Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the statistics on intra-trade are not wholly attributable to a country 's membership of the EC . |
| 2 | A woman 's dress sense is much less important to more educated men than to those with basic education , while married men are less interested in a woman 's mouth than any other group . |
| 3 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 4 | Are you really so unaccustomed to a man 's kisses ? ’ |
| 5 | There 's nought so bleak on a winter 's night |
| 6 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 7 | Never before had she been so aware of a man 's nakedness , of the beauty in a man 's strong , well-proportioned frame . |
| 8 | Partners are jointly and severally liable for a partnership 's debts , and their dealings with each other require the utmost good faith ; implicit in this is that they all know each other , including their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies . |
| 11 | Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors . |
| 12 | It is likely to be a depressing experience if one is already tired after a day 's work and possibly even more frustrating with background noise and dim lights . |
| 13 | It is nearly always female and her voice is usually heard wailing near the family 's ancestral home just prior to a person 's death . |
| 14 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 15 | Our hands are always more receptive to a person 's aura if we have just massaged that person . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the space beneath a car is much more accessible to a cat 's small body and the damage is easily done . |
| 17 | The rugged , weatherbeaten face , with its look of dependable fortitude , would have looked more appropriate above a seaman 's guernsey , preferably with RNLI woven across the chest . |
| 18 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
| 19 | The newer system is cheaper to make , safer , and the tubes are still effective after a year 's continual use . |
| 20 | Although these games are only part of the phoney war the results are still important to a country 's prestige and confidence and Brazil would love to add England to their victims when they visit Wembley at the end of March . |
| 21 | But , then , men were always blind to a woman 's wiles . |
| 22 | Few people will be able to complete the route in one go , but luckily it is accessible by public transport at a number of staging points , so it can be split into chunks more manageable in a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 23 | I live in Greater London where tap water is hardly suitable for a dog 's bowl , let alone an aquarium . |
| 24 | ‘ A man can be dead tired after a week 's work but he can still give his wife a helping hand . |
| 25 | A woman 's work is slightly different to a man 's work . |
| 26 | One of the most important of a lawyer 's accomplishments is the ability to resolve facts into their legal categories . |
| 27 | That is to say , he stands between the client and the outcome of his instruction and is therefore identified as the one most responsible for a project 's success or failure . |
| 28 | Before that , she worked as a secretary , but in 1972 she was really tired of a secretary 's life . |
| 29 | Assessment which is used for providing feedback to those most centrally concerned with a pupil 's learning , the pupil , the pupil 's teacher and parents , is often known as " formative " in contrast to " summative " which is mainly for external purposes . |
| 30 | When feedback to those centrally concerned with a pupil 's education is required then information on what the pupil knows and can do would be more valuable . |