Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 2 | The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability . |
| 3 | Is there a link between a racing driver 's haircut and his track record ? |
| 4 | Labour contender Ashok Kumar has expressed support for a junior doctors ' campaign for shorter working hours . |
| 5 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |
| 6 | However , a faster alignment through a new King 's Cross station remains a possible alternative in spite of the opposition of the Treasury , which prefers a cheaper but roundabout line into St Pancras . |
| 7 | Some compensation for these flops was provided by Carol Reed 's The Fallen Idol ( 1947 ) , an adaptation of Graham Green 's short story about a young boy 's loss of innocence , and Anthony Asquith 's The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) , an adapted stage-play about the struggles of a naval cadet 's father to prove his son 's innocence of theft . |
| 8 | Lovers of good beer — well deserved of course after a hard day 's exercise — wo n't have to go far for a fine pint . |
| 9 | He needed their support after a hard day 's work in often uncomfortable conditions . |
| 10 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 11 | AEF is priced at $3,000 per site and ADE starts at $26,500 for a three-seat developers ' installation . |
| 12 | The children 's mothers are tea pluckers and earn as little as £1 for a full day 's work . |
| 13 | Professionally Ambache will also continue to support demands for a social workers ' council . |
| 14 | During the same era of the early sixties , TV tough guy , Lewis Collins was earning a living as a junior ladies ' hairdresser at Andre Bernard 's salon in Liverpool . |
| 15 | But the experience of writing creatively — of using the sonnet form , for example , or of imitating the characteristics of a particular writer 's style — leads also to an increased critical awareness of literary technique in the writing of others . |
| 16 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 17 | The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows . |
| 18 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 19 | Now the biggest minus on the list is the closure of an elderly person 's home . |
| 20 | Unseasonable bad weather may mean a late start to breeding and the loss of an entire season 's young ; in particularly bad seasons large numbers of birds may fail even to start , and miss a breeding season altogether . |
| 21 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 22 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 23 | Neither case is concerned at all with the position where a child has been stillborn as a result of a third party 's negligence or has , as a result of such negligence , survived birth for only a minimal period . |
| 24 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 25 | There could hardly be a stronger contrast between this and the picture RIGHT which shows a Kirlian photograph of a healthy person 's fingertip . |
| 26 | On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head . |
| 27 | BT has agreed not to increase its stake in MCI for ten years and , in any case , America 's regulators prevent any foreign investor from holding more than 25% of an American firm 's voting shares . |
| 28 | After delivery , the concentrations of a new mother 's sex hormones fall dramatically and the Oxford workers have shown that there is a corresponding fall in the number of a 2 -adrenergic receptors . |
| 29 | THE FUTURE of a controversial chemist 's shop in Darlington is still in the balance . |
| 30 | Even so , he had survived some narrow escapes ; always the fault of a Rotten Fellow 's hopeless driving . |