Example sentences of "a [noun prp] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Once a Doge 's palace , ornate stairways , gothic arches and balustrades remain . |
| 3 | Er but of course there was no newspapers er printed at all then , and I 've got , there was a Churchill 's Paper , what did they call that ? |
| 4 | The ‘ Alberto Aringhieri ’ , on the other hand , was later sold by Berenson at a Christie 's sale in London . |
| 5 | The stars of Christie 's sale of Spanish Works of Art on 28 and 29 May , dubbed ‘ The Unique Spanish Sale ’ is this the beginning of a Christie 's campaign for the Spanish market ? will be El Greco 's ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ and Zurbarán 's ‘ Christ and the Virgin in the house at Nazareth ’ , both offered anonymously . |
| 6 | As in optics , a Snell 's law exists : where is the angle of incidence and are the angles of refraction , and and are the solid velocities . |
| 7 | The subject is one of such importance to the conveyancer that readers are advised to acquire one of the books and booklets devoted to the subject , of which the following are three examples : Guide to Enquiries of Local Authorities by Trevor Aldridge ( Longman Professional ) ; Handbook of Conveyancing Searches by E O Bourne ( Sweet & Maxwell ) ; and Searches and Enquiries — A Conveyancer 's Guide by Frances Silverman ( Butterworths ) . |
| 8 | The judges for 1992 will be Tim Waterstone , founder of the chain of shops ; Professor Michael Kauffmann , Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art ; Michael Ratcliffe , Literary Editor of the Observer ; Marina Vaizey , author , critic and editor of NACF Publications ; and Paul Baggaley , a Waterstone 's buyer and manager . |
| 9 | Conran ran a café selling 4p bowls of soup and a King 's Road coffee bar to help raise the capital to start up his own furniture-manufacturing business , which turned out products similar to those found in Habitat shops today . |
| 10 | She could only get a poorly paid job as a sales assistant in a King 's Road shoe boutique . |
| 11 | Er , and eventually they took that tune from a melody from a Haydn 's string quartet . |
| 12 | What 's involved in putting a Crowes ' song together ? |
| 13 | Against all reason they felt it could turn his slow decline around like a Lourdes ' miracle . |
| 14 | As she nags , her husband complains of her tongue moving faster than his " boring stick at a Friday 's pace " . |
| 15 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 16 | Evocations of Dark Age kingdoms are often a Grimms ' fairy-tale picture of huge dark forests , dwarfing the puny efforts of humankind . |
| 17 | Accumulating grants in this way , though , is a time-consuming business and risks exposing a TEC 's staff to all the rigours of inter-departmental bickering in Whitehall . |
| 18 | The Galerie Hopkins–Thomas , which had one of the best selections , including an early Van Gogh of a Blacksmith 's Apprentice at a rather hefty £100,000 , a Gustave Moreau watercolour , I'Ibis Rose , at an even heftier £600,000 , and a Schiele portrait of a woman at £200,000 . |
| 19 | Some of he old outhouses have been converted into a Wheelwright 's workshop , a Blacksmith 's forget and a Plumber/Tinsmith 's workshop . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh ! the bones ! ’ said Flora , and brought them from the kitchen — in a Harrods ' bag . |
| 21 | Pathological examination showed a Dukes 's C adenocarcinoma . |
| 22 | At colectomy a Dukes 's A cancer was found on a background of total colitis . |
| 23 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 24 | He has now done a Levi 's campaign and a Kylie Minogue video . |
| 25 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 26 | At the time of the trial , Hegan was living in Coatbridge and earning a pittance as a Butlin 's Redcoat and Munro was living in Australia . |
| 27 | First you clap your hands I learned this song in my first year as a Butlin 's redcoat and slightly changed the words . |
| 28 | When you ring , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and request that you send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday Worlds brochure . |
| 29 | HERE 'S how to escape those autumn blues — take a break at a Butlin 's Holiday World at an unbeatable price . |
| 30 | When you call , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and ask you to send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday World Breakaways brochure or send you a copy . |