Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without such dialogue , and the associated openness in management and decision-making , there could be a substantial gap between a school 's espoused philosophy and its classroom practice . |
| 2 | A FAREWELL march through a ship 's adopted town had to be diverted yesterday after police discovered a suspicious package . |
| 3 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 4 | Its head is like a camel 's , its horns like a deer 's , its eyes like a hare 's , its ears like a bull 's , its neck like a snake 's , its belly like a clam 's , its scales like a carp 's , its claws like an eagle 's , and its paws like a tiger 's … |
| 5 | From its size the experts think your pen was probably part of a child 's set . |
| 6 | " And this was a case of a man 's being found on the mud ? " |
| 7 | The scrape of a chair 's being drawn out jerked her from her musings , and she looked up quickly . |
| 8 | This story of a player 's the striker 's move to the top of nation 's goalscoring charts does n't fit the normal footballing script . |
| 9 | Discovery of a text 's more specific historical embedment usually finds it confronting issues which are comfortably familiar , if usually unwelcome , to a late twentieth century social and political perspective . |
| 10 | SO FAR disappointing , Aviva Petroleum near a year 's low at 170p should have more good news on acreage soon , say followers . |
| 11 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 12 | Europe , of course , is something of a captive market ; not only is ESA funded by 13 European member-states but ESA 's procurement policy has been to award contracts in proportion to a country 's given contribution to its budget . |
| 13 | Edna 's best in profile , and besides , if you have a soft skin like that , you really need an interesting background , and ivy on a wall 's ideal for that . ’ |
| 14 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 15 | He looked like a thin , young boy , much younger than he really was , his brown hair like a monk 's without the tonsure . |
| 16 | They 're a bit like a cat 's , they look as if they 're lit up , from inside , pale green like a cat 's . |
| 17 | If this is so , and if there is a sighting or acuity difference between a subject 's left and right eyes , then either the left or the right nasal pathway may be favoured accordingly . |
| 18 | What sort of a game 's that ? |
| 19 | There would have been no danger of a Wanda 's being mistaken for his niece . |
| 20 | There was no sound of a light 's being switched on in the sitting room , but we might not have been able to hear it . |
| 21 | He is going bald and he has a nose like a Jew 's , though he is n't ( not that I 'd mind if he was ) . |
| 22 | Not only did n't the soft voice sound like a witch 's , thought Virginia ; the face did n't look a bit like a witch 's ; in fact , she decided , the witch sounded and looked so sweet and gentle that she could n't be a witch ! |
| 23 | Sitting on the sofa with my loved one , browsing through the TV pages of the paper , I said innocently , ‘ A Room With A View 's on tonight . |
| 24 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 25 | The offences are alleged to have taken place at a children 's home in Sunderland where the boy was a resident . |
| 26 | This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care . |
| 27 | While the village unit remained small there was less chance of a decision 's being imposed by the community 's more influential members , and in any case the imposition of status and ranking tended to reduce the passive acceptance of inferiority which might have attended its acquisition through achievement or wealth . |
| 28 | The eyes started out of his head like a hare 's , and were not blue but hazel . |
| 29 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 30 | There are reports that she attempted to leave Northumberland House : it seems that she stayed on one occasion with Louise Purdon , who was a " night-nurse " with her own flat above a chemist 's , until she was found and taken back . |