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 . ’
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