Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a solicitor 's experience of advocacy is only through magistrates courts and is completely different . |
| 2 | The report concluded that a pupil 's performance was closely related to his or her father 's occupational status : the higher that status , the better a pupil 's performance , not only in leaving school less early but in having a better academic record and , in the headmaster 's judgement , more ‘ promise ’ . |
| 3 | Suddenly a sniper 's bullet ricochets into the kitchen . |
| 4 | It is very much a system 's search mechanism as opposed to a search strategy initiated or purposefully carried out by the user . |
| 5 | ‘ But that 's pretty much a wife 's alibi , is n't it ? ’ said Sergeant Fenniway . |
| 6 | Under a female Prime Minister in 1989 , Britain was still very much a man 's world . |
| 7 | She is not an established lady in what was very much a man 's industry and is highly respected by both drivers and haulage operators over a wide area . |
| 8 | The Praemium Imperiale , one of the largest awards to artists and boastfully described by its Japanese initiators as ‘ the Nobel Prize of the arts ’ , is very much a cynic 's hoot . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's very much a driver 's car — sporty , yet comfortable , ’ says Chris , who often covers 400–500 miles at a go . |
| 10 | The nearest , the Queen 's Head , was very much a brewery 's idea of what a traditional English pub should look like . |
| 11 | The income the garbage pickers receive for each item is extremely low and reduced even further by the competition between them , which is encouraged by the system that is very much a buyer 's market . |
| 12 | It was an amazing meeting , very much a men 's meeting . |
| 13 | ‘ Not so much a willow 's twig , perhaps , as a woman 's talon . ’ |
| 14 | This is very much a woman 's weapon . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been interesting to see how much a woman 's sense of herself comes from how she looks . |
| 16 | She seems happiest in the country with her powerfully romantic interpretations of a Path through the Trees Down a Lane in Winter which she regards as very much a Traveller 's Joy . |
| 17 | ‘ IF the thing is any good you do n't get the credit because it is very much a director 's medium . |
| 18 | As to the inclusion of other properties ( eg a gardener 's cottage ) within the exemption see Lewis v Rook [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 662 . |
| 19 | I hope it is , because the wealth of climbing routes is missing from the collomb guide and the 1977 Brailsford guide is apparently a collector 's item ! |
| 20 | Basically a person 's own spiritual propensity is to be encouraged whether similar to or different from one 's own . |
| 21 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 22 | Naturally a candidate 's response may alter once our client 's identity is revealed . |
| 23 | For example , his typical scientific ‘ problem ’ — how many icebergs would be needed to supply Los Angeles with water — is merely a schoolchild 's exercise in numerical estimation , without any research content . |
| 24 | Frankie tells the audience how the Producers had wanted him to make an entrance by sliding down a fireman 's pole ! |
| 25 | Teachers have to struggle to break down a pupil 's conceptions of what is ‘ beautiful ’ , ‘ lovely ’ and nice to watch in order to release the real potential . |
| 26 | Eating dinner , Trent watched Louis run his knife down a fish 's backbone , parting the flesh with the concentration and obsessively meticulous neatness of a surgeon . |
| 27 | SHOPPERS cashed in when a power cut shut down a supermarket 's electronic tills . |
| 28 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 29 | Pupils were invited to join the poll , casting as many votes as they wished simply by writing down a teacher 's name again and again . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not the prerogative of the police to close down a coroner 's investigation . ’ |