Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point about the above argument is that alienistic attitudes can become the prevalent force at every stage of a deaf person 's education . |
| 2 | leave out sections of the message in order to be able to catch up , or guess at sections of a deaf signer 's message |
| 3 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 4 | There are trees here , inviting a picnic , and a pleasant anglers ' path may be followed up-river to bring Ben Stack , the most shapely of the mountains hereabouts , into close view . |
| 5 | Hopes were high for a pleasant summer 's day fishing , but unfortunately this was not to be : heavy wind and rain — and a stomach-churning eight foot swell — resulted in a lot of green faces and a fewer that expected number of fish being caught . |
| 6 | She thought of the days when art was a rich man 's pastime and voluptuous whores took the back stairs to Burne-Jones ' studio to be recreated in the image of Cleopatra for tuppence ha'penny an hour . |
| 7 | But she was a rich man 's daughter . |
| 8 | Twenty years ago a poor vicar fell in love with a rich man 's daughter . |
| 9 | His father , annoyed that he had n't followed family tradition and become a solicitor , had made the hoary old joke about marrying a rich man 's daughter . |
| 10 | The vast rooms were crammed with a rich man 's equivalent of Stanley 's jumble-filled stables . |
| 11 | But in Europe as a whole the car was still a rich man 's toy . |
| 12 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 13 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 14 | It is not the poor man 's shelter it pretends to be , but a rich man 's plaything , related to that larger Dairy House which Richardson 's heroine , Clarissa , inherits half a century earlier from her grandfather . |
| 15 | Their style of life was not much different from the ordinary Zuwaya : they had perhaps recently acquired better housing , but the new villas were not segregated ; food was no more generous , nor more delicate in a rich man 's house ; schooling and medical treatment were uniform . |
| 16 | Will it remain a rich man 's club , keeping Eastern Europe on the outer perimeter , linked by mere trade agreements , or , one step up , association agreements . |
| 17 | Europe has repeatedly been accused of cultural imperialism , of being a trade fortress and a rich man 's club . |
| 18 | Does the Secretary of State agree that until now , there has been little to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to change their minds about the EC being a rich man 's club ? |
| 19 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 20 | If I had a little money in a rich man 's world . |
| 21 | To Las Vegas or Monaco da da da money money money funny in a rich man 's world . |
| 22 | I lick your boom boom now Money , money , money , money , money , it 's a rich man 's world ooh , ooh , ooh , ooh . |
| 23 | Whereas a progressive tax takes proportionately more of a rich person 's income , a regressive tax takes proportionately more of a poor person 's income . |
| 24 | He spent three years in New York State as resident secretary of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club , a rich men 's recreation park on the Hudson River , whence he could keep an eye on wealthy Irish-Americans . |
| 25 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 26 | There was a stand of bronze inlaid with silver , looted perhaps from a rich merchant 's house , and a cut of marble propped on an empty brazier and supporting the physician 's jars and boxes and bottles . |
| 27 | Even in Germany , the social disqualification of middle-class origins might still have to be purged by a reserve officer 's commission — hence , in part , the wide acceptance of the military tone of German society . |
| 28 | The claim was made in an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6 , which suggested that Clinton had received a four-year deferment from the draft by promising to join a reserve officers ' training programme ( ROTP ) at the University of Arkansas . |
| 29 | As a student social worker , I recall accepting a depressed client 's statement that ‘ if I did n't drink , I would go mad ’ as a rationale for his continued drinking . |
| 30 | If you are arranging a cheeseboard , place some Farmhouse Lancashire alongside a traditional Stilton , a ripe Brie , a tangy goat 's cheese and a low fat cheese to a well-balanced selection to please most tastes . |