Example sentences of "[indef pn] 's [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider someone 's total state of consciousness at a particular moment , comprising various perceptual experiences , thoughts , imaginings , feelings and so forth . |
| 2 | Similarly , if I treat someone 's urgent need of money solely as an opportunity to buy cheap from him , you may well doubt whether I am aware of more than the fact that he is in trouble , and try to rouse me from my callousness : ‘ How would you feel if I did that to you ? ’ |
| 3 | But there was all the experience and help of Ann Scott Jones who somehow managed to make the lonely job of the Usherette/Narrator come to life , and the magic of Hildegarde Bechtler , the designer , turning the Tron into a real ‘ Forties cinema with help from the hardpressed stage manager , Gibby , and somebody 's wonderful collection of cinema architecture bric-a-brac and memorabilia . |
| 4 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |
| 5 | HITCHED FOR LIFE : Hitch-hiking is not everyone 's favourite mode of transport — feigning angelic smiles at indifferent drivers from the cold , wet , hard shoulder of Leicester Forest East service station . |
| 6 | Even casual acquaintance is better than total ignorance , and ‘ it 's acceptable to take one 's entire knowledge of Romeo and Juliet from Cliff Notes . |
| 7 | Turbine engines had not been introduced into regular airline use when I joined the Branch ; also one 's practical application of aerodynamics had to be radically modified to cope with the characteristics of high speed flight with swept wings and all the associated developments that went with this revolution in flying . |
| 8 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 9 | The English education system is a narrowing down , rather than a broadening out : disciplines outside one 's own are not looked upon as worthwhile or potentially interesting , but as completely outside one 's own sphere of practice ; subject specialization reveals ‘ difference from ’ rather than ‘ communality with ’ . |
| 10 | Sadism suspends awareness that death comes to all of us , by exploiting the death of another to intensify one 's own consciousness of life and power . |
| 11 | One 's whole style of life is intended to make claims about oneself — to announce one 's group-loyalties and relationship with the world . |
| 12 | ‘ One 's whole life is just a perpetual traffic between the grimness of reality and one 's fleeting dream of happiness , ’ Tchaikovsky had said , who had perished by being shopped by a forgotten grey jurist , who considered him a disgrace to the Legal Profession ( because he was gay ) , Tchaikovsky having made a false start in law . |
| 13 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 14 | I have already identified more than one type of contradiction ; those that can exist between one 's fantasies and what one would actually do or enjoy in real life , and those that can exist between one 's understanding of the oppressive nature of some discourse or practice and one 's continuing investment of desire and finding of pleasure in it . |
| 15 | One 's natural sense of inadequacy could be kept at bay only by pious acts of repeated successfulness . |
| 16 | Devotees of this label can rest assured that it retains more than anyone 's fair share of glitzkrieg . |