Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun sg] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPPOSITE An Artist 's impression of Mozart 's death . |
| 2 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
| 3 | The park itself , only an arrow 's flight from the movie theatre , still had the undulations of a feudal field system . |
| 4 | Only an hour 's drive from the beautiful Kashubian Lake district , rich in forests and rolling countryside . |
| 5 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 6 | Lazio may well have been planning to allow Gazza only an hour 's play in any event as he tried to gain match fitness . |
| 7 | Anguilla ( pronounced An-Gwil-a ) is just an hour 's flight from Antigua and with a mean monthly temperature of 80 degrees fahrenheit it is not surprising that this British Crown Colony is fast becoming the ‘ in ’ place for holidaymakers . |
| 8 | The boy was sitting there , not an arm 's length from him now , studying the patterns of black and white with a fierce intensity , as if to grasp some meaning from them . |
| 9 | Haslemere 's hardly an evening 's drive from Weymouth . ’ |
| 10 | Where they are still organized separately from social services , education welfare officers can sum up an area 's state of mind as well as help — or question — individual families , at least up to the time when centralized social work services are cut back . |
| 11 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 12 | Burke and Chinkin set out an expert 's code of conduct in an appendix to their article cited at 14.9.2 . |
| 13 | Compared with £1.5 billion for FGD to achieve a significant cut in Britain 's sulphur emissions , it was a cheap way of buying time : a year 's grace for each £1 million , about an hour 's expenditure for the CEGB . |
| 14 | Fortunately , we had friends at Kelton , which was on the way , about an hour 's walk into the journey , so one could stop and rest . |
| 15 | Maybe the purely locomotive-hauled coach could be obsolete or at least an enthusiast 's treasure by the end of the nineties . |
| 16 | Twenty-four track , residential facility just over an hour 's drive from Dublin . |
| 17 | And yet an Englishman 's relation to English culture and its traditions may be more tormented than Schniedau allows for , especially if the Englishman in question defines himself as , or aspires to be , an English artist . |
| 18 | I could equally describe the dense wilderness that settles on you like a heavy hand , barely an hour 's walk from Yosemite 's granite architecture . |