Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 2 | But dialect features are not errors in this sense at all , but are characteristics of a pupil 's native language . |
| 3 | This is because the characteristics of a region 's economy and the supply of air transport usually change slowly and hand-in-hand with one another . |
| 4 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 5 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 6 | It held the faint tang of a man 's aftershave and she hugged it to her for a moment before realising how ridiculous she was being . |
| 7 | It sounds like a man who has squashed five centuries of a nation 's literature in his palm . |
| 8 | There were the long-handled wooden shovels used for transferring the food into sacks , and at the end of the aisle there rose , like the bulk of a god 's statue in a temple , a wooden hopper , its side bound with bronze . |
| 9 | Special collections purchased from private or public sources may form the bulk of a university 's holdings of research materials , and the acquisition of one special collection may — if it is subsequently well maintained — lead to the offer of further collections in the same field . |
| 10 | In that case , the defendant ( D ) made an offer to acquire the bulk of a company 's shares . |
| 11 | No bookseller can expect to supply the bulk of a library 's orders from stock , and basically the librarian requires a quick , efficient service for material which the bookseller must obtain from the publisher . |
| 12 | If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim . |
| 13 | The force of a runner 's foot deflects the pavement very little in running , and therefore does little work ( in the Newtonian sense ) on his environment . |
| 14 | Scientists at Lerner Marine laboratory , in the Bahamas , USA , have a device for measuring the force of a shark 's bite . |
| 15 | Service companies The attractiveness of service companies in the administration of a solicitors ' practice will by and large depend upon the perceived fiscal advantages at any particular time ( see Chapters 5 and 10 ) . |
| 16 | It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased . |
| 17 | So if increasing the speed of a computer 's components is limited by the speed of light , how will one ever build increasingly faster computers ? |
| 18 | It also follows up , in the same way , cases identified through the press or public comment where questions are raised about the adequacy of a firm 's audit procedures . |
| 19 | This disregard of the family 's potential for constructive future contact where the question of the adequacy of a child 's parenting has arisen , has led to a polarisation of public care and private family life . |
| 20 | There we find an equally spirited expression of what well-executed design can bring to the presentation of corporate information , from the formal reporting of a company 's performance to the promoting of a wider understanding of its aims and personality . |
| 21 | It should only aim to record that which is necessary for accurate reporting of a pupil 's progress according to the agreed reporting format of the school as a whole . |
| 22 | In this chapter , we intend briefly to survey some of the cultural and technological correlates of a society 's attitudes towards child upbringing generally ; and , more specifically , to examine a few of the ways in which the individual methods which parents adopt in the handling of their small children are defined or modified by the intricate pattern of cultural pressures to which they find themselves subject . |
| 23 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |
| 24 | Their importance for the teacher is substantial — in a work environment where few other adults directly witness the quality of the teacher 's work , examination results provide one of the few public and apparently objective indicators of a teacher 's competence . |
| 25 | The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses . |
| 26 | Section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 comes into effect on 1 January 1992 ; so incorporation of a solicitor 's practice will become an additional option . |
| 27 | Or the whispering rattle of a bat 's wing . |
| 28 | Whatever one thinks of this judgment , it is not immediately obvious that it entails the rejection of the more specific claim that the state is the tool of the ruling class ; for the latter makes no explicit mention of a class 's consciousness of its interests , real or otherwise . |
| 29 | However , much demolition is done on a piece work or per day basis , and you might simply be talking about the loss of a day 's work or a day or two 's profit . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) Loss of a craftman 's joy and pride in his work ( Morris v Johnson Mathey & Co ( 1967 ) 112 SJ 32 ) . |