Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What is the difference between a pain in one 's foot and a pain in one 's stomach ? |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 7 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean told him she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hilda Lini , the Prime Minister 's sister and a VP MP , proposed that a number of police and court functions might , under the terms of the amended constitution , be shifted to the traditional authority structures of the villages . |
| 10 | Over on ITV was Valdez Horses with Charles Bronson , not the most expressive of actors , as a halfbreed stud farmer involved with his wealthy neighbour 's sister and a teenage runaway . |
| 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 | In the bedroom cupboard , scented with lavender , a man 's shirt and a woman 's white skirt swung among the empty coat-hangers . |
| 13 | The support from one 's functional colleagues requires first of all a high degree of mutuality of respect for each other 's expertise and a shared acceptance of the objective that you are trying to achieve . |
| 14 | They are sent regular reports on the community 's progress and a quarterly paper reporting on ActionAid 's work worldwide . |
| 15 | Q2 's designer , Mike Pocock , was n't so much chosen as self-appointed through a combination of admiration for Mary 's enthusiasm and a clear understanding of what the owner wanter Q2 to be . |
| 16 | On April 20 two leading opposition groups — the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ( FLAM ) and the United Front for Armed Resistance ( FURAM ) — said in a joint statement that without Taya 's resignation and a general amnesty there could be no genuine democracy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | STRATHBEG is a naturalist 's paradise and a trout fisherman 's delight . |
| 19 | Hence the major cause of unemployment lies outside the government 's responsibility and a Labour government would not have made much difference . |
| 20 | Carradine hacked at the other man 's stick and a length of wood flew away . |
| 21 | Yesterday Mr David Moores , the club 's chairman and a close friend , said : ‘ He is such a fitness fanatic that last year , when he was supposed to be on five days ’ holiday at my house , he was on my front lawn every morning doing exercises ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There was a gulp from the extinguisher 's valve and a trickle of yellow-white liquid dribbled pathetically from its nozzle . |
| 25 | The goal did a lot to temper France 's discomfort at the dismissal of the centre-back Eric Di Meco for hacking down Johnston and incurring both the referee 's displeasure and a second bookable offence . |
| 26 | They could also , of course , be used by less friendly rustlers descending unawares on those communities : one hill track between St Mary 's Loch and a ford across the Tweed was ruefully dubbed ‘ Thief 's Road ’ ; but most such raiders preferred to shun known tracks and ride straight across wild countryside on their sturdy little Border horses , known as hobblers or hobbies . |
| 27 | The Renault lorry 's trailer became wedged under the bridge 's archway and a crane was brought to the scene to pull the vehicle free . |
| 28 | However , the distinction between a trader 's puff and a statement having legal significance is a fine one . |
| 29 | On the other hand India , which had 170,000 nationals working in Kuwait and several thousands in Iraq , limited its response to an acceptance of the need to comply with mandatory sanctions , an expression of regret at Iraq 's action and a call for the withdrawal of troops . |
| 30 | Lou smoked three cigarettes a day : it was his one bad habit — and on one occasion Sophie 's skirt and a stub had somehow come into contact . |