Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors to the National Fishing Heritage Centre sign on as a crew member of a 1950 's steam trawler and journey to the Arctic fishing grounds . |
| 2 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 3 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 4 | It was a very different beauty from that of a 1930 's Alden ketch or a clipper-bowed Herreshof schooner so admired by the traditionalists . |
| 5 | Reproduction of a 1930 's advertisement for the Air-o-bian controllable Box kite . |
| 6 | States are free to waive , renounce , or dispose of a national 's rights or interests by treaty unless restricted by national law . |
| 7 | Dickinson saw his face , heavy-eyed and working like a drunk 's . |
| 8 | For example , there are Almond Oil capsules for strong nails , Peachnut Oil capsules for glossy hair , and Avocado Oil capsules for healthy skin , each priced at £3.99 for a month 's supply of 30 capsules . |
| 9 | Dressing up as a 50 's teenager is encouraged but by no means compulsory and any man dusting off his dad 's winkle pickers gets an award for merit ! |
| 10 | The second is nothing but a single-engined airliner with a 737 's rate-of-climb and rate-of-descent capabilities , able to mix with Dash 8s or ATRs along the airways . |
| 11 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 12 | A unique ‘ Glasgow night scene ’ with a 1930 's vintage electric tramcar is seen alongside pictorial displays showing the rise and fall of tramway systems of the years , resulting in their virtual demise in the 1950's . |
| 13 | And begins rummaging through Rainbow 's desk drawers and chaotic cupboards , with a catburglar 's speed and skill . |
| 14 | I was lucky I went straight into a trusty 's job , and I could work at weekends as well , and I earned good money : £2.63 a week . |
| 15 | Black as an Ethiopian 's armpit . ’ |
| 16 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 17 | I do n't live as he does with my ‘ nan ’ in a 1930 's council flat in Tottenham . |
| 18 | The Jimmy Stewart of American comedy , with his four piece suit and his gentlemanly ways , he 's a 40 's guy in a 90 's world . |
| 19 | That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer . |
| 20 | the subordinate 's ability and experience must be borne in mind when allocating tasks and responsibilities , since it is highly damaging to allocate tasks beyond a subordinate 's capabilities ; and |
| 21 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |
| 22 | The Vung Tau Cargo , snagged in a Vietnamese fisherman 's nets , looks like being a repeat of the astonishing success of the Nanking Cargo — 150,000 pieces of mid-18th-century porcelain plus 126 gold bars — salvaged by an ex-Barnardo 's boy , Michael Hatcher , and auctioned in 1986 . |