Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But if the cheering at the end on Thursday evening — and I mean the cheering from upstairs , which is what matters — is a portent , then Kenneth MacMillan 's Prince Of The Pagodas is a success .
2 Princess Rose ( Darcey Bussell ) resists unwanted advances in Kenneth MacMillan 's Prince Of The Pagodas
3 In Northamptonshire , Miss Green continued under the Cassell Trust 's funding of the Kettering scheme but her relationships with Lee , the university resident tutor , continued to be formal and distant .
4 Canon J Stafford Wright , an evangelical scholar and former principal of Tyndale College , Bristol , believes that the psychic might be man 's link with the rest of the animal world .
5 In addition to Saudi Arabia 's installation of the east-west ‘ Petroline ’ linking the huge Ghawar oilfield to the Red Sea coast , Iraq had also laid a strategic line to enable oil from its southern fields to be sent out via Syria in the event of difficulties in the Gulf .
6 ‘ Aha , ’ came Googol 's response over the radio , ‘ but you may say you are those same three people inside those suits … ’
7 The climbing world 's response over the years has been ambivalent .
8 Leapor 's response to the discomforts of agricultural labourers must be approached at different levels .
9 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 .
10 This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 .
11 This is Teresa 's response to the proposal .
12 The casuals realized , quicker than most commentators , that the radical aspect of the Thatcher government 's response to the recession is its rejection of the Protestant Ethic .
13 De Klerk 's response to the Harms report was effectively to exonerate Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan ( held by the Harms report to be " politically responsible " for the existence of the CCB ) from all responsibility for the activities of the discredited CCB , declaring that the report 's findings belonged to a past era , and there was " no reason to condemn the politicians in charge for the way in which they carried out their duties " .
14 But while pleased , Mr Elton was scathing about Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley 's response to the Ombudsman 's report to which the Government refused to accept responsibility for the affair .
15 In this sense , the author 's intention does play an indirect part in determining the meaning of the words in question , because that meaning is decided by the ordinary reader 's response to the question : " What on earth is the author getting at ? "
16 The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes .
17 The EEC 's response to the disintegration of Yugoslavia is an equally important indication of what might be expected from the Common Foreign and Security policy .
18 Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry 's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place .
19 The Algerian media gave prominent coverage to the army 's response to the incident , in which weapons were said to have been seized from the military by the armed group .
20 Fojcik 's response to the hounds is especially remarkable for as Degas did with race horses , he conveys both their animal beauty and their potential energy as lean mean racing machines .
21 It is the blinkered approach typified by Mr. Kent 's response to the nurse that we want to eliminate from the NHS .
22 THE ABILITY of Lothian 's employees to provide cost effective services at local level was highlighted in the Regional Council 's response to the Government 's reform document .
23 THE COUNCIL 'S response to the government 's proposals for the future of water and sewerage services showed that Lothian 's current arrangements would be the most efficient , cost-effective and democratic way to provide these services in the future .
24 The images can be , but they 've also got an edge of grim humour — Heartfield and police president Zorgiebel ( below ) shows the artist 's response to the man held responsible by the Communists for the killing of May Day demonstrators in 1929 .
25 The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
26 The uncertainty surrounding the future of London 's specialty care services continues despite the publication this week of 6 reviews by working groups set up by the London Implementation Group after publication of the UK Department of Health 's response to the Tomlinson report on London 's health services .
27 The hon. Gentleman 's response to the Budget is as empty as that of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition , whose comments yesterday , I thought were proof positive that the Michelangelo virus was alive and operating inside the Labour party .
28 Television 's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena .
29 Legal aid , in the words of The Laws of Scotland : the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia , is society 's response to the criticism that there is one law for the rich and one law for the poor .
30 GOVERNMENT 'S RESPONSE TO THE ELTON REPORT
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