Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops . |
| 2 | Hahnemann and his homoeopathy had already gained considerable prestige from his success in treating the typhus epidemic which swept into Europe in the wake of Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow in 1813 . |
| 3 | The British also had financial interests , were the principal users of the canal , and remembered Napoleon 's threat to India . |
| 4 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 5 | With Napoleon 's invasion of Spain it collapsed . |
| 6 | Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War . |
| 7 | Was it the last act of a popular drama begun at Aranjuez and thwarted by Napoleon 's desertion of Ferdinand and protection of Godoy , a revolution of disappointed vengeance , a revolution directed against Godoy 's creatures in the provincial administrations who now followed the French ? |
| 8 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 9 | HISTORY tells us that a large part of Napoleon 's attraction to Josephine pertained to smell . |
| 10 | Wordsworth and Coleridge were further alienated from France by Napoleon 's campaigns of conquest ; the subjugation of Switzerland in 1798 — Liberty suppressing Liberty — was the crowning irony which confirmed Wordsworth 's group in their suspicions of Napoleon . |
| 11 | Though enlightened Spaniards might detest the brutal deceit of Napoleon 's seizure of Spain they felt that perhaps he alone could regenerate her . |
| 12 | These include art and artefacts relating to Nelson , Wellington , Lord Byron , Keats , George IV 's spectacular coronation , the Baring bank ; Bullock furniture for Napoleon 's exile in St Helena , a Greek krater from the Hamilton Collection , a Wordsworth manuscript , Edmund Kean 's costume for Richard III , paintings by Constable , Turner , Wilkie and Landseer , and the ‘ Auto-Icon ’ , the stuffed seated figure of the reformer Jeremy Bentham . |
| 13 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |
| 14 | Napoleon 's house of exile , San Martino , is worth a visit , although Boney was quite frugal when it came to buying furniture , clearly having other things on his mind . |
| 15 | The lieutenant had then flown the banners of the king of France and the church of Le Puy over the barbican at Vic-de-Bigorre , and had refused to countenance Roger-Bernard 's protest on behalf of his sister-in-law . |
| 16 | They are a cold , northern intellectual 's idea of Venice . ’ |
| 17 | He would rather list the EPA 's concerns in order of priority , so that the agency can ‘ take aim before we open fire ’ . |
| 18 | A telling sign of misplaced priorities , in the eyes of many critics , is the EPA 's concentration on health . |
| 19 | The closely associated demands for precision and clarity of expression both follow naturally from the falsificationist 's account of science . |
| 20 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 21 | John Marsden , the borough 's director of education , said : ‘ Intruder alarm installations are installed in 142 education premises and are connected by means of a digital communicator to Sefton Security Force HQ in Bootle . |
| 22 | The borough 's director of housing and property , John Arthur Jones , said the talks centred on the needs of each side , as well as a programme for the renovation of the hall . |
| 23 | Instructor , John Burkert , describes Frankie 's aura of comedy . |
| 24 | The mouse lemur 's pattern of life focuses especially on the female 's feeding ecology , upon which the males dispersion is contingent . |
| 25 | As with Creature Comforts , Lowe Howard-Spink 's work for Tesco , which won the campaign of the year in services , was deemed by some to be beyond its first flush of freshness , but its impact on consumer perceptions continues to impress . |
| 26 | If you missed the special Butlin 's guide in Tuesday 's Daily Mirror make sure you get tomorrow 's for booking details and the special offer dates . |
| 27 | Here de Candolle 's concept of species being at war with one another , discussed at length by Lyell , must have allowed Darwin to see that the population of any species is always tending to expand into the surrounding territory , if necessary at the expense of the existing inhabitants . |
| 28 | Nursery owner Paul Hutchinson has been able to keep track of Wally 's progress through reports to police from startled motorists who spotted him hopping along roads in the area . |
| 29 | Eric Morecambe 's directorship at Luton was another example . |
| 30 | They found a theoretical perspective on the matter by developing Baur 's application of Hegel 's dialectic to church history . |