Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the mask of mob rule and anarchy was replaced by the naked face of despotism , and eventually it gave way to Napoleon 's personal image of collectivism : an imperial militarism . |
| 2 | On top of the hill was a wood of beech trees surrounded by a stone wall ; I climbed the wall and found that underneath the trees were hundreds of moss-covered gravestones of soldiers from Napoleon 's Imperial Army who had died of disease while waiting to invade England . |
| 3 | The Hotel Napoleon 's genteel bar |
| 4 | Parma became renowned for its elegance during the reign of Maria Luigia , Napoleon 's second wife , daughter of the Emperor of Austria and mother of the King of Rome , when she was Duchess of Parma , Piacenza and Guastalla ; although it had already been famous under the Farnese and the Bourbons . |
| 5 | George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were both born here , and the James Joyce Museum , at Sandycove Point , is housed in one of the Martello towers build to defend Ireland from Napoleon 's threatened invasion . |
| 6 | In the period of his presidency Louis Napoleon 's principal concern was to maximize his domestic authority in order to prepare the ground for turning himself into Napoleon III . |
| 7 | The château of Chalais has been a stronghold of the Talleyrands from that day to this , and when Pound in recent years read about Napoleon 's grand chamberlain , notably in the memoirs of Madame de Rémusat ( a principal source for Canto 101 ) , this new association with Chalais re-activated his memories of that place , which accordingly is named afresh , bringing ‘ Aubeterre ’ with it , but in a quite different tone and spirit from ‘ to set here the roads of France ’ . |
| 8 | He assailed other reactionary regimes sanctified by Napoleon 's final defeat , prior to which he toured the Continent . |
| 9 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
| 10 | Daley beat Mabbutt and Cundy in the 86th minute to score Villa 's fourth and , a minute from the end , Regis completed Tottenham humiliation after brushing off a Bergsson 's weak challenge . |
| 11 | If it feels like an extreme observation — and , in parts , not unprescient for the great financial débâcles of the nineteenth and late twentieth centuries — Johnson was also voicing an intellectual 's fashionable enquiry into the lastingness of common interest . |
| 12 | The EPA 's conditional approval is also likely to be challenged by the Natural Resources Defense Council which claims that weapons plant wastes are potentially explosive and liable to migrate . |
| 13 | The EPA 's political situation hardly compares with Watergate . |
| 14 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 15 | But the borough 's environmental health committee was told yesterday that the outbreak , which has been sweeping the region , is slowing down . |
| 16 | I am concerned here merely to reconstruct a broad outline of the borough 's socio-economic character . |
| 17 | St Helens won both age groups last year and two of the girls who starred for them then Sue Smith and Rebecca Smith will be returning with that borough 's under-14 side . |
| 18 | An exhibition at Gunnesbury Park Museum to highlight the borough 's cultural mix is also planned . |
| 19 | Examples could include Hampshire County Council 's Coastal Strategy and Sefton Metropolitan Borough 's coastal planning and management policies . |
| 20 | Grimes 's misanthropy is a proper match for the Borough 's small-minded respectability . |
| 21 | NEWTOWNABBEY Council is to be asked to throw its weight behind a campaign to save one of the borough 's best-loved beauty spots from the threat of being turned into a site for housing . |
| 22 | The trip was made all the worse by Frankie 's morbid fear of flying . |
| 23 | But the question remains — was Frankie 's undoubted popularity subversive ? |
| 24 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 25 | And she knew absolutely everything , which must have made her particularly disappointed in Frankie 's slow progress at school . |
| 26 | If pop is a sign of its times , then Frankie 's social message during the key political struggle of the 1980s was decidedly oblique . |
| 27 | Snooker fan 's sick obsession |
| 28 | This last from Hussa , the Sheikha 's great friend and lady-in-waiting . |
| 29 | She had been a wet-nurse for the Sheikha 's youngest child , her daughter . |
| 30 | ONE OF THE BEST political programmes of the campaign , World in Action 's triple interrogation of the party leaders on ITV , coincided with one of the best non-political programmes of the week . |