Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Labour leader knows and the rest of the party knows that there could be an election next year , in which case when Labour meets for it 's conference in autumn ninety-one , Mr Kinnock could be addressing them , not as leader of the opposition , but as Prime Minister .
2 The network of friends people built up when married often depends on their being part of a couple .
3 The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action .
4 Classification , he shows , involves selection and isolation of elements whose meaning derives from their being part of a system rather than from any intrinsic significance .
5 Erm I think it 's really very sad that i it 's just the society we live in has put these kind of pressures on marriages and you know we 're all human and we can all be tempted to look at other people and be unfaithful but in those times of er you know temptation you just I well I I 've found that that 's where my faith comes in you 're sort of helped through those times .
6 The failure of Government to give a real to training arises from it 's obsession with market forces and passion for privatisation .
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