Example sentences of "of a [noun] 's [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had the quiet secluded air of a gentleman 's private residence about it . |
| 2 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 3 | At one point he rephrases the central dilemma of innovation and in so doing he implies that the most important characteristic of a school 's internal organisation is a ‘ collaborative professional relationship ’ among teachers . |
| 4 | We noted at the start of this chapter that our study of school management was not intended to be comprehensive : our concern was the management of PNP rather than that of every aspect of a school 's professional work . |
| 5 | What of the merits of a school 's pastoral care of pupils , the extra curricular sporting and other activities , school visits at home and abroad , foreign exchanges , the youth club , school productions , links with industry , links with the community , and much more , including things that never become public knowledge ? |
| 6 | It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it . |
| 7 | to assist in the evaluation of a school 's overall performance . |
| 8 | An example of this can be seen in the list in Parsons and Steadman ( 1984 , pp. 43–50 ) of a school 's possible objectives set against possible means of achieving these . |
| 9 | At the same time there is now a more direct intervention in the nature of a school 's educational work through the introduction of the National Curriculum , bringing with it a greater concern for monitoring . |
| 10 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 11 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 12 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 13 | If surprise were a central system function then we would not , indeed , blink because the blink would be controlled by our knowledge of a friend 's good nature . |
| 14 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 15 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 16 | On top of a worker 's take-home pay , we are charged 53% of it in social security payments — that is 15% employee 's contribution and 38% employer 's . |
| 17 | Woman-centred psychology 's humanism tends to reduce the world to a scaled-up version of a subject 's psychic conflicts and commitments . |
| 18 | In addition to the contribution of the Development Adviser , there are five areas of activity which contribute to the fulfilment of a member 's personal development needs . |
| 19 | In examining the pay advantage of married men over bachelors , we tentatively concluded that for men , but not women , acquiring a spouse leads to higher pay , and perhaps productivity — an indirect contribution to the economy of a wife 's domestic work . |
| 20 | The fundamental idea is to determine the identity of a word 's morphological root during system development . |
| 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 | This sum is then included as part of a claimant 's taxable income during the relevant tax year . |
| 23 | You will , however , probably need to draw your own soft furnishings , since our colonial cousins seem to favour settees the size of a stuntman 's soft landing pad . |
| 24 | This option enables you to display a list of a user 's immediate relations , both up and down the family tree . |
| 25 | Users can be forced to change their passwords at set intervals , and you can examine an audit trail of a user 's previous passwords , and set up temporary accounts . |
| 26 | One of the most important aspects of a writer 's creative personality is the degree to which he or she is sensitive and responsive to changes in public tastes , and is able to sense when such changes are in the ascendancy , acceptable to the vast majority of people , and can be successfully used within an advertising context . |
| 27 | His initial reservations expressed here suggest that he , like many of us , has spanned an era of reaction against the worst excesses of cut-throat competitiveness and artificiality of performance in favour of the process of a child 's personal experience . |
| 28 | The traditional view of cell suicide focuses on development : it helps the tadpole to lose its tail ; it dissolves the tissues of the caterpillar when the time comes for change into a moth ; in a mother 's womb , it severs the webs between the digits of a child 's developing hands and feet . |
| 29 | In Freedom and Resentment ( 1974 , p. 19 ) Strawson talks not of a child 's emerging autonomy but of ‘ the progressive emergence of the child as a responsible being ’ . |
| 30 | A separate issue concerns whether adults who care for or teach children who have impaired language adopt appropriate forms of speech and styles of interaction in the light of a child 's specific difficulties . |