Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may help to increase the bladder 's capacity . |
| 2 | This will help them to become sensitive to the bladder 's warning signals . |
| 3 | Elgin 's roof-leads , with those of Aberdeen Cathedral , went to the bottom of the sea when the ship foundered on a voyage to Holland , and Johnson invited every reader to ‘ rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost ’ . |
| 4 | Elgin 's wood |
| 5 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 6 | Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops . |
| 7 | We both knew of Napoleon 's retreat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 10 | The harnessing of the team and the uniforms of the postillions are covered in detail in the instructions accompanying the Historex model of another of Napoleon 's coaches , a berline coupé . |
| 11 | The large leather-covered trunk at the rear ( here displayed with an equestrian figure of the emperor placed upon it ) contained Napoleon 's bedding . |
| 12 | It was this continuous resistance , feeble though it often was , which broke Napoleon 's doctrine of maximum concentration in the attempt to solve the contradictory demands of operation and occupation in a hostile countryside . |
| 13 | However , the claim to universal liberty was the justification of Napoleon 's attempt to conquer Europe , not the right of France to control the Continent ( on the other hand , Napoleon 's armies did little to change the inherited social structure of the areas they conquered ) . |
| 14 | Napoleon 's armies handled the Prussians very roughly every time they met , and at the battle of Jena in 1806 a whole series of Prussian myths had evaporated in defeat . |
| 15 | The British also had financial interests , were the principal users of the canal , and remembered Napoleon 's threat to India . |
| 16 | In 1793 Britain set up a Board of Agriculture to promote the growing of potatoes to counter Napoleon 's threat to starve this country into submission . |
| 17 | Since negotiations failed and the rebellion , once supported by England , could only be defeated by increasing injections of Napoleon 's soldiers and money , the ideal of an independent civil government appealing to hearts , in Joseph 's phrase , was rejected by the emperor and his generals who knew no law but military necessity . |
| 18 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 19 | Napoleon 's portrait is on the obverse and , on the other side is the Arc de Triomphe , the focal point of Paris 's streets . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With Napoleon 's invasion of Spain it collapsed . |
| 22 | Both themes were present in Napoleon 's invasion for he hoped to strike a blow against Britain 's control of India by cutting the short overland route across the isthmus from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea , and also to develop new trading opportunities for France in the eastern Mediterranean . |
| 23 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 24 | The piece , which has not been traced , told the story of Napoleon 's exile and death on St Helena ; its butt and villain was the English governor of the island , Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1769–1844 ) , and the characters included Napoleon 's physician , Dr Francesco Antommarchi ( 1780–1838 ) . |
| 25 | We are delighted to welcome to our pages the distinguished French military painter M Eugène Lelièpvre , who illustrates Tony de la Poer 's second article on Napoleon 's Waterloo carriages . |
| 26 | Phaeton 's Chariot(s) : The Mystery of Napoleon 's Waterloo Carriage ( 2 ) |
| 27 | It was the belief of Chaptal , Napoleon 's Minister , that the attempt to create a colonial market came too late . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Napoleon 's dormeuse , number 389 , built by Goeting during April 1815 . |