Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 32 | As long as the driver 's to go through Halam and not |
| 33 | As long as the factory 's here I 'll be here I would . |
| 34 | Er as long as the weather 's decent really , I know we 're only gon na go for three days so |
| 35 | ‘ It 's cold , but as long as the baby 's well wrapped up it 'll do no harm . |
| 36 | The words on the page constitute a lifeless text until the poem is evoked ( literally , ‘ called forth ’ ) by the reader , who is given an autonomy as powerful as the writer 's when she gets deep into a text , using all her mental , emotional and physical experiences — and makes a poem of it : evokes it . |
| 37 | Every time I think about it I 'm either too busy or the weather 's too rotten , when I 'm not tired the weather 's pouring with rain or bitterly cold or . |
| 38 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 39 | He was backed by the Brewers ' Association of Scotland , which said the real price increases on the pint across the bars of pubs would be considerably more than the Chancellor 's claimed increase of 1.5p per pint . |
| 40 | The largest litter produced by any placental mammal is even more than the opossum 's — thirty-two . |
| 41 | But , as we have seen , there is more than the student 's gaining a relativize sense of the knowledge encountered on a course . |
| 42 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
| 43 | Although the books have been translated into Latin ( the most gentle of language teaching aids ) , it is unlikely that the film 's dubbing team will have to contend with ablative absolutes . |
| 44 | Again the short answer is simple , but this time the other way about : because the wages paid to a " compess " , while less than a man 's , were high compared to the wages a girl could earn elsewhere . |
| 45 | A FAMILY of four can enjoy a healthy diet for less than the Government 's estimated £10 a person a week , according to a new recipe booklet from The Sugar Bureau . |
| 46 | an electric drill in this house any more cos the handle 's |
| 47 | Nevertheless , the classification in terms of the legal nature of the transaction is important and the author 's suggested approach is to look at the predominant purpose of the transaction . |
| 48 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 49 | A sob , swiftly repressed , rose in her throat ; she was condemning herself to a life as lonely as the seagull 's looked , but it , at least , could find a mate — she would never be able to do that . |
| 50 | But she wo n't be so busy when the summer 's over . |
| 51 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 52 | The gift is the largest since the gallery 's founding in 1832 . |
| 53 | Their bite is worse than a horse 's — |
| 54 | an octave higher than a blackbird 's , |
| 55 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |
| 56 | I 'm just not available until the baby 's born . ’ |
| 57 | Here in the Cabinet Office it 's twenty to twelve and the canteen 's not shut already — it still has n't opened . |
| 58 | It turns out that the Baron is short of certain body parts ( also a bit like Mark ! ) which are essential if the experiment 's to run smoothly . |
| 59 | If you kind of drop down behind the blue if you use the blue first and the bat 's up there you got ta go sort of near to it to get behind you 're going to rush down to your hoop . |
| 60 | But the critical thing with I twelve as the policy 's currently drafted is that it is location specific . |