Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became an extremely successful series , done with Professor Chris Kiernan , with a special agenda for mentally-handicapped children but appearing like a rather glossy children 's comic . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , indeed I did , ’ he said brightly , as though he merely indulged a rather dim child 's curiosity . |
| 3 | Johnson and Boswell sauntered through the castle , as they could today , where many of the artefacts are preserved in a museum ; they looked at Rorie More 's drinking-horn — Boswell 's description is clearer than Johnson 's — ‘ a rather large cow 's horn , with the mouth of it ornamented with silver curiously carved ’ . |
| 4 | All in all , it is a most fascinating outsider 's insight into our industrial history . |
| 5 | Provided breeding is selective , it is a most useful smallholder 's animal , giving perhaps 3,000kg of milk at more than 4 per cent butterfat and also providing good , small beef carcasses which are ideal for home freezers and small-scale catering . |
| 6 | On an upright chair sat a young man — shaven-headed and bovver- booted — who had come for treatment for ‘ a most embarrassing men 's illness ’ ( he would not elaborate ) which had not improved with orthodox therapy . |
| 7 | This tactic of reference combines an admired or revered position with an effective individual to increase a less powerful person 's clout . |
| 8 | 14 , it is more reasonable to ascribe the latter pavement to an assistant of a more competent mosaicist 's workshop . |
| 9 | Our modern Munchhausen has , however , found a more remarkable mare 's nest still : he has discovered the ‘ false slogan , characteristic of a false era , that everyone is entitled to know everything ’ . |
| 10 | There is a strong moral argument within the labour movement , that rejoke rejects workfare and other half-baked schemes which do not give a fair day 's work for a real fair day 's pay . |
| 11 | The producer had been satisfied with snipping out from the same review the words , ‘ a thoroughly solid evening 's entertainment ’ , to join the other encomiums that guarded the Variety 's portals . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it is a great way to give something back to the donors because they can have a thoroughly enjoyable evening 's entertainment while raising money for good causes . ’ |
| 13 | This is a fairly standard tenant 's covenant and basically acceptable , although the following comments are worth noting : Despite the landlord 's common law right to distress , some tenants object to the sight of a reference to bailiffs in leases and prefer it to be deleted . |
| 14 | The fog swirled , and hushed commands were passed , as the Glasgow Central Pest Control service team entered the Laser Drome in Glasgow for a fairly normal day 's work . |
| 15 | Doddie 's had , finger-written on the side of a typically cared-for farmer 's car : ‘ Sponsored by his dad . ’ |
| 16 | Then we decorated the school ready for a really splendid children 's tea in the afternoon , which was usually followed by a lantern slide show in the evening for the parents , also very enjoyable . |
| 17 | It was a really enjoyable afternoon 's tennis . |
| 18 | Donald Roy 's assault party joined him and John Roderick 's men came back , crossing a now silent Campbeltown 's bow . |
| 19 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 20 | Arriving back from a particularly hard night 's clubbing . |
| 21 | Aggie took a surprisingly clean man 's handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to Millie . |
| 22 | In the 1980s the government-funded Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) sponsored a scheme whereby the employer paid a percentage of the salary and costs of a partially disabled person 's employment in proportion to the individual 's assessed percentage contribution to the job in terms of how it would be performed by an average non-disabled person ; MSC paid the balance . |
| 23 | it be known then for that squad just to go right through the gambit and become a fully fledged riveter 's squad and work for their days as a squad ? |
| 24 | Even the victims of rape , those endangering their lives , young and old and all other people in difficult situations are unable to look after themselves and maybe stop a potentially disturbing child 's life because of the decisions made by higher authorities . |
| 25 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 26 | Some carers feel a relatively able Down 's person is not sufficiently competent to vote . |
| 27 | The diagram looks like a closely woven spider 's web . |
| 28 | In a newly refurbished children 's ward in the Withers Block , debris had fallen on a father who was nursing his baby daughter . |
| 29 | In particular , a newly refurbished children 's ward in the Withers block was damaged , with debris falling on a father who was nursing his baby daughter . |
| 30 | If there have n't been any it has been a pretty poor day 's play . ’ |