Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | The main body of the investors was , of course , the Pioneers ' Society ; and it was primarily in intention and practice a consumers ' co-operative . |
| 3 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Philosophy can , for example , bring to light a discipline 's tests for truth , and the criteria by which truth claims are normally evaluated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband . |
| 9 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A well designed 2 bedroom semi-detached house situated in an extremely quiet cul-de-sac a stone 's throw from Port Meadow . |
| 15 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 16 | Oh , God , how convoluted can a woman 's mind be ? |
| 17 | Her voice was soft and low ; her complexion a child 's . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Is your home a burglar 's paradise ? |
| 20 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
| 21 | After a moment a man 's voice said in Italian : |
| 22 | At that moment a child 's bone snapped . |
| 23 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 24 | Beyond the winds , beyond the cawing of the unclean birds along the crags , beyond the scrabbling of a rock lizard or other hopeful , hungry brute , beyond any sound a mortal 's hearing might detect , there is something else . |
| 25 | WELL done to the residents of Deadwood , South Dakota , who are fighting Kevin Costner 's £25 million plan to make their town a gambler 's paradise . |
| 26 | It is only necessary to behold thus the least phenomenon , however familiar , from a point a hair 's breadth aside from our habitual path a routine , to be overcome , enchanted by its beauty and significance . |
| 27 | Giving divinity a dog 's chance |
| 28 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 29 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 30 | With multiple logistic regression a mother 's report of ‘ blueness ’ was the best predictor for hypoxaemia in the newborn infants , with an accuracy of 62% . |