Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In themselves they 're historic , but it was Ponting 's expertise as a stills cameraman that has given the world a stunning pictorial account of a legendary expedition . |
| 2 | It was this and the suspiciously silent room that initiated Jane Holt 's search for a police officer . |
| 3 | FUNDRAISERS from Alexandra Pottery have challenged Mason 's Ironstone to a games night in aid of their adopted charity for 1993 at the Cockney Club . |
| 4 | Turkey 's application for full membership of the European Communities ( EC ) remained deferred for consideration in 1993. Özal 's proposal for a customs union with the EC by 1995 received EC endorsement in a formal communication issued in Brussels on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 5 | Freddie the Nark 's impersonation of a police officer had sounded convincing to him , until he said that Peggie had fallen at her home . |
| 6 | Jason Ratcliffe , 22 , would surely have reached the 1,000 mark for the first time but for the early-season decision to spread Asif Din 's role as a limited-overs opener into championship cricket . |
| 7 | To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled . |
| 8 | The bishops ' caution came after 2,500 Basques marched through San Sebastian on Saturday protesting against ETA 's killing of a police officer , Jose Angel Alvarez , father of six . |
| 9 | Claes Oldenburg 's design for a greetings card , celebrating one hundred years of the Denver Museum of Art . |
| 10 | Letters have been flying between number ten and Mr Kinnock 's office over a Commons debate on Britain 's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |