Example sentences of "[noun] 's [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Commission on Justice has recommended changes to include curtailing a defendant 's automatic right to be tried by jury and setting up a new appeals procedure . |
| 2 | It 's a priest 's penitential chain to be worn around the waist against the skin . |
| 3 | Frei , replacing Andrés Zaldívar , became the first party leader in the PDC 's 34-year history to be directly elected to the post in a vote involving all party members . |
| 4 | It is LASMO 's continued objective to be a ‘ good corporate citizen ’ in the many communities around the world in which it operates . |
| 5 | He later realized that , as a child , Michael Ingram had been in The Little Beggars , a radio play that was his and Caryl Brahms 's first script to be performed , starring Alec McCowen , with David Hemmings as the child lead . |
| 6 | One possible temporary solution could be acceptance of a reduction in membership fees for Scotland in contrast to the rest of the United Kingdom , to satisfy demands for Scotland 's distinct nature to be recognised . |
| 7 | But before the collecting boxes are handed round for the benefit of the new but impecunious union , there are some familiar figures , South African and otherwise , from rugby 's political elite to be seen . |
| 8 | Is caring for the child 's personal development to be relegated to overtime ? |
| 9 | Given the Cold War political climate of the time and Sartre 's ideological need to be closely associated with the PCF , it is hardly surprising that the campaign to set the record straight on Nizan was given a low priority . |
| 10 | Although this is certainly borne out by the example of Nizan himself who experienced a degree of mistrust from within the ranks of the PCF as a consequence of his petty bourgeois class origins and schooling , ultimately this is of secondary importance compared to Nizan 's overriding reason for being in the communist party in the first place . |
| 11 | The 790s are one of the best documented decades in Anglo-Saxon history and this enables the years of crisis which followed the establishment of Offa 's dominant position to be comprehended in some detail . |
| 12 | Germany 's peculiar reward for being beaten was an economic miracle financed mainly by American aid and nursed by armies of occupation . |
| 13 | Any gentleman intending to join was required to produce a lock of his own mistress 's pubic hair to be woven in with the original . |
| 14 | Gabriel ignored Lucie 's obvious desire to be left alone , and took down the canvas bag from the nail behind the door . |
| 15 | It was Esquire 's dubious achievement to be born into an economy that has been unkind to all , but one in which the advertising business has been particularly hard-pressed . |
| 16 | Fertility genes enable a plasmid 's genetic information to be transferred from a donor to a recipient strain . |
| 17 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 18 | Andrew Loverage , defending , asked for Dodman 's psychiatric condition to be taken into consideration . |
| 19 | The precise nature and length of the transition period to Europe 's monetary unification have yet to be determined while agreement on the political and economic structures required for the Community 's monetary union to be durable is unlikely to be reached before the mid-1990s . |
| 20 | But over almost 23 years in charge of BMW he has provided strong direction and real leadership — and never lost sight of BMW 's primary reason for being ’ |
| 21 | As Mr Smith travelled to the TUC in Blackpool , a senior union leader — sup-posedly an ally — called for the Labour leader 's anti-devaluation stance to be ditched . |
| 22 | And a matter of days for Fergie and her friend 's secret world to be shattered . |
| 23 | The need for the court 's inherent jurisdiction to be invoked on this basis was evidently established to the satisfaction of Cazalet J. when he gave the local authority leave to apply on 24 January 1992 . |
| 24 | When we come to Waterloo the Great Duke 's extraordinary ability to be exactly where he was needed at the crucial moment is well described , as are his outward calm and inspiring courage . |
| 25 | Then Vincent heard , in this nest of artistic vipers , that Tersteeg was laughing at Vincent 's absurd ambition to be a painter . |
| 26 | In short , the exhibition traces the inevitable tensions between the need for factual accuracy depicting the ruins embedded in a medieval Adriatic sea town , the artistic licence determined by the taste for picturesque views , and the ruthless self-promotion behind Adam 's driving ambition to be a leading innovator . |
| 27 | The final breach grew from Southey 's good fortune in being offered an annuity of £160 during the summer of 1795 . |
| 28 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |
| 29 | It is interesting that it is in the work of a woman , Julian of Norwich , that Mary 's female willingness to be open to receive embodies that attitude which lies at the heart of contemplative experience . |
| 30 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |