Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 2 | The vast rooms were crammed with a rich man 's equivalent of Stanley 's jumble-filled stables . |
| 3 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 4 | Someone 's made a right pig 's ear of them , and that 's a fact . |
| 5 | She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | Throughout his life Blumlein was a trustworthy and loyal man with a passionate interest in the arts , music , and aviation — he held a private pilot 's licence from 1929 and often flew a biplane or Moth . |
| 7 | PaT 's campaign for more vigorous enforcement of this law has led to the introduction of a Private Member 's Bill into the House of Commons which is now in the final stages of its passage through Parliament and will become law later in 1991 . |
| 8 | For example , in early 1983 MP Jack Ashley was attempting to secure the passage of a Private Member 's Bill through parliament which would require pharmaceutical companies to establish a ‘ no blame compensation fund ’ . |
| 9 | But secularizing moves by the English liberals — over the Education Bills of 1902 , 1906 , and a private member 's Bill of 1911 — led the Irish hierarchy to question some of the political intentions of the Irish politicians , who it was feared might sell out the church 's interest in schools . |
| 10 | There the debate rested until Norman St John Stevas MP brought a private member 's bill to the House of Commons . |
| 11 | The Labour MP John Stonehouse had a private member 's bill on the subject about to begin its passage through the Commons . |
| 12 | So Lord Campbell of Alloway is trying to go it alone with a private member 's bill in the House of Lords . |
| 13 | He got his chance when Manchester MP Alf Morris won the ballot to introduce a private member 's Bill in Parliament . |
| 14 | An almost identical Bill was introduced as a private member 's Bill in the 1973–74 session and successfully completed its passage through the House of Lords , when it fell at its Second Reading in the House of Commons on the dissolution of Parliament . |
| 15 | The Control of Pollution ( Amendment ) Act , introduced by Joan Ruddock as a private member 's bill in July 1989 , has not been effective in stopping the activities of the tippers . |
| 16 | This was introduced by the Civic Amenities Act 1967 ( promoted as a private member 's Bill by Duncan Sandys , President of the Civic Trust , and passed with government backing ) . |
| 17 | The bill was initially suggested by Friends of the Earth , and introduced as a private member 's motion by Conservative MP Keith Mans. * Motor traffic in the UK grew by 3 per cent overall during 1991 . |
| 18 | The holder may supply liquor to persons taking table meals on the premises , to residents or private friends of residents being bona fide entertained by them , to the private friends for their own or the resident 's consumption , and to a resident for his own or a private friend 's consumption with a meal supplied at the premises but to be consumed off them . |
| 19 | The presence on German territory of Soviet troops ( currently numbering 380,000 in East Germany ) for more than " a short transitional period " would infringe the country 's sovereignty , he said , and the question of a unified Germany 's membership of NATO had to be clarified before unification . |
| 20 | Motoring : A lead-free lover 's guide to used cars : Drivers with a tight budget and an environmental conscience can buy second-hand without losing principles , says James Ruppert |
| 21 | These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street . |
| 22 | It 's less easy to match a specific publisher 's market with fiction than with factual writing , but you can at least make sure that you do n't send a modern comedy to a publisher of historical romances . |
| 23 | An interesting point is that the words " yielding and paying " actually imply a covenant to pay the rent , but it is more usual to have a specific tenant 's covenant in this regard . |
| 24 | The problem.solving framework , in contrast , ensures that the information that emerges regarding a specific pupil 's difficulty in its context is generated in such a way that it also helps teachers in general — whether or not they know the pupil under discussion — to learn to ask themselves the kinds of questions that are helpful whenever problems arise in any pupil 's learning situation . |
| 25 | When yobs threw a mutilated pig 's head into the Pakistani enclave it was a surprise that the nastiest incident since the 1845 battle of Firozshah failed to erupt . |
| 26 | But to Paula Ladies ' Fashions was a veritable Aladdin 's cave of delights . |
| 27 | Many drivers cheerfully collected loads that were offered from all over the city , and gradually with their help and that of certain ‘ able-bodied men and women ’ mountains of books accumulated in the Davidson Room , while the Undercroft cupboard soon became a veritable Aladdin 's Cave of ‘ Unwanted Gifts ’ . |
| 28 | A sweet shop then was a veritable Aladdin 's Cave for children , for most sweets were sold loose . |
| 29 | Labour contender Ashok Kumar has expressed support for a junior doctors ' campaign for shorter working hours . |
| 30 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |