Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer 's emphasis on the struggle against the environment as the driving force of progress thus helped to create the popular image of ‘ Darwinism ’ . |
| 2 | Vivian Bone was appointed acting secretary , and in a bold move , the University decided that when making a permanent appointment , it would split Mr Spencer 's post on the industrial model of a chief executive and a chairman . |
| 3 | Admiring Durkheim 's stress on the need for community , Eliot wrote that , ‘ For the savage or the civilized man , a solely individual existence would be intolerable : he feels the need of recreating and sustaining his strength by periodic refuge in another consciousness which is supra-individual . |
| 4 | I thought of the horse 's silhouette on the far bank , and the quiet splosh as the eel-fishermen cast off . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 6 | His caddie instead is ‘ Baldrick ’ , Richard Owens from Sleaford who got his nickname from Hare 's request on the practice ground for more ammunition . |
| 7 | His caddie instead is ‘ Baldrick ’ , Richard Owens from Sleaford who got his nickname from Hare 's request on the practice ground for more ammunition . |
| 8 | One interesting side effect of the fire in Ankh-Morpork concerns the inn-sewer-ants policy , which left the city through the ravaged roof of the Broken Drum , was wafted high into the discworld 's atmosphere on the ensuing thermal , and came to earth several days and a few thousand miles away on an uloruaha bush in the beTrobi islands . |
| 9 | The Senate ( upper house ) also voted on Jan. 16 to support Mitterrand 's policy on the Gulf by 290 votes to 25 with two abstentions . |
| 10 | As far as the Greek stage is concerned , Schelling 's emphasis on the hero is bound to entail a diminution of interest in the chorus , that problematic but inescapable feature of ancient drama . |
| 11 | In Tuesday 's report on the High Court case , the name of the fifth bank was wrongly given by the court as Mitsubishi Finance Corporation . |
| 12 | Until yesterday , these would have seen Barnes deployed on one flank with Rocastle 's defensive awareness earning him a ninth cap at Waddle 's expense on the other . |
| 13 | Mum had taken to her bed in Jean 's place on the day she left our house , and she had n't got up since . |
| 14 | I was even happier to discover from John McCready 's article on The Farm that it was called ‘ Natural Thing ’ by Innocence . |
| 15 | True , redemption dues were abolished , and Stolypin 's attack on the commune broadened the labour market and encouraged trade in land . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal upheld the defendant 's conviction on the basis that a purchaser would understand the description " new " to indicate that the vehicle had had no previous registered keeper . |
| 17 | I helped her a rearrange the Lady Eleanor 's body on the bed , drawing the curtains around it . |
| 18 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 19 | Any review of the makings of this conflict must take account of the wider world in which the belligerents lived , of which some of the more important features were : the rivalry of the superpowers ; the Arab-Israeli conflict ; Islamic resurgence ; the struggle for Arab world dominance ; the world of oil and the emergence of OPEC ; the Kurds ; the political evolution of the Gulf states ; Turkey and Afghanistan 's position on the fringe of events ; and the vicissitudes of the US dollar . |
| 20 | He had leapt with ease over the fearsome Becher 's Brook on the second circuit , but he was tiring and had no jockey to keep him going . |
| 21 | The Inland Revenue 's policy on the allocation of overpayments of tax against underpayments , and the interest consequences thereof , have been published in an appendix to the notes of a meeting between the Revenue and the Institute 's Tax Faculty ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 90 ) . |
| 22 | Martin Dodsworth ( Knaresborough ) stick floated maggot during a heavy snow storm to win his club 's match on the Nidd . |
| 23 | Similarly , Marshall Sahlins 's work on the Hawaiian islanders in his Islands of History , though far more acutely aware of contending multiple narratives trying to ascribe different significances to the same happenings , is also organised so that it allows Sahlins to present a narrative wherein conflicting stories/histories are mapped out in a framework which explores these histories ' interpenetrations , their assimilations of each other rather than their refusals of each other . |
| 24 | The S2 provides high torque throughout the rev range , allowing you to apply confident bursts of speed when overtaking , its ‘ ground effect ’ technology tightening the car 's grip on the road as you 're accelerating . |
| 25 | Then he 'd gone into Belfast with the samples and had cracked the car 's exhaust on the ramps outside a police station . |
| 26 | The suggestion that it is a self-portrait is strengthened by evidence from David 's letter on the Salon of 1819 . |
| 27 | Rain said not quite , and enquired how Emelda 's book on the subjection of Italian women was going . |
| 28 | The ICI team pinned its hopes for the programme 's success on the untried gas-liquid reactions . |
| 29 | Sharon Ross-Giverson is the programme 's co-ordinator on the Copenhagen side . |
| 30 | At the same time Gregory 's emphasis on the civil wars tends to divert attention from the very real achievements made by the Merovingians in keeping the peace . |