Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told a Westminster press gallery lunch that the problem was not the properly prepared Queen 's Speech programme of bills , but the demand for instant legislation following a serious event , with ministers being deemed failures if they did not promise a new bill . |
| 2 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 3 | It had a smoking-room with fitments and atmosphere to rival the most exclusive gentleman 's club , a ladies ' drawing-room like a miniature boudoir with silk , tapestry and chaise-longue in the style of Louis XV , but the piece de resistance was the dining-car . |
| 4 | What a place to view not only the entire ridge-walk we had completed , but the majesty of Ben Nevis , the tips of the Glencoe mountains peeking over the edge of the Mamores to the south and the most perfect eagle 's eye view up to the head of Glen Nevis . |
| 5 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 6 | The most common beginner 's mistake is to sit too far aft in the boat and that causes a great wrist a tail of to come up from the trunk . |
| 7 | Sadly , the gloom of World Cup failure prevails ; Denmark 's 1–0 defeat of Albania earlier in the day rendered even the most optimistic mathematician 's calculator redundant . |
| 8 | What Corden performed , albeit once , was the most difficult chairman 's trick of all . |
| 9 | A lovely old house really , done up in the most excruciating women 's magazine ‘ good taste ’ . |
| 10 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 11 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 12 | In the event , although the Victoria Press did last for over twenty years , and despite the creation in London in 1876 of the rather similar Women 's Printing Society , which also paid the full male rate , women compositors never penetrated the London trade to any extent . |
| 13 | Then the paper that had published the earlier report recognised her name as that of the rather hysterical women 's libber who was planning to expose PopCon as the enemy of women … and this seemed to clear the matter up . |
| 14 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 15 | One seat each went to the hitherto ruling People 's Liberation Movement ( PLM ) , the National Development Party ( NDP ) led by Bertrand Osborne , and an independent , Ruby Wade-Bramble . |
| 16 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 17 | The ‘ tangent … in the hand 's cup ’ has to do with the legend that the shapes of the finest Greek vases were replicated from the contour of the divinely beautiful woman 's breast , as cupped in her lover 's hand and thereafter imprinted on his mind — obviously a powerful emblem of how the impulse to artistic manufacture is erotic . |
| 18 | A distinguished and powerful draughtsman , Julian has ranged far and wide both in this country and abroad for his landscapes , from the extremely colourful Devil 's Dyke to the bold but featureless Birling Gap . |
| 19 | As it stands , the richly decorative bishop 's palace was built largely by Henry de Gower ( 1328–47 ) . |
| 20 | But while Saturday is vital , today 's news from Hillsborough occupies the immensely likeable Linighan 's mind even more . |
| 21 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 22 | The reception was all that we had hoped and planned ; the young best man gave the best best man 's speech I have ever heard ! |
| 23 | However , exclusive attention to falsifying instances amounts to a misrepresentation of the more sophisticated falsificationist 's position . |
| 24 | There is sightseeing on a spectacular level , whether you use the chairlifts , cable cars , mountain railways or the ever trusty Shank 's pony ! |
| 25 | Yet the electorally oriented ultra-right 's slide in Germany had far from spelt the end of the ‘ new right ’ that emerged throughout western Europe in the past decade . |
| 26 | Eventually the dog is pulled out with its jaws fastened on the nearly dead fox 's throat . |
| 27 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 28 | Borrowing several hundred yards from the Cunha Surf I steered the board into the now towering Queen 's Surf . |
| 29 | There is a small shop flanked by brick cottages with pantiled roofs , and round the corner near the lane leading to the neighbouring hamlet of Uncleby is the now disused blacksmith 's forge , once so busy in the days of working horses . |
| 30 | Passing close to , and parallel with , Sturgis ' southbound command , the Nez Perce band silently traversed the now unguarded Clark 's Fork Canyon , ‘ where rocks on either side came so near together that two horses abreast could hardly pass ’ . |