Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked . |
2 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
3 | In this case , the idea for a new church was in the leader 's mind for over a year before conception . |
4 | It may be that at a low level of a graduated test scheme teachers may wish to acknowledge a pupil 's recognition of only an equilateral or isosceles triangle as a triangle . |
5 | When the Emperor Frederick II appealed to the cardinals to convoke a general council of prelates and other faithful in Christ to judge him , he must have had in mind Innocent 's council of nearly a quarter of a century earlier . |
6 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
7 | Accommodation is available at Mylne 's Court on either a full-board or a self-catering basis . |
8 | Günther Schneider-Siemssen was Roller to Karajan 's Mahler for over a quarter of a century . |
9 | Much work has been done on children 's understanding of how a person 's beliefs determine that person 's actions , but less is known about their conception of the role of motivation in action . |
10 | Choose ripe shoots from this year 's growth of roughly a pencil 's thickness . |
11 | In the next section , I proceed to summarize Kuhn 's account of how a paradigm can run into trouble and be replaced by a rival . |
12 | It reminds me a bit of Wittgenstein 's account of how a child might be trained in the practice of ‘ narration of past events ’ : |
13 | This is in line with the industry 's contribution of about a quarter of the ‘ Gross Highland product ’ . |
14 | Miloš , however , was not interested , and after wasting Vuk 's time for over a year he let the scholar return to Austria empty-handed . |
15 | There has been no major study of prisoners ' families for nearly a quarter of a century , and what has been done tends to remain firmly outside the prison walls . |