Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Is there a link between a racing driver 's haircut and his track record ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He needed their support after a hard day 's work in often uncomfortable conditions . |
| 7 | The children 's mothers are tea pluckers and earn as little as £1 for a full day 's work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There could hardly be a stronger contrast between this and the picture RIGHT which shows a Kirlian photograph of a healthy person 's fingertip . |
| 12 | On the high mantel shelf above what had once been the fireplace was a black and white photograph of a young man 's head . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THE FUTURE of a controversial chemist 's shop in Darlington is still in the balance . |
| 15 | Even so , he had survived some narrow escapes ; always the fault of a Rotten Fellow 's hopeless driving . |
| 16 | This right of election ( which may be exercised by the beneficiaries of a deceased partner 's estate in the event that no personal representative has been appointed ) may be excluded by agreement , eg provision for the automatic accruer of the share of an outgoing partner or for the purchase of such share with interest until payment — see Vyse v Foster ( 1872 ) LR 8 Ch App 309 . |
| 17 | LEGA emphasised the need for an objective appraisal of a prospective co-operative 's commercial prospects : and was critical of the attempt made on Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn 's insistence when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , to rescue the Scottish Daily News , Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Ltd ( KME ) , and Meriden ; and to make the co-operative form the instrument of rescue . |
| 18 | She had gone to bed early thinking of the luxury of a long night 's rest but woke from sleep unwell . |
| 19 | Most of the other searchlights were out now , and only the fires lit the quays and the gaunt dockside warehouses that echoed to the sharp burst of a tommy-gun 's fire and the sharper answering rent of a German Schmeisser 's more rapid fire . |
| 20 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 21 | From some dim recess of her mind came the words of a Breton fisherman 's prayer , which she had read in some book . |
| 22 | Car-makers are pessimistic about an upturn this year and are expressing concern about the effect of a Labour government 's economic policy on the industry . |
| 23 | Jeremy 's task is to take pictures of a potty professor 's crazy creations before any rival rags . |
| 24 | Such decisions to grant State aid can be taken in the light of a national government 's overall policy towards internal competition , and therefore need not conflict with the aims of its national competition policy . |
| 25 | Faded prayer flags fluttered above the smoke — blackened bamboo roof of a Tibetan refugee 's hut . |
| 26 | The Harewood House charity auction , hosted by the Queen 's cousin the Earl of Harewood , is in aid of a new children 's day hospital in Leeds . |
| 27 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 28 | We have still , in the first months of a new church 's life , known some intractable difficulties where one member finds it impossible not to feel betrayed , usually by the leaders . |
| 29 | He let out a deep , hungry growl as she bucked and gasped from the shocking sensation , her eyes like a frightened doe 's . |
| 30 | She was lolling in bed , her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child 's . |