Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the country districts a woman 's life is not easy . |
| 3 | And always the edge of the loch and the lap , lap of its waves a stone 's throw away . |
| 4 | In other words a woman 's immune system is er able to deploy erm er antibodies against a , a , a , against sperm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Passed her school exams , played with Georg , helped her mother in the dairy , and never given either of her parents a moment 's worry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 10 | In many cases a business 's standard terms may be so long and complicated that that would be impracticable . |
| 11 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
| 12 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 13 | You will not be shocked if I speak of — things a vicar 's daughter — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Michael 's been reading his book of Things a Director 's Supposed to Say again , ’ a voice murmured somewhere above her ear , and Shannon turned with a grin to the tall blonde woman at her side . |
| 15 | Letting agencies should never charge tenants a finder 's fee , although according to Galsworthy , many agencies do . |
| 16 | The main problem is that the stored sound can be lost when the thin layer of aluminium which coats a CD 's plastic surface is oxidised , losing its ability to reflect laser light . |
| 17 | Termitologists have made great advances in working out how the pheromone communication system controls and coordinates a colony 's activities , but no one has yet explained how the millions of blind workers , each carrying a tiny pellet of mud , manage to construct between them such ingeniously designed , efficient and large-scale buildings . |
| 18 | The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity . |
| 19 | Studies have found various ways a husband 's income is used by the family . |
| 20 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 21 | In too many instances a player 's schedule is determined just as much by the need to honour commercial contracts or by their agents , as by what is best for him or her . |
| 22 | Even so , like a dog at the bone , The Times was driven to search out the foreign disposition of the garotters , accusing them of abandoning the traditional civility of the traditional English highway robbery : ‘ Without the old challenge and parley in use among highwaymen , your garotter knocks a man 's head against the kerbstone as the best way of getting at his pocket . ’ |
| 23 | 11.10 : The first blast rocks a men 's toilet on the third floor in John Lewis 's store as customers and staff are leaving . |
| 24 | Horror ! — the tabloids in action , by S J Taylor ( Bantam Press ) , the author interviews a photographer 's agent , Shelley Lawrence . |