Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] an [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that will was vitiated either by the monarch 's evil counsellors or , as the later theoreticians of military indiscipline were to maintain , by the corrupt operation of Parliamentary institutions run by a clique of national ’ politicians , then it could be salvaged by the heroic gesture of a general or the conspiracy of an officers ' mess . |
| 2 | STARS & STRIPES became Stars & Gripes yesterday , as her crew made no attempt to conceal their disgust at an umpires ' decision which cost them their race against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 3 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 4 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 5 | The bird simply sits on top of an ants ' nest and allows the ants to climb all over it , squirting their defensive fluids as they do so . |
| 6 | The determinants of an individuals ' welfare can be broadly classified as depending upon their own capacity to care for themselves combined with ( a ) market activities and relationships ; ( b ) the behaviour of ‘ significant others ’ as providers of ‘ informal care ’ amongst whom family members are likely to be the most important ; and ( c ) the role played by the state . |
| 7 | For instance , one may have to identify the real settlor of an employees ' trust or a trading trust . |
| 8 | This tendency has been especially marked within large establishments in the engineering and chemical industries , although multi-employer bargaining by means of an employers ' organisation still remains the predominant pattern in highly competitive industries with low capitalisation and a high ease of entry such as clothing , construction and printing ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | RIVIERA RAINBOW * , who opened his account with a facile victory in an apprentices ' event on the all-weather track at Lingfield Park last month , does not appear harshly treated in today 's Barbican Handicap ( 2.45 ) at Pontefract . |
| 10 | He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . |
| 11 | Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf . |
| 12 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 13 | Several butterfly species live out their caterpillar stage inside an ants ' nest . |