Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment exposed more effectively than Labour 's pragmatic programme the sectional basis of the Alliance appeal , and the potentially harsh realities of ‘ efficiency and economy ’ in public expenditure . |
| 2 | THE Queen and the Princess of Wales are to be the guests at Saturday 's wedding of the princess 's close friend the Hon Harry Herbert when he marries Chica Bevan at Highclere Castle , the seat of his father , the Queen 's racing manager the Earl of Carnarvon . |
| 3 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 4 | Using the six subject areas adopted for grouping the Council 's previous provision the diagram below compares the responses for Phases 1 and 2 . |
| 5 | In the subsidiary 's financial statements the bonds should therefore be accounted for as debt . |
| 6 | Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air . |
| 7 | To the boy 's worried parents the whole scene which ended in the exclusivity of an intensive care unit must have been a Faustian nightmare . |
| 8 | ULSTER 's top karate experts have given the sport 's governing body the chop . |
| 9 | It is not clear at what ( spreading ) radius greater than a bolide 's initial radius the collective bow-shock approximation breaks down . |
| 10 | In Champagne 's chilly climate the fermentation process would stop when winter took its grip , probably before all the grape sugars had been converted to alcohol , but certainly before any malo-lactic fermentation could naturally occur . |
| 11 | The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses . |
| 12 | THE AUDITOR 'S ON-GOING CONCERN The APB and the Cadbury Committee want to extend auditor responsibility . |
| 13 | Lady Thatcher , an Oxford graduate , was originally proposed for an honorary degree in 1985 but members of the university 's ruling body the Congregation voted down the idea in protest at her Government 's handling of education . |
| 14 | At the town 's eastern extremity the idiosyncratic Thomas Read Kemp began in 1823 to create another self-contained unit , Kemp Town , to centre round a magnificent crescent . |
| 15 | Thus , when the trustees applied the dividend monies for the benefit of the actor 's minor children the actor was held to be taxable upon the same . |
| 16 | But we do keep going the wages for the crews are paid , the ships go for their refits , and in the Ingard group 's annual report the ships are shown as making quite a lot of money — more than we used to make in the old days . |
| 17 | Instead you should massage to the body 's natural outlets the tips of the fingers , the ends of the toes and the base of the spine . |
| 18 | Yet even under the Chinaman 's cheerful protection the second night was little improvement on the first . |
| 19 | No doubt as the matrimonial home was in the husband 's sole name the wife will have registered her right of occupation by way of a Class F Land Charge or ( if registered title ) a notice under the terms of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 . |
| 20 | The first point was given by the hon. Gentleman 's hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) on 26 March in an interview on the ’ Today ’ programme . |
| 21 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 22 | Among the guests were , whose husband had returned to America the previous day ; , and I met my host and hostess 's charming son the Hon. |
| 23 | The Landlord shall procure that prior to the issue of the Certificate of Practical Completion there shall be delivered to the Tenant collateral warranty agreements signed by or on behalf of the Architect the Landlord 's structural engineers the Landlord 's Contractors and the Landlord 's Surveyors such collateral warranty agreements to be in the form of the drafts annexed hereto |
| 24 | Grave and reserved at the vicious court of his drunken , slobbering but affable father , he at first resented but then became emotionally dependent on the King 's ebullient favourite the Duke of Buckingham . |
| 25 | Maté and I now stood at the junction of the cathedral 's great T. The vertical limb of this overpowering architectural masterpiece sloped downwards . |
| 26 | In general , in the authority 's industrialized areas the emphasis in pollution control is on cleaning up heavily polluted rivers . |
| 27 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
| 28 | The choice of marine rather than aerospace technology makes the British Hovercraft Corporation 's new ferry the quietest and cheapest yet . |
| 29 | The purpose of exhibit two , the Santa Fe International Corporation 's pipe-laying craft The Apache was certainly made clear . |
| 30 | In September 1990 the respondent appeared with his new employer at the wholesale locksmith 's , and during the sales assistant 's brief absence the respondent helped himself to a key-cutting machine from stock . |