Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A maximum of £3,300 for a perimeter board facing the television cameras and £2,600 for a season 's worth of full-page advertisements in the match-day programme . |
| 2 | Basil 's Notes for a Teachers ' In-Service Course at Hoyland Teachers ' Centre February 1953 |
| 3 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 4 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 5 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
| 6 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | The fact that er we take the balance of the first year 's payment through a banker 's order . |
| 8 | Er we need to tell them that we 'll take the balance of the first year 's payment through er er on proof , when we when they 've got their proof on on the desk we will take the next the balance of the first year 's payment through a banker 's order . |
| 9 | The ability to climb , to sprint , to ride a time trial , to lead the bunch at 40 kilometres per hour through a day 's racing . |
| 10 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 11 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 12 | Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year . |
| 13 | The Labour Party unveiled plans for a women 's ministry , which would have a seat in the cabinet . |
| 14 | John Major juggled a pledge to privatise the rail and coal industries with plans for a citizens ' charter to guarantee public services . |
| 15 | His grand plans for a hero 's welcome disintegrated into a mass of fears over how the High Command would view this night . |
| 16 | There are distant plans for a Burke 's range of repro furniture and wallpaper . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's pathetic payment for a man 's life . |
| 18 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |
| 19 | Whatever happens , he concluded , ‘ we are surely about to witness the most momentous struggle for a country 's conscience that modern Africa has ever known . ’ |
| 20 | Forced back on a policy of self help , the RCM soon discovered that the public responded best when appeals were made of behalf of specific projects — £40 to support one boy in a course of agricultural training , say , or £60 for a year 's schooling . |
| 21 | When Veronica Sive first became interested in photography through a friend 's guidance , she became aware of the basic elements of the new medium . |
| 22 | There was also the French psychologist Michel Gauguelin , who has shown an inconclusive link between a child 's birth date and a future career . |
| 23 | One reason might lie in Mr Smith 's suggestion that there is a link between a company 's use of ‘ creative ’ accounting techniques and the market performance of its shares . |
| 24 | The project will collect new data , as well as exploiting existing information , in order to examine the link between a company 's employment of scientists and engineers and its economic performance . |
| 25 | A link between a person 's effort and his or her pay is a powerful means of improving performance . |
| 26 | During his involvement with the Ford Teaching Project , Elliott ( 1976 ) observed a link between a teacher 's capacity to develop self-monitoring ability and his tolerance of losses in self-esteem . |
| 27 | After four weeks of aerobic workouts , you have built the foundations for a lifetime 's health and fitness . |
| 28 | They can charge over three hundred pounds an hour for a partner 's services , but that 's increasingly subject to negotiation . |
| 29 | So much so , that in some calculations to be made later in these pages it will be safe to assume very close coincidence between a party 's share of the list vote in a land and its proper share of the total number of MdBs elected there : the SPD 's above-mentioned 62 MdBs amounted to 43.4% of the North Rhine-Westphalia total of 143 and its list vote to 43.2% , whilst the CDU , the FOP and the Greens , with votes of 40.1% , 8.4% and 7.5% had respectively 40.6% , 8.4% and 7.7% of the MdBs . |
| 30 | JOYRIDERS were chased by police at 100mph through a motorway 's contraflow system during the rush hour yesterday . |