Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman 's purse . |
| 2 | Although this refers to a Christian 's relationships with other Christians , it is legitimate to extend Paul 's principles to all human relationships . |
| 3 | This refers to a culture 's ideas concerning beauty and good taste , together with an appreciation of colour and form . |
| 4 | Some playing positions are prone to collide with a Floyd 's fine tuning system and this one seems to be especially sensitive . |
| 5 | Customs may argue that this amounts to a landlord 's repairing lease . |
| 6 | This entails in a carer 's words ‘ Living someone else 's life , thinking for two people ’ . |
| 7 | After a bar of eighth notes comes a pair of sixteenths followed by a quarter 's rest , then a long , low root — just right ! |
| 8 | In particular the vendor should seek assurances that the current shareholders have waived any rights of first call they have on the new shares and , if necessary , are prepared to enter into a shareholder 's agreement with the vendor . |
| 9 | Few people realise just how much depends on a man 's reputation even in this day and age . |
| 10 | Yet many librarians seem content to select from a supplier 's selection , and to surrender professional responsibility for their service to the suppliers , allowing speed and ease of supply to take precedence over comprehensiveness and depth . |
| 11 | Weber , on the other hand , while agreeing that class had much to do with a person 's economic position within a social organisation of capital and labour , departed from this dualistic conception . |
| 12 | The notion is gaining credence that health-care seeking in IBS , particularly to tertiary care centres , may have as much to do with a person 's cultural and psychosocial state as with the IBS symptoms themselves . |
| 13 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 're about as easy to locate as a politician 's honour . |
| 15 | Donald was about the nearest he was likely to find to a Murderer 's Doctor . |
| 16 | ANDREW BARCLAY and Sons 0-4-0ST No 1680 of 1920 prepares for a day 's work on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway . |
| 17 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 18 | A few months later the IAC , inspired by Jack Buckner , suddenly produced a paper for all internationals to sign agreeing to be random tested at a moment 's notice , anywhere , any time . |
| 19 | The above definition may at first seem to have little to do with a choreographer 's work . |
| 20 | Women , children and dependent adults are all subsumed within a man 's family , and their capacities for individuality and self-expression are of secondary importance , seen from this perspective . |
| 21 | It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica . |
| 22 | This process involves the combination of love and discipline in a secure and balanced family environment where both parents are present to contribute to a child 's development into maturity . |
| 23 | The thing which had seemed so hard was simple now , the gulf that had appeared unbridgable shrank to a child 's leap , and vanished as he stepped over it . |
| 24 | Similarly it is usually possible to determine from a speaker 's voice his or her sex , approximate age and educational status , as well as some aspects of state of health and personality ( see Abercrombie , I968 ; Laver , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | But schools now inevitably become more tense about a failing teacher or a teacher with personal problems or problems of health who may not be able to concentrate on a pupil 's assessable skills . |
| 26 | I am troubled by the thought that this familiar world into which I am able to slip without a moment 's readjustment , is a vanishing world . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's rather fanciful to think you will be able to walk into a solicitor 's office in Carlisle , engage one lawyer , then argue your case up to the highest court in the land . |
| 29 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 30 | Charles Booth 's 1889 survey of London showed that 30 per cent of the population were unable to rely on a man 's wage alone . |