Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if deep down that peppery gentleman 's irritation might perhaps have been due to fear that once the gaff about whisky not being suitable for the kitchen was blown the master 's bottle would no longer be quite sacrosanct . |
| 2 | Duncan searched the rooms , but found only some soiled children 's clothing and their excreta . |
| 3 | She wanted the room to be tidy before they went to sleep as , after only some nine hours ' occupation , she felt a proprietorial interest in ‘ La Felicità ’ and wanted it to look its best always . |
| 4 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 5 | In 1987the Soviet Union exchanged 3,583.7 million rubles ' worth of goods with Asia ( excluding Vietnam , China , North Korea , Mongolia , Afghanistan and Japan ) , 1,399.8 million rubles ' worth with Africa and only 969.4 million rubles ' worth with Latin America ( Foreign Trade ( Moscow ) , no. 1 , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Within the elemental diet treated group , five patients with only small intestinal Crohn 's disease tended to relapse later ( mean remission period 29 weeks ) than six patients who had colonic involvement ( mean remission time 13 weeks ) , but this difference did not reach statistical significance . |
| 7 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
| 8 | Even if only one innocent person 's life is saved , it will be worthwhile . |
| 9 | In shelter , the juveniles showed two full seasons ' growth before reaching maturity and breeding at the age of 3 ( as established by Moore and Feare for British Nucella ) but in exposed sites there was only one full season 's growth and the dog-whelks bred at the age of 2 . |
| 10 | THERE was a time when the television variety spectacular threatened to take over popular entertainment completely , so that pantomime and seaside summer shows would be indistinguishable , all one poor man 's Palladium . |
| 11 | But it 's not just erm it 's not just this unemployed worker 's centre , they 're asking ten they want ten unemployed worker 's centres throughout Wales to contribute work . |
| 12 | Lucy reckoned that it was just some middle-aged woman 's thing , and left it at that . |
| 13 | Really she is just some common bricklayer 's daughter . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not some goddamned sultan 's sister . ’ |
| 15 | This does not mean that I am not going to suggest some home truths : only that I think they are truths , and not another uncomprehending outsider 's attempt to cajole , belittle or malign people who are struggling to do their best in a complex and stressful situation , and who know better than anyone else that their best sometimes is n't very good . |
| 16 | His office was just along the corridor from where Wanless now sits in his ornately furnished chief executive 's eyrie . |
| 17 | Once that poor girl 's divorce was through , he hoped that some decent kind young man would appear to make her happy , and take some of her present burdens from her . |
| 18 | One can sit leafing through glossy English magazines , reading in House and Garden about somebody 's ‘ elegantly understated ’ home in Kensington while passing within yards of a rather more understated Egyptian peasant 's home of mud-brick . |
| 19 | As with the personal allowance , older people enjoy a more generous married couple 's allowance . |
| 20 | ‘ Too English for me , ’ she will sometimes add , in her impeccably English middle-class intellectual 's voice . |
| 21 | It was all the more remarkable given Franco 's condemnation , years earlier , of the loss of the last remnants of the Spanish empire , as he saw it , without a fight , and his disapproval of General Primo de Rivera 's decision to withdraw from Morocco in the 1920s . |
| 22 | In the ensuing wide-ranging discussion a lot of attention was given to child-care problems but these were rapidly relegated to being a symptom of something far more fundamental affecting women 's progression to the board : attitude . |
| 23 | Alison MacKenzie , second year student of Maths and Computing at Stirling University played hooker for the Scottish national team in the first ever full international women 's rugby match against Ireland . |
| 24 | ‘ There is nothing to be gained by opening up this particular Pandora 's box , ’ he added . |
| 25 | A very high proportion of nearly all industrialized countries ' aid is tied to their own goods or personnel . |
| 26 | This year analysts predict turnover of at least £300 million , nearly double last year 's figure . |
| 27 | Halton maternity hospital in Banbury recently received nearly two thousand pound 's worth of life-saving equipment for their nee , neo-natal unit , as part of a grant from the baby life support systems charity . |
| 28 | She proved to be a remarkably good co-ordinator in uniting the different societies in their drive to improve conditions and by touring the country , set up local Old People 's Welfare groups to promote homes , clubs , visiting and other services . |
| 29 | Because we all our production costs commissions everything comes out that first year 's payment . |
| 30 | In 1921 , with a governor 's scholarship , he started electrical and telephony engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science and Technology , entering on the second year of the course to help his mother 's finances , and consequently was compelled to sit the far harsher external students ' examination for the first-class honours B.Sc. |