Example sentences of "[noun] 's [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebekah 's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah 's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 2 | The fact of the recent move plus my mind 's having been engaged elsewhere might , I hoped , explain this otherwise crass stupidity . |
| 3 | This is a poor harvest from those weeks or months that the Pounds spent in Sicily ; and indeed it is no harvest at all , since none of these allusions depends in any way on the poet 's having been physically present in the island . |
| 4 | One of the girl 's knocked the handbrake off and the next thing the Hurcombe 's heard was a loud bang . |
| 5 | Children may ‘ decide ’ that the adult past brought , for instance , indicates distant past , while the child 's bringed is retained to indicate more recent past . |
| 6 | If the necessity for the agreement is overlooked then so will be the necessity of the child 's having been trained to react to certain things in a certain way for it to mean anything by ‘ It is red ’ . |
| 7 | Jones ' tally lifted Marchwiel to 143–7 , Nick Brown adding 31 on a day when Mold 's fielding was below par leaving them with 11 points to Marchwiel 's 30 . |
| 8 | The distinction between felonies and misdemeanours no longer exists but there seems no reason why the rule , if it is a rule at all , should not apply wherever B 's taking is criminal . |
| 9 | Well it 's the plaintiff 's saying is you had one and and you handcuffed him , nevertheless , notwithstanding the fact that you had a long barrelled weapon . |
| 10 | ONE OF the world 's major orchid shows is to open in Glasgow in May , in spite of the event 's having been dubbed a fiasco less than a month ago . |
| 11 | Needless to say , there are a few surprises in these performances : the Academy 's playing is a polished as ever , Marriner 's conducting urbane and refined . |
| 12 | So far as artlessness and simplicity is concerned , Livia Rev 's recording is very special , while Barenboim scores by bringing lightness and freshness to the music which is often quite bracing . |
| 13 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 14 | The VPO 's playing is one of the set 's main pleasures , but it has to be said it sounds much more prominent than would ever be the case in the opera house . |
| 15 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 16 | Bowie is a close enough friend of Scorsese 's to have been given a storyboard of a fight scene in the director 's Raging Bull ( Bowie loves boxing ) although he intensely disliked Marty 's latest film , the box-office smash Cape Fear . |
| 17 | The young man 's betrothed is related to him but only in the seventh degree . ’ |
| 18 | So they 're going to be the conscience and the parenting for that year group and I also suggested that at that time , I think what Rob 's doing is getting the children to look at themselves er , as regards what their strengths and weaknesses are and the P S D have got to clarify that . |
| 19 | So I my opinion , what this government 's doing is stopping stopping the lower class , well I say lower classes , the lo the the |
| 20 | And they see the purpose for what Maria and Peter 's doing are n't they and they 're |
| 21 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
| 22 | That 's what Amy 's doing is n't it ? |
| 23 | Another subtle form of criticism occurs when someone else is lavishly praised and you 're left to make a comparison : ‘ That report Angela 's done is truly excellent ’ ( sub-text : ‘ It 's a shame yours was n't ’ ) . |
| 24 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 25 | It ranges from the Dean 's having been arrested for murdering Paul Gray to the Bishop 's having hired Lord Cumbermound 's beagles to track down the corpse . ’ |
| 26 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 27 | They write , ‘ Deliberately prolonging a patient 's dying is unacceptable for any reason . ’ |
| 28 | Scaevola is less than enthusiastic , but he does state that a case can be made for a trust 's having been established . |
| 29 | London 's Burning 's on , I like that |
| 30 | While the men 's event appears wide open , the women 's raced is centred around last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , from Portugal . |