Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wages councils ' minimum rates are far from a pathway to comfort and security , but they do often make the difference between keeping a family 's head above the water and going under . |
| 2 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 3 | Although she could not resist adopting a dancer 's grace for the performance , the mocking allusion to the demeaning domestication of women was clear enough , though this theme has been treated with far more wit and poignant effect by other artists ( notably Bobby Baker ) . |
| 4 | His father is first traced as opening a tailor 's shop at 34 Milk Street , Bristol , in 1803 , where he lived and continued his trade until 1831 . |
| 5 | But apply to the European Tour for a spot in its qualifying scheme and your chances of gaining a Player 's card at the end of it are a measly one in 20 . |
| 6 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 7 | It said that there was ‘ no empirical evidence for correlating a politician 's effectiveness in office with his or her sexual orientation ’ ; it was critical of ‘ a large reason for electing a party being because its leader is fortunate in his [ sic ] marriage ’ ; it claimed that the family had been ‘ elevated into the status of party policy . |
| 8 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |
| 9 | sixpence , robbing a farmer 's boy of , |
| 10 | Devlin was apprehended in the course of robbing a jeweller 's shop in Fernley Shopping Centre … ’ |
| 11 | As Ortega and Paul Ricoeur have argued , a metaphor affirms and denies an identity between two things : in likening a girl 's cheek to a rose we may be impressed by the similarity but are aware of the difference . |
| 12 | This is an important aspect of the process of developing a school 's strategy of in-service education but it also enables other parties to share in the awareness of what has been achieved and what needs improvement . |
| 13 | A consortium of Irish businessmen acquired the walled estate in 1987 and have invested IR£20 million in developing a sportsman 's paradise amid majestic woods and rolling parkland . |
| 14 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
| 15 | Last week two nurses were sacked for dressing a pig 's head as a patient and parading it in front of acutely disturbed women . |
| 16 | Above all , are they a reliable basis for believing a school 's assurance about quality ? |
| 17 | ‘ She 's not as wide as she looks , ’ says Dominique excitedly , pausing a hair 's breadth from a bus . |
| 18 | The important point is not whether Luther and Calvin happened to make peremptory remarks , exuding a lifetime 's confidence in a pre-Copernican cosmology , but whether their exegetical principles implied an inevitable clash as the new system gained in plausibility . |
| 19 | The first is that in making a prohibited steps order prohibiting the parents from having any contact with each other the justices erred in law as contact between adults is not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting a parent 's responsibility for a child and thus falls outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 , by which a prohibited steps order means an order that no step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his parental responsibility for a child and which is of a kind specified in the order shall be taken by any person without the consent of the court . |
| 20 | However , the scope for publishing a defendant 's side of the story prior to trial is wider than is commonly believed . |
| 21 | Lesley-Anne Cull , who is writing a parents ' handbook on the subject , would like to hear from you . |
| 22 | He held it there , and with the other hand cradled one of the globes of her breasts and jounced it , like a buyer testing a melon 's weight in the market . |
| 23 | And today 's slippery aerodynamics , whilst improving a vehicle 's penetration through the air , actually divert the flow of cooling air away from the engine bay . |
| 24 | There has always been a self-proclaimed tendency to look behind the scenes , to see where power really lies , to explore and explode the myths surrounding a society 's image of itself and its political system . |
| 25 | However , reversal from left to right visual field superiority was observed by Kaufer , Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) when they investigated the effect of presenting a Landolt 's ring at fixation for subjects to report the position of a small gap in the ring prior to recalling the stimuli presented in the left and right visual fields . |
| 26 | Marion Harvie , a tippler , was charged in 1646 for turning a guest 's horse on the Down . |
| 27 | In this chapter , we are concerned primarily with the problems of defining and measuring a country 's stock of money and with describing the methods employed in the United Kingdom to influence the money supply . |
| 28 | Erm the process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |
| 29 | Maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena , that 's a very good start . |
| 30 | The process of maintaining a state 's interest in the international arena . |