Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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1 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
2 | The two sides might have parted company there and then had it not been for the GLEB 's condition that someone with newspaper business experience should be on the executive . |
3 | Price Waterhouse 's UK practice would have experienced a negative growth rate in fee income in the year to June 1992 , if it had not been for the firm 's corporate recovery arm . |
4 | To discover how cost-effective it was to sustain at home people who were judged likely to have been in an institution had it not been for the project 's services . |
5 | However , if the cards are for the wife 's relations or childhood friends , it would be more natural to put her name first . |
6 | Two are for the Queen 's flight- to carry members of the royal family and VIPs — the rest are used by the RAF for training . |
7 | There you are for the gent 's ring this time . |
8 | A lot of poems in Serious Concerns ( Faber , £12.99 ; £4.99 pbk ) are about the poet 's life as led by Wendy Cope , how it does n't bring you happiness , money or men , which seems a trifle ungrateful , considering how popular she is . |
9 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
10 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
11 | A petition to the King and Council , dated between 1297 and 1308 , stated that ‘ the men of Easingwold and Huby are of the king 's ancient demesne … in the forest of Galtres ’ . |
12 | The two significant assessments are of the applicant 's disposable income and disposable capital . |
13 | The board said its actions were based on ‘ a wide range of factors including financial results that are below the board 's expectations . ’ |
14 | They bought a flat in the capital , Nick attended art school for a while there , and Laura made a very close friend of a woman whose unusual shop had been opposite the Ashley 's first boutique on the Left Bank . |
15 | ‘ T is near the castle since they 're under the King 's protection . ’ |
16 | You 're in a buyer 's market . ’ |
17 | I 've been gone just two days , and when I return you 're in a stranger 's clothes with a bandaged hand , and an odd expression on your face . ’ |
18 | Otherwise we 're , we 're in no man 's land |
19 | ‘ Yes , well we 're in the Führer 's hands . |
20 | ‘ We 're in the lion 's den . |
21 | We 're in The Face 's office , up six flights of cement stairs that smell of Dettol . |
22 | ‘ We 're on the Queen 's business , ’ she cried , in a desperate bid to avert disaster . |
23 | They 're at the family 's main estate over Maidenhead way . |
24 | I decided then that I did n't want to be a martyr , and since then I have n't been near a hairdresser 's . |
25 | Tau-Taus , together with textiles and carved panels , are amongst the Toraja 's artistic products most coveted by ethnographic collectors . |
26 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
27 | The winds around the Italian islands in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea are like the country 's drivers : unpredictable , given to sudden shifts , occasionally very noisy , but generally safe . |
28 | Though France is the primary target when the US hits the first $300 million worth of exports in December — America believes that they are behind the EC 's ‘ stubbornness ’ — Britain is next in the firing line . |
29 | That does not mean to say those who are against the President 's policy are any less patriotic … |
30 | ‘ After all , as you just reminded me , I am under the Sheriff 's protection . ’ |