Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] 's [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picturesque taste certainly had its satirists : William Combe 's poem The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque ( 1809 ) is one example . |
| 2 | During Richard Webb 's time the large , gabled clothier 's house was built . |
| 3 | The Western view of the Khmer Rouge has been encapsulated in the title of David Puttnam 's film The Killing Fields . |
| 4 | Acceptance by the left of the basic parameters of the mixed economy was exemplified by Antony Crosland 's book The Future of Socialism , published in 1956 . |
| 5 | Is that snow wind 's whine the same |
| 6 | Less of a surprise was Edward Adeane 's departure the very next day . |
| 7 | Then after tea in the town hall and a quick break at home , the day climaxed with a trip to the Civic Theatre to see Roald Dahl 's tale The Big Friendly Giant . |
| 8 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 9 | Dear old Joe simply could not believe his eyes when he and I entered Miss Havisham 's room the next day . |
| 10 | We can certainly take this point : on David Frost 's programme the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East did not have a thought in his head about the phasing in of any of those changes . |
| 11 | In the seventy years which have elapsed since the publication of Miss Buckland 's book the tomato has taken its revenge for three centuries of neglect . |
| 12 | In Gen. Khan 's absence the Army leadership apparently divided into " neutralist " and pro-Ershad camps , with members of the former group openly refusing to act against rioting students . |
| 13 | Under David Atherton 's direction the Coliseum presentation fizzes musically from first to last . |
| 14 | After Saturday morning 's clean-up the 11 set out a plastic patio table and chairs , and were helped by town mayor Jackie Pell to stage the birthday party in the river . |
| 15 | Two or three days after Miss Bedwelty 's visit the team found that nobody pressed them to practise anything , nothing was said about another riding lesson and life was refreshingly peaceful . |
| 16 | Mozart had received several new commissions : an opera for Milan for 1772 , an oratorio , La Betulia liberata , for Padua , and a serenata for performance in Milan in October 1771 to celebrate the marriage of Maria Theresia 's son the Archduke Ferdinand . |
| 17 | However , he said that he himself could not prescribe it , and it would all depend on the Christie consultant 's view the next time we saw him . |
| 18 | But 9 months after Warden Sparrow 's death the collection 's being sold off . |
| 19 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 20 | Despite the lawlessness and corruption , Grigoriev has achieved some notable successes , including Edvard Radzinsky 's book The Last Tsar now a Book of the Month Club choice in the UK and Larissa Vasilieva 's Kremlin Wives , which sold 450,000 copies in Russia and is soon to be published here by Weidenfeld and Nicholson . |
| 21 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 22 | On the less dramatic level , we can see in Dr Scott 's account the more usual performance of mystery — the acceptance of responsibility by mere presence . |
| 23 | The Case did not appear to play an important part in the process of decision making in the House of Lords during the period under review ( 1957 to 1973 ) in Alan Paterson 's book The Law Lords , which indicates that both counsel and the Law Lords in practice diminished the effect of the written Case in the arguing of the appeal ( Paterson , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Consequently F. Sherwood-Taylor 's book The young chemist was soon located on the public library shelves . |
| 25 | This border is just one of 30 new designs in Amelia Saint George 's book The Needlepoint & Cross-Stitch Book ( £16.99 , Conran Octopus ) which includes themes such as fruit , butterflies , roses , ribbons , animals and berries — all designed and embroidered by the author . |
| 26 | Theatre companies taking part in Mayfest will include the Traverse company from Edinburgh with Tom McGrath 's new play Buchanan , Pigsback from Dublin with Gavin Kostick 's play The Ash Fire and the Tron Theatre-Dundee Rep co-production of Macbeth with Iain Glen in the title role . |
| 27 | The subject is covered extremely well in both W G L Knight 's book The Acquisition of Private Companies and I Paterson 's Private Company Share Sale Manual . |
| 28 | Readers of William Cooper 's novel The Struggles of Albert Woods will remember the frantic indignation this caused . |
| 29 | Just as the most penetrating analysis of the human problems behind double blind drug trials is to be found not in any treatise of medical ethics but in John Rowan Wilson 's novel The Double Blind ( 1961 ) , so the stern and rigorous standards of experimental science are uniquely illustrated in Arrowsmith . |
| 30 | In Mr Foley 's view the idea that high corporate gearing is responsible for holding back economic recovery is misleading , since companies on average were not particularly heavily indebted when the recession began and have subsequently reduced their borrowing levels . |