Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responsibility for the Sex Discrimination Act , the Equal Pay Act and the Equal Opportunities Commission would be given to the Women 's Ministry . |
| 2 | ‘ The repercussion are likely to be felt in the children 's market , ’ observed Mr Lang , ‘ where ‘ visual literacy ’ alternatives to books are more attractive among the 10 to 12 year olds — your book buyers of the future . ’ |
| 3 | 5.41(I) enables a licensing board to specify the types of liquor which may be sold under a seamen 's canteen licence . |
| 4 | They hoped to collect money to be used for the children 's sports and fancy dress , cakes and biscuits and prizes for a tombola . |
| 5 | In other words not sitting there and asking people to , erm people in authority , erm sort of people of influence , ask them what they think , but actually going out and visiting people and groups , and I was going to ask whether this would be copied to the women 's sub-committee , because there are many , many groups of women who never have a chance of saying what they really want , and I do n't mean patients , I mean potential users of the health service . |
| 6 | Just like Windsor , volunteers formed a human chain to rescue nearly 200,000 precious items — in this case , books and manuscripts that had to be protected from the firemen 's hoses as well as the flames . |
| 7 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 8 | The Old Bailey heard he then cut her up before taking parts of her body on the Underground system to be dumped outside a women 's refuge . |
| 9 | The French chef from Montreal was not there , I soon discovered , because he was a she , and could only be found in the women 's changing room . |
| 10 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 11 | For Jarvefelt , opera needed to be illustrated like a children 's story-book of fables . |
| 12 | The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city . |
| 13 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 14 | This will be the last selection by Ms Eccleshare ( who is now The Bookseller 's children 's book correspondent ) and the last to be copublished by the Children 's Book Foundation and Andersen Press . |
| 15 | For every ticket bought , £1 will be donated to a children 's charity , chosen by you . |
| 16 | For every ticket bought , £1 will be donated to the children 's charity elected by you . |
| 17 | Maria Elena Aparicio was sentenced to seven years and is believed to be held in a women 's prison in Havana . |