Example sentences of "['s] [noun] be [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
| 2 | All I 'm trying to do is to establish where your father 's Datsun was on that night , and then stop wasting your time . ’ |
| 3 | Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 4 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 5 | Swedish international Limpar 's future is in some doubt at Highbury . |
| 6 | The SS Emma Bates 's name was on that torpedo , so he had n't had much of a choice . |
| 7 | We now know what the Labour party 's agenda is on that issue . |
| 8 | In Parliament Gould 's career was of little note until the later years of Anne 's reign when , in 1713 , he spoke three times ( and very effectively ) against the treaty of commerce with France . |
| 9 | As the Secretary of State has said , today 's debate is to some extent a re-run of the debate that took place on 16 April , and we shall be deploying some of the same arguments . |
| 10 | You ask what the Government 's policy is on this matter . |
| 11 | Experience shows the industry 's argument is in any case unfounded . |
| 12 | Or maybe — in a siding only a mile or two from where I lay — a cleaner 's brush was at this moment encountering the bag , wedged back under the seat … |
| 13 | Also , it is necessary to avoid giving the impression that the respondent 's answers are in any way exceptional no matter how hair-raising . |
| 14 | Much that was important in Arlott 's life was in this room , lined with treasured bookcases and priceless first editions . |
| 15 | Golding 's novel is to some degree experimental in style , and when we read it , we sense there is something " odd " about Lok 's language . |
| 16 | and King 's Lynn is close to the wash , King 's Lynn is in this area here . |
| 17 | Just as Wernicke 's aphasia is in some sense the opposite of Broca 's aphasia , so transcortical aphasia is in some sense the opposite of conduction aphasia , because in transcortical aphasia it is repetition which is the best -preserved of the patient 's linguistic abilities , with the patient being extremely poor at understanding speech . |
| 18 | Since , in the case of the parents being separated , young children usually live with their mother in our society , we might infer that the woman 's children are in some form of institutional or educational care . |
| 19 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 20 | Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect . |
| 21 | But few who attended today 's ceremonies were in any doubt they were witnessing the end of an era . |
| 22 | Dic 's family was of that portion . |
| 23 | In tone and content Mr Patten 's speech was of some significance , coming like a breath of damp air into the dry and brittle atmosphere of the Winter Garden . |
| 24 | Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’ |
| 25 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 26 | There is never any one answer to any major problem and Keepin and Kats ' calculations are to that extent a cockshy . |
| 27 | It should be emphasized that the interpretation of users ' actions is to some extent context-driven . |
| 28 | In the event the issue was largely forgotten in the upheaval following the General Strike in 1926 , although the Miners ' Federation was from that time on a strong supporter of a national non-contributory scheme of family allowances . |