Example sentences of "a [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 2 | A prince 's treatment of his fideles was not susceptible to rules of impersonal and eternal justice ; and no attempt was yet made to make it so ( see p. 349 ) . |
| 3 | The few pieces that are known for certain to be by Lombardo — in a Doge 's tomb in Venice and two busts in Vienna — show no sign of the naturalist force that the tomb artist gave to Guidarello 's face . |
| 4 | The hero of Waugh 's Sword of Honour trilogy ( 1952–61 ) , again , is virtuously gauche ; so is Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim in 1954 , a comic hero usually as polite in aspiration as he is socially incompetent in practice ; and so , it must be imagined , was the young Betjeman who , as he revealed in ‘ A Subaltern 's Love-song in New Bats in Old Belfries ( 1945 ) , adored girls too strong for their fainting admirers , whether at love or tennis : |
| 5 | A subaltern 's commission in the Hampshire Yeomanry in 1897–8 gave him a liking for army life , and in January 1899 he was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers . |
| 6 | We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it . |
| 7 | The artist 's sketches and scribbles are analysed to demonstrate recurring motifs and psychological preoccupations guilt at the death of Casegemas or a mistress 's abortion for example while figures such as Alfred Jarry , Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein are brought to life in Richardson 's simple , flowing prose . |
| 8 | a cetacean 's fear of being human |
| 9 | IN A LONG and distinguished career , Malcolm Marshall had won almost everything , but not a winner 's medal in a Lord 's cup final . |
| 10 | In front of Roshanara 's litter , which was open , sat a young , well-dressed female slave , with a peacock 's tail in her hand , brushing away the dust and keeping off the flies from the Princess … |
| 11 | At a footballer 's dinner in Glasgow , the Irish international Liam Brady once joked that McAvennie 's team-mates nicknamed him ‘ Ginger-Pubes ’ , adding with glee , ‘ I can assure you Frank 's blonde hair is n't natural . ’ |
| 12 | Following a colleaque 's battle against skin cancer , Canberra musician , Tim Marshall ( pictured right ) , organised a ‘ one man sponsored run ’ in aid of Wessex Cancer Fund . |
| 13 | The final determination of the ley theory 's status is obviously desirable ; if it is a mare 's nest in Britain , unlike in South America , then it ought to be despatched as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |
| 15 | Hunslet claims its trains , based on three cars with a driver 's cab at either end , will use 30 per cent less energy than similar electric models . |
| 16 | Hunslet claims its trains , based on three cars with a driver 's cab at either end , will use 30 per cent less energy than similar electric models . |
| 17 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 18 | One is SlickEdit , a programmer 's editor from MicroEdge . |
| 19 | This description is given , partly verbally and partly in a more formal way ( by tables and diagrams ) , in the computer system reference manual , or in a programmer 's guide to the computer 's assembler language ; the latter tends to subsume the effect of some of the computer 's more basic software in the description . |
| 20 | Sensors on the tank measure wind speed and direction , air temperature and other factors that affect a shell 's behaviour on its way to the target . |
| 21 | The stars of Christie 's sale of Spanish Works of Art on 28 and 29 May , dubbed ‘ The Unique Spanish Sale ’ is this the beginning of a Christie 's campaign for the Spanish market ? will be El Greco 's ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ and Zurbarán 's ‘ Christ and the Virgin in the house at Nazareth ’ , both offered anonymously . |
| 22 | The ‘ Alberto Aringhieri ’ , on the other hand , was later sold by Berenson at a Christie 's sale in London . |
| 23 | The more precisely a target audience is defined , and the more homogeneous it is , the greater a course 's potential for an extended impact . |
| 24 | AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally . |
| 25 | AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally . |
| 26 | If you do not get active and stay active , you 've got a snowball 's chance in hell of maintaining any weight loss . |
| 27 | One complication that we see raised with Samson Agonistes , is that a text 's success in fulfilling the conditions of its chosen genre , in this case classical tragedy , may help to render it unsuccessful in terms of the way it was originally envisaged as intervening aethestically in its contemporary history . |
| 28 | A study of it leads us to witness a text 's position within the social and cultural climate from which it emerged , and with which it negotiates . |
| 29 | By combining a fuller investigation of a text 's history with an awareness of new theoretical investigations into the structures of both culture and discourse , New Historicism has directly confronted the problem of how literature ‘ says something of something and says it to somebody ’ ( to recall Geertz 's formulation ) . |
| 30 | What it is important to recognise here is that a text 's negotiation with the time of its historical production is a complex operation . |