Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 2 | The Government 's response to the TGAT recommendations , given in the Parliamentary statement by the Secretary of State for Education and Science on 7 June 1988 , is set out in appendix 4 . |
| 3 | Mansion House constable , a feeble old man whom the Lord Mayor suggests as a Catholic 's defence against the Gordon rioters ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) . |
| 4 | SO HE left yesterday 's slaughter of the South Africans to others . |
| 5 | And so , the media was not kind after Sharon 's slaughter by the Manson disciples , hence Nicholson 's remark about Sharon having been murdered in the newspapers . |
| 6 | There was an obvious danger in such a situation — the danger that concern to keep down the compensation bill would affect the ministry 's judgement of the planning merits of particular cases . |
| 7 | Indeed , the very success of the Zimbabwean settlement , in line with repeated British withdrawals from colonial territories since the late 1950s , encouraged a growing impatience on Mrs Thatcher 's part with the consensus men of the Foreign Office and with Lord Carrington , its grandee incumbent . |
| 8 | Carl Condit 's description of the colour schemes and materials used in this sumptuous station can not be bettered : |
| 9 | Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened . |
| 10 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
| 11 | Caricature of Duncan Macrae in Robert Kemp 's adaptation of Sir David Lindsay 's Satyre of the Thrie Estaites for Sir Tyrone Guthrie 's production at the Edinburgh Festival , 1948 . |
| 12 | The acting text of Sir David Lindsay 's Satyre of the Thrie Estaites prepared by Robert Kemp for the production at the Edinburgh International Festival of 1948 was deposited by Mr David Kemp . |
| 13 | To the delight of both children , we learned it was just below this spot that Bram Stoker 's Dracula leapt ashore from his sinking ship in the shape of a huge black dog , and slept on a suicide 's grave among the abbey tombs . |
| 14 | Charles 's presence in the scene squares with evidence for comparable participation in public ritual by Charlemagne and Louis the Pious when aged six and three , respectively . |
| 15 | Thomas Coram 's revulsion at the infant corpses in London gutters led him to campaign for a hospital for foundlings , established in 1741 . |
| 16 | The Echo revealed yesterday how Reds ' boss Souness was considering whether to opt for Hooper 's experience in the Cup Winners ' Cup second round , second leg , knowing that in carrying a 4-2 defeat from Russia , his side can not afford to concede on home ground . |
| 17 | The Echo revealed yesterday how Reds ' boss Souness was considering whether to opt for Hooper 's experience in the Cup Winners ' Cup second round , second leg , knowing that in carrying a 4-2 defeat from Russia , his side can not afford to concede on home ground . |
| 18 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 19 | The pace then slackened , perhaps because rising prosperity eased some of the burdens ( and Henry VIII 's expropriation of the Church lands and assets eased the constraints on the king ) . |
| 20 | That there is considerable theory presupposed by the assertion , ‘ The electron beam was repelled by the North Pole of the magnet ’ , or by a psychiatrist 's talk of the withdrawal symptoms of a patient , should not need much arguing . |
| 21 | " Ringo 's accepted our proposal for repeating Wallace 's search with the Bugis pirates for the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 22 | Daniels , however , was content to spend the few short months of what remained of his life wearing Sarazen 's polo-coat in the Sandwich pubs , telling everyone how ‘ we won the Open at Prince 's ’ . |
| 23 | Exactly ! ’ said Penny Black the following evening , as she peeled off her jeans in the women 's changing-room at the University Sports Centre . |
| 24 | The Oxford University Student 's Union has expressed its disappointment at the Government 's action on the Student Loans Bill in the Commons last night . |
| 25 | Police rang them as they headed north after a friend 's wedding in the Home Counties . |
| 26 | It is logical then to proceed with Jean Packman 's research into the way decisions are made when children and young people , home life being temporarily or long term unable or unsuitable to sustain them , for whatever reason , are received into care — or , in spite of referrals and requests , not received . |
| 27 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 28 | Ashley ( later Lord Shaftesbury ) wrote with regard to women 's labour in the cotton mills : |
| 29 | On the one hand , J89 , as the project was known , seemed to seal Vauxhall 's return from the car manufacturers ' junkyard — a good business story . |
| 30 | On the one hand , Kitzbuhel is Austria 's queen of the travel brochures ; a walled , medieval town offering lederhosen , dirndl skirts , fig-flavoured coffee and konditorei cream-cake . |