Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
7 Under a female Prime Minister in 1989 , Britain was still very much a man 's world .
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 ‘ It 's been interesting to see how much a woman 's sense of herself comes from how she looks .
15 This is very much a woman 's weapon .
16 ‘ IF the thing is any good you do n't get the credit because it is very much a director 's medium .
17 As to the inclusion of other properties ( eg a gardener 's cottage ) within the exemption see Lewis v Rook [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 662 .
18 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 !
19 Naturally a candidate 's response may alter once our client 's identity is revealed .
20 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 .
21 Frankie tells the audience how the Producers had wanted him to make an entrance by sliding down a fireman 's pole !
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ It is not the prerogative of the police to close down a coroner 's investigation . ’
26 His Spanish ADC , General Alava , however , remembered to his dying day the way his heart sank on hearing his Commander cheerfully giving orders for ‘ cold meat at dawn ’ before a long day 's reconnaissance , or perhaps a day 's hunting in Portugal with his ‘ family ’ .
27 It was perhaps a coward 's answer , and he was honest enough to admit it .
28 plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ?
29 I 've got a classic on the T V in a few , in perhaps a hour 's time .
30 As a rule they are only killed for food ( and then only cocks or old hens ) when an important visitor comes to the homestead , perhaps a prince 's son or perhaps a father-in-law .
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