Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This covers a person 's life for a specified term . |
| 2 | Oddly enough , Ghanashyam ( A Broken Branch ) approaches opera in the nature of the story it tells : originating in village festivities , the tale unfolds a rake 's progress towards perdition , in this case via drugs , but with an extra metaphysical twist when the spirit of the departed returns to inhabit his wife . |
| 3 | Widowed Mrs Fisher simply wants a lion 's share of peace and comfort . |
| 4 | The housekeeper 's room even contains a servants ' library with books in three categories : ‘ One of books of divinity and morality : Another for housewifry ; A third of history , true adventures , voyages and innocent amusement ’ — the last , one notes , does not seem to include the novel . |
| 5 | He is a botany graduate and has a Master 's Degree in Forestry . |
| 6 | Tess Lemmon , a freelance writer and regular contributor to BBC WILDLIFE , has a master 's degree in anthropology on the way we use images of animals to say things about ourselves . |
| 7 | Among those whom the hon. Gentleman has maligned is someone who has a decade 's experience of working in the NHS . |
| 8 | First , he has a scholar 's knowledge of , and passion for , opera — he writes many of Opera North 's programme notes , and very good they are too . |
| 9 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 10 | Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry . |
| 11 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 12 | Also known as the COCKATRICE it has a cock 's comb on its head and it is born from an egg laid by a rooster and hatched by a snake . |
| 13 | My father said that the Crown Prince has a woman 's instinct in political matters . |
| 14 | A non-graduate , or a graduate ( Law or otherwise ) who has not obtained full exemption because he lacks one or more of the ‘ core ’ subjects in his degree , is required to take the new Common Professional Examination before the Final ; and this again needs a year 's attendance at a law school . |
| 15 | DOUG MILLS/AP John Major looks on as Bill Clinton answers a reporter 's question at the White House |
| 16 | It measures a country 's competitiveness in world markets . |
| 17 | These normally private functions can assume unusually large proportions if illness limits a person 's capacity for self care . |
| 18 | Hollway , for example , quotes a man 's description of his split relationship with a woman as ‘ shrivelled ’ ( Henriques et al . |
| 19 | What had influenced Hollywood , thought Moley , was the ample evidence that ‘ the generality of the public takes its movies seriously and is adversely responsive to any effort which offers the least suspicion that they are being used for some purpose other than entertainment ’ and that in particular ‘ nothing hurts a picture 's chance of success more than the whisper that it contains propaganda ’ . |
| 20 | The author 's face wears a witch 's smile of appreciation . |
| 21 | That he wears a soldier 's plume without meriting it is meant to show that he is a bluff . |
| 22 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 23 | Hutchison Telecommunications UK Ltd 's Hutchison Paging has launched a financial services pager for private investors in a joint venture with the Financial Times Cityline stocks and shares information line : the pager covers 3,000 shares and within one minute of a chosen counter reaching a pre-set value , the pager automatically bleeps and displays a phone number , which can be called to hear the details ; the pager costs £160 plus tax , and includes a year 's subscription to the service , which will cost £100 plus tax for subsequent years . |
| 24 | If a painter decorates his own house , nobody would argue that he should pay tax on the non-existent earnings ; but what if he decorates a friend 's house in return for some help with fixing his car ? |
| 25 | Figure 8 shows a computer 's rendering of a plane and its image ( a sphere ) after inversion . |
| 26 | My family will squeak with outrage when he turns a biologist 's eye on art and on drug abuse and suggests they are status indicators for age-old sexual selection . |
| 27 | L'heureux jaloux has a ‘ jealousy ’ air and lengthy recitative with modulations only to flat keys ( movements 7–8 ) in F minor , which transforms a lover 's tiff into a miniature tragedy . |
| 28 | Other profoundly moving gestures are to be found in MacMillan 's The Invitation and particularly in his Requiem when he evokes a child 's wonder of life in the solo , Pie Jesu ( see page 136 ) . |
| 29 | Squadron Leader Archibald Liggat , of RAF Valley , receives a Queen 's Commendation for his exceptional diligence and professionalism as a Phantom pilot . |
| 30 | He wins a year 's subscription to PFK . |