . |