Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] 's [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sigeberht the Good , king of the eastern Saxons , over whom Oswiu 's influence had been considerable , was murdered at an unknown date ( but well before 664 for Sigeberht 's successor was dead by 664 ) and replaced by Swithhelm , son of Seaxbald ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) . |
| 2 | One aspect of the integration of information presented in discourse which Thorndyke 's experiment ignores is that the listener or reader may also call on more general knowledge in order to integrate information into an organised whole . |
| 3 | It was an unemotional summary ; Rostov thought that it hid well the bitterness which he felt towards Irina 's kin for their concerted opposition to her marriage , for the years of separation which had been achieved by her father 's influence with the Navy Board and , not least , for the extent to which Alexei 's upbringing had been influenced by the rigid infrastructure of the Court . |
| 4 | The problem was that evolutionary morphology ignored the central insights upon which Darwin 's theory had been based . |
| 5 | The scepticism which Hume 's argument creates is not global , since it concerns only our knowledge of the unobserved . |
| 6 | Among groups who believed the structures and orders of the Church — both Roman and English — had , from antiquity , polluted the immediacy of the ‘ Everlasting Gospel ’ , formal literary language and highly organised stylistic expression were viewed with suspicion , and were frequently seen as one more medium through which God 's truth had been fouled . |
| 7 | Walden talked about the way in which Britain 's role had been artificially inflated by the cold war : ‘ What could be better calculated to raise the national spirits than a government holding the flag high in the face of the evils of communism , the murderous follies of buffoonish Argentinian generals , and the intrigues of the perfidious French ? ’ |
| 8 | It is this sovereign self of Europe which is today being deconstructed , showing the extent to which Europe 's other has been a narcissistic self-image through which it has constituted itself while never allowing it to achieve a perfect fit . |
| 9 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 10 | This was shrewd on George 's part since i meant that Dersingham had done something which George 's father had been wont to do and which , in fact , Dersingham hated having to do for himself . |
| 11 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |
| 12 | She did n't need telling who Dana 's companion had been , or that the menu had been left for her to find . |
| 13 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 14 | What Wagener 's Law suggested was that the expansion of public services reflected the ‘ exigencies of industrialisation ’ — as a nation industrialises it develops needs for collectively provided goods such as roads , sewers transport , and so on . |
| 15 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 16 | So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov 's work has been about . |