Example sentences of "[indef pn] 's [noun sg] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Coming into someone 's life is a bit like taking over their house , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 2 | Whether you 're plugging a designer label or political ideology , emblazoning your message across someone 's chest is a great way of getting it seen . |
| 3 | I think from what everyone 's saying being a woman in Scotland today is that in itself er , a cause for depression . |
| 4 | But at the back of everyone 's mind is the coming battle for the site of the biggest project on the horizon , NET . |
| 5 | Obtaining a place at a university for one 's daughter is a service and is so despite the accused herself not obtaining the service for herself . |
| 6 | Incredulity in one 's listener is a great silencer , particularly when it verges on ridicule , and Bob was likely to prove a milder critic than I had been . |
| 7 | One 's wife is the super ‘ Thou ’ . |
| 8 | The rest of one 's life is a process of dropping the claims , one by one . |
| 9 | As Gabriel Josipovici has said , ‘ To imagine , like the traditional novelist , that one 's work is an image of the real world , to imagine that one can communicate directly to the reader what it is that one uniquely feels , that is to fall into the real solipsism , which is , to paraphrase Kierkegaard on despair , not to know that one is in a state of solipsism ’ ( The World and the Book ) . |
| 10 | On balance , it is probably safer to use AJR procedure if there is doubt about whether one 's case is a public law case or not . |
| 11 | Depending on favours for a substantial part of one 's livelihood was the vulnerability which Mary Leapor was reluctant to assume . |
| 12 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 13 | A sententious , self-righteous approach as the artist-legislator spoke a mixture of scorn and complacency that most politicians know how to avoid , suggested that keeping Mr Kureishi off one 's bandwagon was the beginning of wisdom . |
| 14 | The issue of access to the marital home at the end of a marriage is a very important one , since to lose one 's home is a serious disincentive for a woman to leave an unhappy marriage . |
| 15 | However , I 'm sure you 'll agree that a bit of feathering one 's nest is a long way away from murder . |
| 16 | Tip O'Neill is instructive on the differences between the two administrations in these matters : Being ‘ helped out ’ in one 's district was a matter of the greatest importance to members of the House of Representatives , the forum where Reagan 's legislative strategists would face their severest test . |
| 17 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 18 | Pictures of one 's family are a treasured item in any home , and this is an idea for turning a small but favourite picture into a more decorative item . |
| 19 | If one 's priority is an account of fiction as a cultural rather than as a logical phenomenon , the problem of how readers deal with Babar 's behaviour is worth considering , whereas the problem of the library resources available to Red Riding Hood is not . |
| 20 | Now , the first twelve months of anybody 's service is a period of probation . |
| 21 | IWM 's Bevis Griffiths supervised the conservation work on the Firefly , and had this to say of the professional/volunteer team used to restore Z2033 : ‘ The Museum require volunteers for this sort of work because we have some seventy aircraft here at Duxford and six [ full-time ] technicians to look after them , which in anybody 's book is a huge workload , so we work alongside the volunteers . |
| 22 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |