Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former Methodist minister from Victoria and a leading member of the ALP 's left wing , Howe 's appointment was widely interpreted as a reward for the left 's support of Hawke in the leadership contest . |
| 2 | Mubarak confirmed that Assad was now willing to renew contact with Yassir Arafat , chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but stated that many obstacles still remained to prevent an early reconciliation between Assad and Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein , between whom a bitter personal rift existed due to Syria 's support of Iran in the Gulf War . |
| 3 | ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel . |
| 4 | Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue . |
| 5 | Certainly there is Biblical precedent for splashing out on special occasions — Martha 's anointing of Jesus with the expensive ointment could easily be used as a justification for spraying around a little champagne to hansel a special occasion . |
| 6 | For instance , the ‘ syntactically brusque beginning of the poem ’ ( a nominal sentence without any kind of introduction ) corresponds to the violent , irrational character of Jupiter 's rape of Leda in the guise of a swan . |
| 7 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |
| 8 | Shortly after the Soviet Union 's invasion of Afghanistan at the end of 1979 , the Western alliance decided to deploy new intermediate range nuclear missiles in Europe . |
| 9 | Brutus 's choice of Caesar as the serpent 's egg is selected as the suitable formulation of the equation between Caesar and serpents Brutus has been toying with throughout . |
| 10 | The 29-year-old Widnes maestro was forced to pull out of Great Britain 's tour of Australasia in the summer because of a persistent groin strain and said : ‘ I feel the injury can only get worse over the next couple of months . ’ . |
| 11 | Where is Labour 's vision of Europe in the year 2000 , weaving together political , security , economic and industrial issues ? |
| 12 | There is a backwards movement in saying No , which can be a slight withdrawal of head and shoulders ; a more emphatic shake of the head perhaps accompanied by the hand pushing away an undesirable request or person , e.g. Juliet 's rejection of Paris in the Bedroom scene . |
| 13 | The same goes for St Rita 's Hospital of Lebowa with the surrounding villages of Kwandebele . |
| 14 | From here we had immense views , northwards across Ras Kassa 's province of Salale towards the Blue Nile gorge , or southwards to the distant Arussi mountains . |
| 15 | The Americans viewed de Gaulle 's assumption of France as the delusion of an egotist with fascistic tendencies . |
| 16 | X/Open , which has already endorsed the Network File System component of ONC seems unlikely to recognise Sun 's version of RPC at the moment — although the DCE agreement does not preclude it — but says it will ensure ‘ co-existence and interoperability ’ between the two , though it has n't figured out how it will do this yet . |
| 17 | And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy . |
| 18 | Millais 's painting of Christ in the House of his Parents was deeply offensive to Dickens , apparently because its workaday imperfections implied a far from Holy Family . |
| 19 | ‘ The Chinese people have incurred great sufferings from Japan 's militarism , and so have the Japanese people , ’ said Jiang , recalling the ‘ severe damage ’ to relations caused by Japan 's occupation of China in the thirties . |
| 20 | Their studies have also led to some surprising conclusions concerning chronology : Jacopo Bellini 's Paris album they have argued , contrary to most of the literature , precedes the London album , which they date to 1460–70 ; they have been able to date Paolino Veneto 's Map of Venice in the Marciana Library precisely to around 1328 , when previously it was thought to have been made in the second half of the century . |
| 21 | The government reviewed its relations with Taiwan , but decided to maintain its current policy of recognizing only the People 's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China , acknowledging China 's claim that Taiwan constituted a province of the mainland . |
| 22 | Cuba voted against Washington on several African motions , for example on Algerian independence , but abstained on crucial issues such as the admission of the people 's Republic of China to the United Nations . |
| 23 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 24 | States could choose to join the Soviet Union or the people 's Republic of China in the non-market part of the world economy . |
| 25 | The country 's official name was changed from the People 's Republic of Benin to the Republic of Benin . |
| 26 | On Nov. 21 , according to the Chinese Xinhua news agency , 67 per cent of the deputies voted to change the country 's name from the People 's Republic of Mongolia to the Republic of Mongolia . |
| 27 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 12 October : His Excellency Senhor Luis Neto-Kiambata was received in audience by The Prince of Wales and The Prince Edward , Counsellors of State acting on behalf of The Queen , and presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Credence as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the People 's Republic of Angola to the Court of St James 's . |
| 28 | Central to the amendments was the changing of the country 's official name from the People 's Republic of Angola to the Republic of Angola . |
| 29 | THEATRE / Contrary to nature : Randall Stevenson on John Pope 's production of Macbeth at the Citizens ' Theatre in Glasgow |
| 30 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |