Example sentences of "'s [noun] be in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Frank Holden 's defence is in the interest of every member of IBOA . |
| 2 | George 's hours are in the pre-pack . |
| 3 | Ted 's apartment was in the East Village , an assortment of dank rooms almost devoid of furniture but with a variety of rugs and cushions and mattresses scattered around the floor . |
| 4 | I had a bottle of VP Rich Ruby wine , and Darren 's tablets were in the house , and I had some pain killers . |
| 5 | Then Susan 's monster was in the square , towering above Daine 's statue . |
| 6 | Jane Leeson went into the photographic studio and told her husband that Lowell 's girlfriend was in the reception area . |
| 7 | During the mid-sixties the strongest pressures on the profession 's practice were in the area of conveyancing . |
| 8 | But Frederick Bissett detested walking , and because his Sara 's car was in the garage , and his own car sat outside overnight , he condemned himself to five minutes of scraping the ice from the windscreen and the back window and to revving the engine , blowing grey fumes away down Lilac Gardens . |
| 9 | All he wanted to do was to see if Connon 's car was in the garage . |
| 10 | Childeric 's brooch was in the style of that of a high-standing imperial official . |
| 11 | ‘ Armstrong 's keys were in the pocket , ’ said Bunny . |
| 12 | PLANS to spruce up Middlesbrough 's cemeteries are in the pipeline . |
| 13 | And erm I said to her , dad 's overall 's in the machine so when they 're finished you hand them on the line . |
| 14 | The only area where this may work to the buyer 's detriment is in the area of the product lifetime . |
| 15 | No wonder she thought Jane Pargeter 's job was in the bag . |
| 16 | ‘ If woman 's place is in the home , ’ he went on , relentlessly , his voice full of venom , ‘ then why are n't you there ? ’ |
| 17 | There is still a strong view prevailing in the Conservative Party that ‘ a woman 's place is in the home ’ . |
| 18 | But it is also an ideological statement : the housewife 's place is in the home washing and hanging out her own clothes ; not in the launderette where they are processed for her . |
| 19 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 20 | A woman 's place is in the home — not only is this common sense , it is also backed by scientific evidence . |
| 21 | How does Arnold Jago ( Letters NI 191 ) make the logical leap from Dr Dianne McGuiness 's research-findings to his conclusion that a woman 's place is in the home ? |
| 22 | If a woman 's place is in the home doing the cooking ( Letters NI 191 ) — how come most of the top chefs in restaurants are men ? |
| 23 | That old cliché ‘ a woman 's place is in the home ’ was a perfect cop-out ! |
| 24 | At 25 she is just about half his age , but she 's happy to go along with his old-fashioned — some would say chauvinistic — belief that a wife 's place is in the kitchen . |
| 25 | As the saying goes , ‘ a woman 's place is in the wrong ’ ; and this is as true of language as it is of anything else . |
| 26 | It is the business of language to represent reality , so to the extent that it is stuck in a vanished world where woman 's place was in the home , and so on , language is misleading us and failing to do its job . |
| 27 | Most working women 's groups accepted that the respectable woman 's place was in the home , emphasising women 's contribution as wives and mothers and the need to bring the ‘ mother spirit into politics ’ . |
| 28 | In the nineteenth century , they turned around the idea that women 's place was in the home to argue that motherly values should be extended beyond it . |
| 29 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 30 | Pont 's cartoons were in the Punch tradition of George du Maurier [ q.v. ] and Frank Reynolds , poking fun at the middle classes . |