Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] a [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 2 | With the much larger tablet area a finger 's pressure can be translated into a precise co-ordinate rather than an approximation so electronic finger painting is a real possibility ! |
| 3 | One lady owner a vicar 's wife you know . |
| 4 | Up north they call rugby league a man 's game . |
| 5 | At the speechifying , Darlington Temps boasted that the Highland Laddie had become a temperance hall ; the Royal Oak a bootmaker 's ; the Dun Cow a solicitor 's office and the Talbot a shoe emporium . |
| 6 | Typically , a doctor aIters the state of a patient 's heaIth , the teacher shapes a pupil 's knowledge , and a hairdresser changes the physical appearance of a customer . |
| 7 | Horror ! — the tabloids in action , by S J Taylor ( Bantam Press ) , the author interviews a photographer 's agent , Shelley Lawrence . |
| 8 | Even so , like a dog at the bone , The Times was driven to search out the foreign disposition of the garotters , accusing them of abandoning the traditional civility of the traditional English highway robbery : ‘ Without the old challenge and parley in use among highwaymen , your garotter knocks a man 's head against the kerbstone as the best way of getting at his pocket . ’ |
| 9 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 10 | In the country districts a woman 's life is not easy . |
| 11 | With the offer price necessarily in excess of current market value a member 's best course may be to sell , depending on an estimation of what the company 's future performance under existing management is likely to be and the possibility of a higher offer . |