Example sentences of "['s] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , even if we had a precise account of adult human knowledge of inside , support , and behind , we could not equate any part of this with a cat 's or a chimp 's knowledge simply by jettisoning those parts of it influenced by our linguistic representations . |
| 2 | Their legs would need to be proportionately stronger , more like a reptile 's or a mammal 's , in which case they would need to have the metabolism of either a reptile or a mammal . |
| 3 | Like the animals in a taxidermist 's or a museum , with their glass eyes that do n't move . |
| 4 | This time , however , there was no market to go to , and certainly no choice as to whether he should select a Cox 's or a Granny Smith for breakfast . |
| 5 | Too much focus on the re-allocation competition risks understating the extent to which ownership and control changed by an irregular but continuing process of adjustment and negotiation with the ITA/IBA about the buying and selling of interests , either on the Authority 's or a franchise-holder 's initiative . |
| 6 | whether a man 's or a woman 's he could not tell , |
| 7 | ‘ A man 's or a woman 's ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 8 | " The essence of the historical process , " says Tamara Hareven in Family Time and Industrial Time , is the meeting between an individual 's or a group 's life history and the historical moment . |
| 9 | The thin , clever , spatulate fingers — they could have been an apothecary 's or a musician 's — held the roll of parchment delicately ; the light blue eyes studied Hotspur 's face without disguise and without wavering . |
| 10 | Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for ! |
| 11 | If you do not wish to do so , then there are many other new angles of vision available to you : a child 's viewpoint , for example , an animal 's or the viewpoint of a stranger who may interpret familiar customs in unfamiliar ways . |
| 12 | And another way of showing how wealthy you were was to keep up with the fashion ‘ look , I can afford to wear this year 's dress , I 'm not wearing last year 's or the year before 's ’ . |
| 13 | But er it was quite a simple job and er I liked it , then now and again I used to walk down to the station master 's or the station inspector 's office you know , have a chat with him and and get the gen on what was for the weekend working you see . |
| 14 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 15 | No longer are they to be considered as Princess Diana 's or the Duchess of York 's children . |
| 16 | Required to be stated were the goods ' identification marks , the number of packages or quantity of goods and the indication whether the stated weight was the carrier 's or the shipper 's , and the apparent order and condition of the merchandise when received by the carrier . |
| 17 | Most of the regulations are someone else 's problem : the architect 's or the builder 's ; the latter sometimes being both . |
| 18 | To Molly the name seemed ridiculous , a cowboy actor 's or the name of an American millionaire . |
| 19 | And if you 're married , the rental income can be treated as either the husband 's or the wife 's , depending on which suits your circumstances best . |
| 20 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 21 | The air force 's reserves seem much more efficient than the army 's or the navy 's . |
| 22 | If it is the smoker 's decision , why not the cocaine snorter 's or the heroin injector 's decision ( those ‘ habits ’ probably do not kill 115,000 people per year in the UK alone ) . |
| 23 | Ms Walker 's main job will be to make sure the hall 's famous Minton tiled floor is not damaged by either the cast 's or the audience 's feet . |
| 24 | This is to be a longer and harder fight than any of them have ever witnessed at Sinatra 's or the Rainbow or any one of dozens of warehouses and car parks . |
| 25 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |
| 26 | In preparing a thesis at the master 's or the doctorate level , the student is clearly engaged in research . |
| 27 | Of course , like thousands of others around the world , I felt I ‘ knew ’ him from the wireless and his writings on the game ; but the training of binoculars on him in the commentary-box at Lord 's or The Oval was the nearest to physical contact . |
| 28 | Operating in conjunction with the bank 's or the exporter 's ECGD Insurance Policy [ which insures against the normal risks of non-payment ] , these schemes offer a limited recourse debt purchase/goods purchase facility where the terms of payment are not greater than 180 days . |
| 29 | The experimental context in which the behavioural understanding of cognition developed involved such a presupposition : we understand the rat 's or the pigeon 's behavioural repertoire because we see it in the context of a physical layout that we take as given . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , some people go off to El Vino 's or the Falstaff . |