Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the fresh fruit brulée we recommend Sainsbury 's Muscat de St Jean de Minervois , £2.79 for a half bottle or the classic Sainsbury 's Premières Côtes de Bordeaux , at the excellent price of £4.05 . |
| 2 | If you find yourself yearning for a relationship with someone where the feelings are not mutual , or the other person 's love has died , ask yourself what aspect of you that person represents . |
| 3 | Is she John 's daughter or the other guy 's ? |
| 4 | Whether it is one side 's cry of the ‘ radical uncertainty ’ of authentic faith or the other side 's reiteration of the ‘ leap of faith ’ , we are offered an imposing edifice of faith with little or no mention of foundations . |
| 5 | His chief officers formed a board which had a very considerable measure of authority to determine its own ways ( witness , for example , the Western Region 's adventure with diesel-hydraulic locomotives when the remainder of British Railways was following the diesel-electric path , or the Eastern Region 's policy of civil engineering for speed ) . |
| 6 | According to Sakhat Muradov , Chair of the Turkmen Supreme Soviet , the new council 's supervisory role would not weaken presidential authority or the Supreme Soviet 's legislative function ; it was empowered to rule on " the most important questions " of economic and political life in Turkmenistan , and could also call for changes to the constitution and express no confidence in the President should he break the law . |
| 7 | How can we decide whose point of view is the right one , ours or the long-lived alien 's ? |
| 8 | The crucial question , however , is how much opportunity critical ministers are afforded in full Cabinet when it comes to reshaping or even reopening decisions reached in Cabinet committees , those ad hoc meetings or the Prime Minister 's ‘ judge and jury ’ sessions . |
| 9 | Mr Gorbachev could not care less whether Romania endorses perestroika and glasnost or the Soviet Union 's foreign policies . |
| 10 | While the vast majority of those in work claim the relevant personal allowances — such as the single person 's or the married man 's tax allowance — even these are of most value to high earners who are able to set the allowances against the top rate of tax for which they are liable . |
| 11 | Bartram then told Miller about his method of collecting specimens of pines ; when they are in flower and the young cone just impregnated , and asked whether European pines set their cones on the same spring 's shoot , ‘ or the second year 's wood , as by your draught , the Scotch Pine doth ? ’ |
| 12 | Alas , they had reckoned without Britain 's quaint electoral law , or the Labour Party 's officious solicitors , Irwin Mitchell . |
| 13 | She does not base her decisions solely on the consensus of the group or the individual child 's desires , but also does not regard herself as infallible or divinely inspired . |
| 14 | and it 's not Street or the Four Seasons ' Centre either . |
| 15 | The passenger lift stops outside the north-facing lobby to the Princess Royal 's ( or the eldest daughter 's ) bedroom . |
| 16 | The new realists took an unblinking look at the human effects of welfare economics and the emergent morality of a nation slowly quitting austerity for affluence ; the old romantics looked rather to recover a world of fine fabling like Spenser 's Faerie Queene or the Victorian children 's stories of George MacDonald . |
| 17 | The Gulamalis never received the agreement form , the tenants ' deposit or the first month 's rent . |
| 18 | Your Local Trading Standards department ( see phone book ) or the local Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( see phone book ) |
| 19 | Or the Austere Poetaster 's Ramble , in imitation of John Wilmot , second Earl of Rochester [ q.v. ] , and The True Protestant Account of the Burning of London , as an ‘ antidote ’ to a tract absolving papists from complicity in the great fire of London . |
| 20 | All the girls in the bawdy-house were indolent and frivolous : without a thought in their heads other than the size of a man 's cock or the latest women 's fashions . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the discussions which the Lord Advocate has had with representatives of the German Government and the Bundeskriminalamt about the alleged use by Libyans or the Libyan People 's Bureau of premises in East Berlin in relation to his inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 22 | Not in the plush Cascades or the twee Cotton 's Landing . |
| 23 | Polls have disagreed on whether the Socialists or the conservative People 's Party enjoy more support . |
| 24 | or The French Lieutenant 's Woman , but few are only empty , ludic or disjunct from history . |
| 25 | Dine in the French Restaurant or the informal Jake 's Winer/Diner . |
| 26 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
| 27 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
| 28 | For the self-employed it is either the last 26 weeks or the last year 's set of accounts which are used . |
| 29 | But , I have been a little concerned th th the the term , equal opportunities has n't been mentioned once today , and I would like a reassurance that it 's not because it 's year 's or the last decade 's issue . |
| 30 | Neither does Dunster ( or the Royal Society 's report ) dodge the implications of this tactics . |