Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may help to increase the bladder 's capacity . |
| 2 | This will help them to become sensitive to the bladder 's warning signals . |
| 3 | Elgin 's wood |
| 4 | Elgin 's roof-leads , with those of Aberdeen Cathedral , went to the bottom of the sea when the ship foundered on a voyage to Holland , and Johnson invited every reader to ‘ rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost ’ . |
| 5 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 6 | But as Napoleon 's initial conquests and later defeats made European countries aware of their own traditional arts , so choreographers , like . |
| 7 | This development of a character style happened after Napoleon 's campaigns which gave birth to the so-called National movements . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 10 | Though the weapons and equipment are constantly modernised ( the Micks got the new design of helmets two years ago , the new rifles last year , and we are due the new webbing next year ) , Napoleon 's generals would still have recognised the discipline and aggression , as would the Kaiser 's , and Hitler 's . |
| 11 | Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops . |
| 12 | He was the Napoleon of Central Europe , though without Napoleon 's greed and vindictiveness . |
| 13 | Peter Mansfield , a distinguished British commentator on the Middle East , sketches its history from the Sumerians to Napoleon 's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and takes a more detailed look at events thereafter , right up to the Gulf War . |
| 14 | For all his lack of charisma he steered his country through Napoleon 's blockade , the Waterloo campaign , the agricultural depression , the regency question and reform agitation . |
| 15 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 16 | The entire programme spanned the period of the most demanding war ever fought by Britain up to that time , first against the new French Republic and later against Napoleon 's Empire . |
| 17 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for Napoleon 's schemes , Fernando proved reluctant and when in the summer of 1869 he contracted a morganatic marriage with a German-born actress , Elisa Hensler , he virtually put himself out of court . |
| 19 | Of Napoleon 's PERSONAL ( in capitals in original ) desire to keep the peace I have striking proof . |
| 20 | However , the claim to universal liberty was the justification of Napoleon 's attempt to conquer Europe , not the right of France to control the Continent ( on the other hand , Napoleon 's armies did little to change the inherited social structure of the areas they conquered ) . |
| 21 | However , the claim to universal liberty was the justification of Napoleon 's attempt to conquer Europe , not the right of France to control the Continent ( on the other hand , Napoleon 's armies did little to change the inherited social structure of the areas they conquered ) . |
| 22 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 23 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 24 | Until the Netherlands came under Napoleon 's rule , many of the inhabitants had managed perfectly well without surnames . |
| 25 | waged by Britain , Spain , and Portugal against Napoleon 's army in the Iberian peninsula . |
| 26 | The piece , which has not been traced , told the story of Napoleon 's exile and death on St Helena ; its butt and villain was the English governor of the island , Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1769–1844 ) , and the characters included Napoleon 's physician , Dr Francesco Antommarchi ( 1780–1838 ) . |
| 27 | The piece , which has not been traced , told the story of Napoleon 's exile and death on St Helena ; its butt and villain was the English governor of the island , Sir Hudson Lowe ( 1769–1844 ) , and the characters included Napoleon 's physician , Dr Francesco Antommarchi ( 1780–1838 ) . |
| 28 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 29 | We both knew of Napoleon 's retreat . |
| 30 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |