Example sentences of "one [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 2 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 3 | Formula Three was born in 1950 but more significantly , that year saw the birth of the Formula One driver 's championship . |
| 4 | Well , in the last ten years , and this is only history , what really matters is tomorrow , Ferrari won one driver 's title and Williams and McLaren won the rest . |
| 5 | However , the premature report of one warrior 's gun alerted the soldiers , and the raiders hurriedly stampeded 200 mules . |
| 6 | ONE VET 'S VIEW |
| 7 | Venous blood samples were drawn between 8 and 9 am , after an overnight fast and at least one hour 's bed rest , for routine haematology and serum biochemistry tests and for the specific analyses . |
| 8 | The notion that " one hour 's sleep before midnight is worth two afterwards " has perennially been invoked to put children to bed early ( although only 10 per cent of the survey sample believed it to be true ) . |
| 9 | Montgomerie looked the sharpest fielder on a miserable day when tea was delivered to the fielders after one hour 's play . |
| 10 | In the winter , snow or , more usually , hail can fall on the tops of the highest mountains and yet one hour 's drive down in Funchal people are swimming and sunbathing . |
| 11 | Transport & Tourism : Montserrat is just south of Manresa , one hour 's drive north of Barcelona . |
| 12 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 13 | Some 13.5 million people live within one hour 's drive of the town and nearly 30 million within two hours . |
| 14 | £6 was considered to represent approximately the rate for one hour 's teaching . |
| 15 | At least one taxing officer takes the view that as a rule of thumb he would be prepared to allow one hour 's perusals for each month of the litigation . |
| 16 | I have a conference at six , but we could get in one hour 's work , at any rate . |
| 17 | Except in criminal areas , initial advice should be given by an advice agency , such as a CAB , rather than a private practitioner , and criminal cases would be limited to one hour 's work . |
| 18 | up to date , one hour 's work |
| 19 | During this period the Artist will be allowed at least one hour 's break . |
| 20 | During this period the Artist will be allowed at least one hour 's break . |
| 21 | Racing starts at 2.10 , and there will be almost one hour 's interval between the third and fourth races to allow for the Grand National broadcast . |
| 22 | He was told that he would be allowed to drink in one hour 's time when the local anaesthetic had worn off and he was able to swallow . |
| 23 | Juveniles will cover two laps and seniors and juniors two for a race of about one hour 's duration . |
| 24 | The coachbuilding trade employees were paid by the hour and only one hour 's notice was needed to either terminate employment or vary the hours to be worked . |
| 25 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 26 | ‘ The men are not deviating by one hair 's breadth from the ordinary system of training , ’ he told the Daily News . |
| 27 | At any time only a small part of Shared Ark 's simulated world is visible on any one user 's screen . |
| 28 | Simultaneous scores are disallowed ; in this case , one contestant 's punch has missed , so it is not really a simultaneous score at all ! |
| 29 | She creates her own phrases , too , not least memorably in her mood-spinning 1983 autobiography , ‘ One Writer 's Beginnings ’ . |
| 30 | The costs would be in the region of £15,000 , and the archives could be filmed and indexed with one man-year 's effort . |