Example sentences of "a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even close to major cities and towns where the passage of thousands of feet , hooves and occasional wheels had the effect of beating out a route 's direction very clearly , there was no local Department of Highways , or even a town plan to enforce legal limitations on the line of a particular road . |
| 2 | Less than half these Vs have had repeats , and the names of the first ascensionists are often a better guide to a route 's difficulty than its published grade . |
| 3 | His only other live appearance in this country was with Starr at a Prince 's Trust concert in 1987 . |
| 4 | A Prince 's Trust source said : ‘ Both the prince and princess were asked if they wished to attend but Charles is the only royal who will be there . |
| 5 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 6 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 7 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 8 | that of an instruction in the martial arts compatible with the maintenance of a prince 's peace ; that of an outlet for competitive instincts within the claustrophobic confines of a court ; and that of display to maintain princely social status . |
| 9 | A prince 's treatment of his fideles was not susceptible to rules of impersonal and eternal justice ; and no attempt was yet made to make it so ( see p. 349 ) . |
| 10 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 11 | PORTRAIT OF A PRINCE 'S DAUGHTER |
| 12 | As a rule they are only killed for food ( and then only cocks or old hens ) when an important visitor comes to the homestead , perhaps a prince 's son or perhaps a father-in-law . |
| 13 | Some of he old outhouses have been converted into a Wheelwright 's workshop , a Blacksmith 's forget and a Plumber/Tinsmith 's workshop . |
| 14 | Once a Doge 's palace , ornate stairways , gothic arches and balustrades remain . |
| 15 | The few pieces that are known for certain to be by Lombardo — in a Doge 's tomb in Venice and two busts in Vienna — show no sign of the naturalist force that the tomb artist gave to Guidarello 's face . |
| 16 | The tutelary spirit of these dreams is no longer the man in the white coat and the black boots : it is a woman , a woman the size and shape of a galleon 's sail , who can forgive him everything . |
| 17 | David Cooper , a partner in a solicitors ' firm , was less cheerful : ‘ A Labour victory will cost me £250,000 a year . |
| 18 | Quigly , Willis and Frome — it would have formed a sufficiently high-sounding trio of names to grace a solicitors ' firm . |
| 19 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 20 | Rule 2 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 provides : Solicitors may at their discretion publicise their practices , or permit other persons to do so , or publicise the businesses or activities of other persons , provided there is no breach of these rules and provided there is compliance with a Solicitors ' Publicity Code promulgated from time to time by the Council of the Law Society with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 21 | Never underestimate how terrified many people are when faced with the prospect of going into a solicitors ' office . |
| 22 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 23 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 24 | A tenancy in common is usual in a business situation such as a solicitors ' partnership . |
| 25 | City Diary : Jackson 's new brief breaks a solicitors ' barrier |
| 26 | Under the Solicitors Accounts ( Deposit Interest ) Rules 1987 , solicitors have a duty to account to their clients for the interest earned by the placing of such monies in a solicitors ' client account . |
| 27 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
| 28 | For example , a solicitors ' practice operating out of High Street , Falkirk , may feel it has a lot less to fear from terrorist attack than , say , one in the City . |
| 29 | The reason for this is to ensure that all services central to a solicitors ' practice are regulated by the Law society . |
| 30 | Service companies The attractiveness of service companies in the administration of a solicitors ' practice will by and large depend upon the perceived fiscal advantages at any particular time ( see Chapters 5 and 10 ) . |