Example sentences of "[noun prp] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the international recession , the debt crisis , and the protectionist reaction to the NICs ' success raised doubts about whether the 1970s strategy is still the best . |
| 2 | Changing tides and climate , new demands and general wear and tear are eroding Venices ' foundation . |
| 3 | The Zeppelins ' glory was short-lived – well-documented disaster , but in the 1930s the most romantic of all planes , the flying-boat , came to the fore . |
| 4 | Nicholsons ' pubs for the most part are architectural gems in their own right and include The Blackfriar and The Argyll Arms in Central London and the Prince Alfred in Maida Vale amongst their number . |
| 5 | William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation . |
| 6 | Its author , perhaps a canon of St Florent , wrote after the death of Supplicius II , castellan of Amboise , to warn later generations of the family that a repetition of Supplicius ' acts of disloyalty towards his overlords might ruin the family . |
| 7 | This currently accounts for around two thirds of P&O Roadtanks ' UK business and involves long term contracts of between three and five years . |
| 8 | P&O Roadtanks ' safety record is excellent but if one of their vehicles gets into trouble — be it breakdown , crash or spillage — police and fire services can quickly make contact with key personnel who are on call day or night . |
| 9 | The Moorings ' holidays offered through Caribbean Connection range from fully crewed charter to combined hotel and sailing holidays where you stay at an hotel on Tortola or St Lucia , either learning to sail or combining the pleasures of a beach holiday with sailing . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , during October of 1756 , Anthony Tissington of Alfreton in Derbyshire , set men to work at Coniston on the westerly edge of the sett , that part which became known as Paddies ' End . |
| 11 | This figure ( about 18,830 tons ) does not include ore mined above the ever lengthening Deep Adit Level , or the numerous other adits such as Fleming 's , Taylor 's , Grey Crag , Middle , Top , Gaunt 's , or Kernal — the last five being at Paddies ' End . |
| 12 | Now climbeth Tamora Olympus ' top , |
| 13 | There will be displays featuring four-colour p.o.s. in 250 bookshops and garden centres ; there are two competitions , one through all outlets and one through W H Smith 's Bookcase magazine , to win cruises ; and leaflets about the series will go into the RHS ' Garden magazine . |
| 14 | Similarly , theologians such as Schleiermacher had moved away from the idea of a miracle as a supernatural intervention in the normal processes of nature , and were in essential harmony with Strauss ' conclusions . |
| 15 | The first ran up to Strauss ' Life of Jesus , and struggled with the question whether the supernatural and miraculous elements in the gospels should be accepted . |
| 16 | George Fawcett , one of Sam 's sons and now in his seventies , also has keen recall of his boyhood days working as a beater under his father 's orders , Sir Emmanuel , as the owner or West Birk Hatt , was the Fawcetts ' landlord . |
| 17 | Here , for the first time , Mozart demonstrated to the full his superlative skill in making music a medium for the expression of human emotions — in such highlights as Ilia 's aria ‘ Padre , germani , addio ’ , which expresses her conflict between love for her enemy and duty to her native country ; Idomeneus ' aria ‘ Fuor del mar ’ , in which the king describes how , although he is physically safe , his mind is still storm-tossed by dark forebodings ; and the masterly quartet ‘ Andrò rammingo e solo ’ — one of the great operatic ensembles of all time — in which four characters all express different emotions . |
| 18 | The true social and environmental costs of this form of extraction should be reflected in new planning guidance that lays down demanding criteria , based on Flowers ' recommendations , that would need to be satisfied before planning permission could be justified . |
| 19 | For a moment she could n't believe she had actually struck , then she stared in horrified fascination at the dark red stain spreading diagonally across de Raimes ' belly and down to his thigh . |
| 20 | De Raimes ' voice lost some of its smooth mockery . |
| 21 | De Raimes ' smile broadened . |
| 22 | The entrance to de Raimes ' castle was a death trap , no less . |
| 23 | Unless de Raimes ' castle was falling down by itself , he was under attack from someone , and if no one came for her she could be buried alive , forgotten , trapped in the darkness until death overcame her . |
| 24 | De Raimes ' breath hissed out and he cuffed the man working over him . |
| 25 | De Raimes ' eyes narrowed as her meaning sank in . |
| 26 | Sounds of fighting could still be heard from the far side of the bailey , but it was easily apparent that de Raimes ' men were outnumbered and outclassed . |
| 27 | But that was not the whole of the Webbs ' criticism of Owen 's grand project for the reconstitution of the economy as a set of nationwide industrial co-operatives , one for each trade or industry . |
| 28 | And since that assumption is implicit in the Webbs ' criticism of Owen , it can not be understood too clearly that on their argument there can be no place at all for industrial co-operatives , properly so-called : no place , because the ownership , whether individual or collective , of an industrial co-operative rests in the people working in it . |
| 29 | First , as a criticism of the sheer impracticability of the grandiose project Owen had in 1833 put to the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes and which still survived in the objectives though not in the activities of its even shorter-lived successor , the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , the Webbs ' case succeeds . |
| 30 | As for the Webbs ' insistence on the separate and restricted role for trade unionism , the practical effect was , once again , to abandon industrial democracy , to accept that the rights of working people at work remained the rights inhering in the property they owned : their labour , and nothing more . |