Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , at least , the bat 's sensation of her mate may be no more different from my visual sensation of a flamingo , than my visual sensation of a flamingo is different from a flamingo 's visual sensation of a flamingo . |
| 2 | They give rise to behavioural responses to external stimuli that are enduring and consistent within a person 's psychological constitution . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the space beneath a car is much more accessible to a cat 's small body and the damage is easily done . |
| 4 | Certainly , these early learning years are crucial to a child 's educational development . |
| 5 | Effective RE must therefore be concerned with the building-up of concepts which are worthy of a person 's total development , emotional , experiential and intellectual , and which fairly represent what is at the heart of all great religious traditions . |
| 6 | He was well aware of her view that spy stories were Boy 's Own Paper stuff , not worthy of a moment 's serious attention . |
| 7 | UNPERTURBED by a visitor 's forthright ‘ cross examination ’ , museum information officer Lynn Miller ( left ) is pictured identifying early Wedgwood ware at a museum in the Netherlands , the company 's oldest export market dating back to 1763 . |
| 8 | In the context of sociological research into child abuse , it is important to consider what is likely to be distinctive about a sociologist 's ethnographic account . |
| 9 | The newer system is cheaper to make , safer , and the tubes are still effective after a year 's continual use . |
| 10 | Her mouth was clumsy and awkward like a child 's good night , and when she spoke the words vibrated inside my mouth . |
| 11 | Yet , the benefit inherent in a holder 's right to sue the carrier may well be worth the burden of having to pay unpaid freight . |
| 12 | ‘ My arse and thighs are sore from a day 's hard riding . |
| 13 | Sometimes such attitudes are secondary to a patient 's current mood state ; in other cases they are long-standing and firmly established . |
| 14 | She was bone-weary from a day 's back-breaking labour , but it was essential that she finish what she was writing , for she had a deadline to reach and that deadline was the day after tomorrow , her half-day , and she had barely begun her task . |
| 15 | We are able to arrange all types of insurance , tailor-made to a client 's specific requirements . |
| 16 | Hungry as we are today for the luxury of authenticity and for visual elegance , we find that the Potter 's work makes enticing reading : " How delicious to a schoolboy 's healthy appetite sixty years ago , was a potted meat at breakfast in my grandmother 's old Wiltshire home . |
| 17 | These are the shellfish of legend , capable of snapping shut on a diver 's unwary foot , holding on until his air runs out . |
| 18 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 19 | Janice believes that children should know when they are going beyond what is acceptable and that a clear framework of conduct is necessary for a child 's proper development . |
| 20 | This experience of a tight community of shared aspiration is rare in a novelist 's lonely life . |
| 21 | The initials stand for Tax Exempt Special Savings Account , but according to a recent survey not everyone it seems is aware of a Tessa 's principal attraction — its tax free label . |
| 22 | A list thus compiled will derive from choices more intelligently made and more efficiently expressed than any that could emerge from a primary ; and if in recording regional judgements it should not be entirely pleasing to a party 's national headquarters , so much , most provincials would say , the better . |
| 23 | SLEEPY staff at The Times were left red-faced by a prankster 's naughty note . |