Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of this occurred where a daughter 's care for her dependent father was continually met with ingratitude and unkindness . |
| 2 | Suffering is used in this sense in s1 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 which provides that where a plaintiff 's expectation of life has been reduced the court in awarding damages for pain and suffering shall take into account the suffering caused or likely to be caused by awareness that his expectation of life has been so reduced . |
| 3 | The artist 's sketches and scribbles are analysed to demonstrate recurring motifs and psychological preoccupations guilt at the death of Casegemas or a mistress 's abortion for example while figures such as Alfred Jarry , Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein are brought to life in Richardson 's simple , flowing prose . |
| 4 | This included a stern order to attend a wine and cheese party in Kensington the following week at which I would be able to collect one of the following gifts ; an environmentally friendly tofu griddle and rotisserie ; postdated shopping vouchers for the Sock Shop , Tie Rack , Next , Laura Ashley , Habitat , Heals and the Conran Shop ; a holiday in Nepal ; or a year 's supply of irradiated fruit . |
| 5 | ‘ Will Kenneth Clarke tell my five-year-old daughter why she will not get a bike or a doll 's house for Christmas ? |
| 6 | And the man in question is not a philosophical or statistical abstraction from reality , but the reality itself ; not a theoretician 's concept to play a mechanical part in a Marxist phenomenology of history or a philosopher-king 's model of ideal society , but flesh and blood ; the thinking and feeling individual whose right it is to make his life , including his working life , as fully as possible his own in a society the essential purpose of which should be to maximise his chances of doing so . |
| 7 | Once a week guests are offered a candlelit dinner , also a barbecue if the weather is fine , or a farmers ' buffet at which Austrian specialities are served . |
| 8 | The diagnosis is often obvious from the patient 's history of pre-occupation with dieting and body shape or a relative 's concern about weight-losing behaviour , social withdrawal , and depression . |
| 9 | Alan Hey , who graduated in that year and now works in Sheffield , is planning a party for students who studied for a Diploma in Ceramics or a Manager 's Diploma in Ceramics . |
| 10 | Human capital examples include a manager 's knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of his firm 's administrative system , or a team 's knowledge of the comparative advantages of its members and thus of how tasks can be allocated most efficiently within the team . |
| 11 | The sentences must have a rise and full , an ability to flow onwards with pauses for breath , like full stops , or a moment 's silence for the onlookers to assess what has just been stated and to understand its purpose and place in the design before the dance continues . |
| 12 | Originally a Celtic nature-goddess , depicted as a woman astride a mare , or a woman 's torso with a horse 's head . |
| 13 | There can be little doubt that Nizan was ideologically committed to the view that a writer 's allegiance to communism enabled him/her to grasp the true significance of political developments from the inside , that is to say , from the perspective of the proletariat . |
| 14 | We shall not pursue this further except to remark that a subject 's consent to be part of an experiment is always obtained . |
| 15 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 16 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 17 | Locke also suggests that a man 's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system . |
| 18 | She said drily : ‘ I imagine that a man 's idea of the ideal secretary is a woman who manages to imply that she would like to go to bed with her boss but nobly restrains herself in the interests of office efficiency . |
| 19 | Congregations will insist on hearing candidates preach sermons which may have taken weeks to prepare or to speak more correctly which some of them never prepared , whereas they forget that a man 's work in his own parish is the best possible testimony as to who and what he is , and one that can easily and accurately be ascertained . |
| 20 | He was , however , dissuaded from holding that a man 's belief in consent must be reasonable because of the wording of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 , s.1 , which provides that it is an offence for a man to rape a woman . |
| 21 | It was put to me recently that a guitar 's country of origin is irrelevant when determining its overall quality in the market place . |
| 22 | I believe that a Christian 's position on this matter recognises the necessity for state action but goes on to argue that much of education , health and other welfare services could be quite adequately provided through the private sector , with the result that people would be free to exercise greater freedom of choice and also exercise greater responsibility over their lives . |
| 23 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 24 | Previous research has shown that a child 's skill in recognising facial expressions of emotion is strongly and positively associated with his or her social popularity : socially isolated children tend to be less able than their more popular counterparts to recognise facial expressions of emotion . |
| 25 | Bryant and Bradley conclude that a child 's awareness of the sounds in words , revealed by their ability to detect rhyme and alliteration , ‘ has a powerful influence on their eventual success in learning to read and spell ’ . |
| 26 | The second thing is that a child 's fear of failure is probably greater than you think . |
| 27 | This provision shall not be taken as prejudicing a finding to the effect that a person 's occupation of any land is by implied permission of the person entitled to the land in any case where such a finding is justified on the actual facts of the case … |
| 28 | Section 2(1) provides , inter alia , that a person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it . |
| 29 | Choice theories frequently insist that a person 's duty under a contract is to perform his obligation and that accordingly the courts should use every available means to secure compliance with that duty , including threats of fines , penal damages and imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 30 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |