Example sentences of "a [noun] 's [noun sg] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved that , in reality , a salesman 's lot was a happy one both emotionally and financially . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's fussy in that he wants it right , but he does n't mind if a guitar 's action is a little higher or a little lower ; he can basically play anything . ’ |
| 3 | If repatriation is not possible , the United Nations considers that integration and settlement within a refugee 's region is the next best alternative . |
| 4 | Sheep 's eyes are not the eyes of one particular sheep but a kind of glance or look ; a busman 's holiday is a holiday spent doing one 's normal paid work . |
| 5 | It is no good insisting that , so long as you look at it with your eyes closed , a pig 's ear is a silk purse after all . |
| 6 | The secure knowledge of a parent 's presence is the precondition for such exploration , as it is for satisfying curiosity and for sharing new experiences . |
| 7 | The first decision that you have to take when planning a publication 's layout is the underlying grid . |
| 8 | Part of a child 's development is the evolution of a concept called by psychologists the ‘ self . |
| 9 | A child 's surname is the father 's first name with son ( for a boy ) or dóttir ( for a girl ) added . |
| 10 | ‘ But a girl 's wedding 's the greatest day of her life . |
| 11 | Often a boy 's father was the first to take him below . |
| 12 | Of course , Therese would look ridiculous in the part — nothing they could do about that , a boy 's costume was a boy 's costume — but the voice , that electrifying voice rippling up and down through the registers without effort . |
| 13 | But I thought that to have a saint 's care was a good idea , even to my Protestant mind . |
| 14 | Only the top two elements of the stack are ( for speed ) held in processor registers A and B. Operands are added to the top of the stack by being placed in A , whose contents ( if any ) are moved to B. The remainder of a process 's stack is a vector of contiguous store locations . |
| 15 | In the case of married persons living together , a spouse 's interest is an indirect interest for this purpose . |
| 16 | Belbin ( 1981 ) has found that one of the key determinants of a team 's success is the nature of the interaction in terms of the qualities brought to completing the task . |
| 17 | A person 's domicile is the country which is in fact or in the eye of the law his permanent home for the time being . |
| 18 | The most dangerous moment of a policeman 's life is the time between getting his coat on and getting out of the station . |
| 19 | In the light of our results , we believe that the best clinical approach for an acute diagnosis of a Barrett 's oesophagus is the combination of endoscopic and manometric studies ; but how accurate is it to compare distances measured by manometry from distances measured by endoscopy ? |
| 20 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 21 | The nearest thing to a sustained campaign for a People 's Government was the Left Book Club . |
| 22 | In effect , where a firm 's customer is an intermediary dealing on behalf of his own clients , the firm must in principle treat the intermediary 's client as its own customer if it knows the client 's identity ( except where the firm is dealing with a market counterparty , see page 29 below ) ; in certain circumstances , however , the intermediary can be treated as the customer ( see below ) . |
| 23 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ A man 's sexuality is an incredibly fragile thing . ’ |
| 25 | The following year a Cook 's tour was the very first group of European tourists to set foot in America . |
| 26 | Should n't a farmer 's wife be a woman who understood farming ? |
| 27 | Today , 90-95% of a property 's value is the maximum , and because of conservative valuations ( often 10-15% below the purchase price ) , first-time buyers are having to find deposits as large as 20% . |
| 28 | It is clear from the Act that ‘ proceedings before a judicial authority ’ can be taken to include proceedings before a children 's hearing : a children 's hearing is a ‘ tribunal , body or person holding power ’ under statute ‘ to determine any question affecting the rights , privileges , obligations or liabilities of any person , or to receive evidence affecting or determining any such question ’ . |
| 29 | THE TRINKETS OF A SCHOOLBOY 'S POCKET ARE THE TROPHIES OF THE OPIE COLLECTION . |
| 30 | Equally , voluntary initiatives like the People 's League of Health , founded in 1917 under royal patronage , with a membership which included medics , moralists and eugenists , pronounced : ‘ A Nation 's Health is a Nation 's Wealth . ’ |