Example sentences of "a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than half these Vs have had repeats , and the names of the first ascensionists are often a better guide to a route 's difficulty than its published grade . |
| 2 | Even close to major cities and towns where the passage of thousands of feet , hooves and occasional wheels had the effect of beating out a route 's direction very clearly , there was no local Department of Highways , or even a town plan to enforce legal limitations on the line of a particular road . |
| 3 | His only other live appearance in this country was with Starr at a Prince 's Trust concert in 1987 . |
| 4 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 5 | A Prince 's Trust source said : ‘ Both the prince and princess were asked if they wished to attend but Charles is the only royal who will be there . |
| 6 | As a rule they are only killed for food ( and then only cocks or old hens ) when an important visitor comes to the homestead , perhaps a prince 's son or perhaps a father-in-law . |
| 7 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 8 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 9 | A prince 's treatment of his fideles was not susceptible to rules of impersonal and eternal justice ; and no attempt was yet made to make it so ( see p. 349 ) . |
| 10 | that of an instruction in the martial arts compatible with the maintenance of a prince 's peace ; that of an outlet for competitive instincts within the claustrophobic confines of a court ; and that of display to maintain princely social status . |
| 11 | PORTRAIT OF A PRINCE 'S DAUGHTER |
| 12 | This is Venice , ’ he said with great arrogance , his bearing as autocratic as a prince 's . |
| 13 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 14 | Some of he old outhouses have been converted into a Wheelwright 's workshop , a Blacksmith 's forget and a Plumber/Tinsmith 's workshop . |
| 15 | The few pieces that are known for certain to be by Lombardo — in a Doge 's tomb in Venice and two busts in Vienna — show no sign of the naturalist force that the tomb artist gave to Guidarello 's face . |
| 16 | Once a Doge 's palace , ornate stairways , gothic arches and balustrades remain . |
| 17 | The tutelary spirit of these dreams is no longer the man in the white coat and the black boots : it is a woman , a woman the size and shape of a galleon 's sail , who can forgive him everything . |
| 18 | ‘ A clinician 's first duty must be to the patient , ’ said one . |
| 19 | Medcalf goes even further , quoting a clinician 's opinion that Hoccleve suffered several episodes of a manic form of affective psychosis . |
| 20 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 21 | Naturally , brothers are not the best judges of a sister 's sex-appeal . |
| 22 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 23 | Do n't look here for anything rousingly political — instead we are offered the everyday concerns of township life from ‘ shared beer ’ to a sister 's wedding , marital arguments to ‘ the importance of proper education ’ . |
| 24 | she left that and she 's gone to do her midwifery and now when she gets the other day she was looking at old pay slips God , she must have been an idiot to give up a sister 's post cos she said her wages have dropped terrible to do this course ! |
| 25 | Cos they wo n't pay you a sister 's grade , they 'll only pay you an E grade . |
| 26 | Well Yvonne went into the private to get er a sister 's post and sh but she knew she was gon na do her midwifery , so she knew she was n't gon na stay there but when she went it 's become when she does her midwifery for the sister 's post , ah but she 's got experience has n't she when she 's |
| 27 | To attack in self-defence , as Ariel had done , was a warrior 's response , justified in the heat of the battle . |
| 28 | A warrior 's uniform hung up next to the standards . |
| 29 | British Legion was able to raise funds for the erection of a Servicemen 's Memorial Club in Bourne Place , just off the Chiswick High Road , between Dukes Avenue and Duke Road . |
| 30 | So , for example , Bitstream 's Dutch may appear to be a perfect match for Linotype 's Times at 300dpi but when they are output at a typesetter 's resolution the minute differences will be more exaggerated . |