Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems to be a struggle , which Milton perhaps did not intend , between the reader 's response to Satan as a powerful and convincing character and the way in which one should react to such a malevolent force . |
| 2 | I wonder what was heaven 's response to Henry of Winchester when he achieved the bishopric ? |
| 3 | Then she remembered she 'd put the children 's money for Monday on one side already , and Rory had collected his shoes from the menders . |
| 4 | Denied effective legal counsel prior to his indictment , Stewart 's trial at Inveraray in September 1752 was a travesty of justice . |
| 5 | Mardon , who began a week 's trial at Anfield on Monday , suffered an ankle ligament injury during training which will sideline him for two weeks . |
| 6 | Goebbels 's eulogy of Hitler in an article in Das Reich on 31 December was said to have been well received by ‘ only a few people 's comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters ’ . |
| 7 | Searching for fossils on Fitzwilliam 's estates at Castor in 1821 , he discovered a large tessellated Roman pavement ; this encouraged him to conduct a series of excavations , unusually systematic for their time , which continued until 1827 . |
| 8 | Churchill 's Iron Curtain speech in March 1946 at Fulton , Missouri , and Montgomery 's discussions in September with the American Joint Chiefs of Staff , on the Potomac river in the yacht Sequoia , articulated the threat and laid the foundations for Anglo-American cooperation in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 9 | The English fought on foot at Hastings , and although they certainly used horses for transport , they may normally have fought on foot ; Henry I 's knights at Tinchebrai in 1106 also dismounted , owing to the nature of the battlefield . |
| 10 | The same was true in Normandy , where Henry II 's concession to Rouen between 1160 and 1170 , soon to be a model for other cities across the Angevin empire , permitted internal self-government by a mayor and town council , but also allowed the duke to choose the mayor from a list of three names submitted to him by the council , and protected the ducal right to military service . |
| 11 | Roman had talks with Moldavan President Mircea Snegur and Prime Minister Valery Muravshi on Sept. 7 , while Iliescu reaffirmed Romania 's support for Moldova in a radio broadcast on Sept. 11 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A barter deal with Iran , which would reduce Ukraine 's reliance on Russia for fuel supplies , was announced on Jan. 29 . |
| 15 | English ports and the Bayonnais together provided ships in which Bordeaux 's wine was carried , and England 's reliance on Aquitaine for wine — for both liturgical and secular consumption — helped to give birth to an English mercantile marine . |
| 16 | Roland 's stand at Roncevalles against the Moslem army and El Cid 's long campaign against the Moorish occupation of Spain vaunted the virtuous defence of Christendom . |
| 17 | The Gulf states showed their appreciation for Syria 's stand against Iraq by providing large amounts of money , ostensibly to offset loss of remittances from Kuwait . |
| 18 | COLIN Montgomerie was yesterday fined £1,000 and told to get his act together by the European Tour chief executive , Ken Schofield , who was upset by his fellow-Scot 's criticism of the King 's Course at Agadir in last week 's Moroccan Open . |
| 19 | THE Brazilian Soccer Confederation has filed a suit against the supporter who shot the signal flare in the Brazil v Chile World Cup game , seeking about £16,000 for costs incurred in defending Brazil 's case before Fifa in Zurich . |
| 20 | Docklands historians say it was first shipped out to thirsty expats in the Far East from Hodgson 's brewery in Bow in 1734 . |
| 21 | The news agency Interfax reported on July 5 that at a joint meeting the two opposition movements , Birlik and Erk , had decided on joint action , acknowledging that the differences in approach between them since Erk 's split from Birlik in late 1989 had played into the hands of the government . |
| 22 | It is already known that Strauss worked to a system of keys associated with particular characters and situations , but Professor Gilliam identifies his primary concern in Elektra as ‘ establishing a sense of motivic continuity in the orchestral line ’ , thus lending extra point to Strauss 's description of Salome as ‘ a symphony in the medium of drama ’ . |
| 23 | See Dentdale in summer when the hay meadows are on fire with wild flowers and the roadsides are crowded with the pale lilac of the bell flowers and you will find it hard to disagree with one early writer 's description of Dentdale as " an earthly paradise " , even if it does have a vampire buried in its churchyard . |
| 24 | When one considers Godwin 's illustration ( Fig. 38 ) and Disraeli 's description in Sybil of such a room , where the loom is placed centrally ‘ so as to gain the best light which the gloomy situation could afford ’ , and the ailing wife and children lie on mattresses in the comers , it is not difficult to see why many , as well as Dickens , might have thought such a separation an improvement . |
| 25 | And because those two incidents are in some way related to the death of Heather 's sister in June of last year . ’ |
| 26 | Oswiu 's decision at Whitby in favour of the Roman Easter indicates an appreciation of the need to bring the Church among the northern Angles into some degree of greater conformity with the Church of Rome , though he evidently envisaged a relatively slow process of accommodation to Catholic requirements under the Irish Tuda as the new bishop of Lindisfarne . |
| 27 | These conventions establish that the Court 's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson should be followed in the future until the Constitution is amended . |
| 28 | In the March issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 50 ) , we reported the Court of Appeal 's decision in Webb v Emo Air Cargo ( UK ) Ltd [ 1992 ] 142 New Law Journal 16 . |
| 29 | But by virtue of the US Supreme Court 's decision in HJ Inc et al v. |
| 30 | Lord Denning M.R. 's decision in Pearlman v. Keepers and Governors of Harrow School may be contrasted with this . |