Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they playlist a band 's record , then that band think the playlist is ‘ marvellous ’ . |
| 2 | Again there is no guidance as to how to choose between the four categories , and no acknowledgement that such choices will be based on political perceptions of where in the organizations a group 's interests will be best protected . |
| 3 | In the country districts a woman 's life is not easy . |
| 4 | And always the edge of the loch and the lap , lap of its waves a stone 's throw away . |
| 5 | The main body of the investors was , of course , the Pioneers ' Society ; and it was primarily in intention and practice a consumers ' co-operative . |
| 6 | In other words a woman 's immune system is er able to deploy erm er antibodies against a , a , a , against sperm . |
| 7 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 8 | Minton 's largesse was attractive : Bernard still recollects how , at a time when he was earning £2 10s a week , in a timber yard off Greek Street , Minton astonished him with a gift of £10 , in effect a month 's wages . |
| 9 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 10 | Philosophy can , for example , bring to light a discipline 's tests for truth , and the criteria by which truth claims are normally evaluated . |
| 11 | Typically , a doctor aIters the state of a patient 's heaIth , the teacher shapes a pupil 's knowledge , and a hairdresser changes the physical appearance of a customer . |
| 12 | Last week , workers accused union officals of blackmailing them into accepting a package which would give each former employee a week 's wages for every year of service . |
| 13 | At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband . |
| 14 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 15 | Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , government politicians had sufficient time to reach a solution to the crisis . |
| 16 | Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal or resignation only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , Shamir left just enough time to clear the Cabinet of Labour ministers before the Knesset vote . |
| 17 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 18 | I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is . |
| 19 | A well designed 2 bedroom semi-detached house situated in an extremely quiet cul-de-sac a stone 's throw from Port Meadow . |
| 20 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 21 | My main Scottish informant , Norman Halkett a farmer 's son , born in 1910 in Huntly , Aberdeenshire , sketched in his own background and his early involvement with horses : |
| 22 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 23 | Oh , God , how convoluted can a woman 's mind be ? |
| 24 | Her voice was soft and low ; her complexion a child 's . |
| 25 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 26 | Is your home a burglar 's paradise ? |
| 27 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
| 28 | Passed her school exams , played with Georg , helped her mother in the dairy , and never given either of her parents a moment 's worry . |
| 29 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 30 | By showing in what circumstances a firm 's value would not be affected , Messrs Modigliani and Miller provided clues for the circumstances in which it might be . |