Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The on-loan Kilcline brought much-needed stability to the heart of Newcastle 's defence but a moment 's hesitation by the otherwise accomplished Alan Neilson undid the good work , allowing former darlington player David Currie to fire the equaliser five minutes from time . |
| 2 | People enquiring about the Allied Trust Tessa and the company 's status are accurately told by employees that Tessa deposits are covered by the deposit-holders ' protection scheme , which guarantees up to 75% of the first £20,000 of an investor 's money if a bank fails . |
| 3 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 4 | If there were , then the last decade and a half of selectionist-neutralist controversies over all these different non-definitional issues could have been settled in advance without recourse to empirical data , in an armchair with a scientist 's glossary and a logician 's truth table . |
| 5 | What is the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach ? |
| 6 | The Sartre-type account is really no more than an endorsement of what James called ‘ the most natural and immediate answer ’ to the question , ‘ What is the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach ? ’ |
| 7 | In this essay I have tried to make the most of one such region — in which the connection between one 's everyday experience of bodily sensations and one 's conception of the relation of body and mind seems fairly plain : to accept the James-type account , and the general conceptual background of which it is a symptom , is to deny one 's everyday experience of the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach . |
| 8 | The legislative powers of the public water authorities have been highlighted by Mr Ralston 's case and a proposal by the Central Scotland Water Development Board to lay a 12-mile mains from the treatment works at Balmore to Cumbernauld because of an increase in demand . |
| 9 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 10 | People had been shocked , by numbers as well as by gratuitous death itself , as people will be , and Mrs Maguire 's sister and a friend had founded the Peace People , whose brave beginning and sad end will not be chronicled here . |
| 11 | The proposal of such words to a writer can lead to disbelief about a word 's existence and a lack of confidence in the system . |
| 12 | Given that a person could be an illegal entrant through deception , what standard of proof was to be applied when reviewing the immigration officer 's decision that a person had entered by deception ? |
| 13 | It upheld the industrial tribunal 's decision that a man in comparable circumstances would also be dismissed . |
| 14 | The First Division of the Court of Session so held in refusing a reclaiming motion by property valuers against the Lord Ordinary 's decision that a mortgage application form containing a disclaimer in respect of their liability to Derek and Margaret Melrose constituted a contract . |
| 15 | Parties faced with an expert 's decision or an arbitration award will need to know how the decision or award may be enforced , whether they can appeal against the decision or award and whether they can sue the expert or arbitrator . |
| 16 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |
| 17 | There is no record of Osbald 's parentage but a Bernician extraction seems highly probable . |
| 18 | In the bedroom cupboard , scented with lavender , a man 's shirt and a woman 's white skirt swung among the empty coat-hangers . |
| 19 | The celebration must take place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. , and must be preceded by a publication of banns or the obtaining of a Registrar 's certificate or a Bishop 's or Registrar 's licence , and unless a special licence is obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury , must take place in a recognized place of worship or Registrar 's office situate in the district in which one at least of the parties resides . |
| 20 | Because she 's got the two and as she said to me , it does n't matter in the junior school , he will take a teacher 's assessment or a report with him anyway . |
| 21 | On Dec. 9 opposition parties forced the adjournment of Parliament amid pandemonium and competing calls for Rao 's resignation and a ban on the BJP . |
| 22 | In the immediately preceding weeks dozens of violent anti-government demonstrations , led by students in the capital Caracas and other major cities , had demanded Pérez 's resignation and an end to economic austerity policies and police repression . |
| 23 | Carradine hacked at the other man 's stick and a length of wood flew away . |
| 24 | His eyes swept the terrasse 's clientèle and an eyebrow twitched as his glance passed one of them in a way that directed attention to the woman sitting there , with her back to the street , facing them through the glass . |
| 25 | The lyrics , in English and in their entirety , are ‘ We drive/We drive/On the motorway ’ , thereby precluding any Bruce Springsteen-style nonsense about the wind in one 's hair and a girl on the pillion . |
| 26 | When we arrive there 's a three inch pile of mail on the floor , the day 's diary overruns one of the computer screens and the breakfast table is set with grapefruit , muesli , cereals , Frank Cooper 's marmalade and a vase of flowers that may or may not have been pinks . |
| 27 | There was a gulp from the extinguisher 's valve and a trickle of yellow-white liquid dribbled pathetically from its nozzle . |
| 28 | It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up . |
| 29 | This suggests that to the criteria for trust wording a further one should be added : that the words be not only ‘ mediate ’ ( in the sense that they do not attribute property directly to the beneficiary ) but that they should also unequivocally attest the testator 's intention that a trustee should be under a legal obligation to a beneficiary . |
| 30 | I 'm sure it crossed Martin 's mind that a fall could pendulum him back into the great flake of Eroica . |