Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , they did n't have to get into the cage for the children 's ward was on the ground floor . |
| 2 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 3 | ‘ Now that women 's judo is on the main Olympic agenda in Barcelona , the competition has become much tougher , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |