Example sentences of "the [noun] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen that in the media reporting at the stage of the trial a women 's sexual conduct is often brought into question . |
| 2 | The illustrations were engravings based on original daguerreotypes , the text a Reformist 's account of lower working class life . |
| 3 | Practitioners are strongly advised to use Clause 3(a) as under the Rules a solicitors ' incorporated practice is permitted only to ‘ carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships . ’ |
| 4 | Practitioners are strongly advised to use Clause 3(a) as under the Rules a solicitors ' incorporated practice is permitted only to ‘ carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships . ’ |
| 5 | There was a boat drawn up on the shore , dark oak painted white to the water line , the prow a swan 's head . |
| 6 | ’ Killer Bombs ’ The sirns waled , The sirne ecoed through the streets as the planes ( zoomed ) across the sky Droaned there was a quick burst of ack Ack fire Then a whistling of Bombs all around Suddenly here was silence Then a rumble , Then a boom getting louder like a volcano The sky filled smoke and flames Black Bright orange leeping through the air across the sky in the middle of the noise a child 's crying Then the shouting of people trapped in the rubble House in flames all around The loud ringing of fire engines rushing to the fire More and more voices ( shouting ) for help screaming Body lieing all around . |
| 7 | Again there is no guidance as to how to choose between the four categories , and no acknowledgement that such choices will be based on political perceptions of where in the organizations a group 's interests will be best protected . |
| 8 | Above the laughter a man 's voice carried and Robert Menzies recognized the wine-merchant from Weem . |
| 9 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 10 | A guardsman got up and thanked him in English for granting the battalion a week 's leave . |
| 11 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 12 | The University of Walkato , Hamilton , New Zealand reached its 25th Anniversary in 1989 and as part of the celebrations a Graduates ' Association was formed . |
| 13 | Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman 's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it ? |
| 14 | And then it was over , and Jennifer was left alone to watch as the gravediggers , tumbled the pile of earth and stones down onto the coffin , with the wind bending the sea pinks and the guillemots balancing on the upcurrents , and in the distance a farmer 's wife called " Pru-it ! " to her cow . |
| 15 | Drifting from an open window came the voice of a tenor singing ‘ O Sole Mio ’ , while out in the lagoon a ship 's siren sounded , and on one of the bridges a man played an accordion . |
| 16 | A social worker may , for example , repeat to the court a child 's account of sexual abuse by a parent . |
| 17 | One is a Trek black and orange bike worth £2,000 , the other a gent 's purple Gary Fisher model worth £550 . |
| 18 | Set in the steamy swamps of Bayou La Teche ‘ Scorchers ’ is part comedy , part deadly serious drama , in the story of two curious relationships — one in which a newly married husband ca n't get his young wife into bed and in the other a preacher 's daughter ca n't get her husband out of someone else 's ! |
| 19 | Such is the price a silversmith 's son may have had to pay to achieve respectability in a Victorian village community . |
| 20 | The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity . |
| 21 | The Danakil did not hunt and the Abyssinians , who had wiped out most of the game elsewhere , were afraid to venture into their country , since among the Danakil a man 's standing depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated . |
| 22 | The investigators are interested both in the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ( ‘ spillover effects ' and in the ‘ strategic ’ policy responses which such spillovers may induce . ) |
| 23 | It looks at the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ' ( ‘ spillover' effects ) and at the strategic policy responses which such spillover effects may induce . |
| 24 | In the case of France , it has been said ( Kendall , 1975 ) that in the past a worker 's decision to join a union represented as much a reflex of class consciousness as any intention to organise practically on his own behalf for enhanced conditions and improved job control . |
| 25 | Lowering the plumment into the swim a rod 's length out I find it is almost five feet deep at that point . |
| 26 | Adler found that despite the legislation a woman 's sexual history was routinely introduced during a rape trial . |
| 27 | In the UK and the US a company 's financial performance is judged at quarterly intervals . |
| 28 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 29 | They had not given the details of the break-in a moment 's thought , so keen had they been to avoid the subject in the course of the evening . |
| 30 | In the background a man 's voice pleads : ‘ Is she going to be all right ? |