Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun sg] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soil Association 's symbol is the consumer 's only guarantee that the food being offered for sale is truly organic and worth the premium that is demanded for foods produced in this way . |
| 2 | What annoys English winemakers is that , for them , the English Vineyards Association 's seal is a guarantee of quality in itself . |
| 3 | The horse 's temperament is the inherited part of its personality . |
| 4 | The wind in the trees and the whistle of his horse 's breath were the only sounds to break the silence of the night . |
| 5 | In other words , your horse 's coat is a reflection more of his health and diet than of the number of hours his owner spends with a body brush . |
| 6 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 7 | Each side will probably already be covered under appropriate employers ' , occupiers ' and public liability policies , and , since the liability to be covered in each side 's case is the same type , the shift from one side to the other will not result in an overall increase of premiums . |
| 8 | The other aspect of the 1991 World Cup that certainly caught the TV watcher 's eye was the inconsistency among the referees . |
| 9 | No one can deny that Hare 's act is a hard one to follow , which is why judgment should perhaps be reserved until the newcomer faces up to some of the winter 's more demanding tasks . |
| 10 | The physicist 's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws . |
| 11 | If a test of causative potency is used then logically every case should end with a 50/50 apportionment , as each of the plaintiff 's and defendant 's conduct is a cause . |
| 12 | If he fails to establish , on the balance of probabilities , that the defendant 's negligence was a material contributory cause of his damage , his action fails . |
| 13 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The defendant 's mother was the subject of interest to the police on this occasion as well . |
| 15 | MK Electric 's Response is a more sophisticated ‘ answer-back ’ system based on the same technology . |
| 16 | It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time . |
| 17 | That may be because people have got so used to killings : after the murder of Lalith Athulathmudali , one of Sri Lanka 's two main opposition leaders , on April 23rd , the assassination of the president who some suspected of involvement in his rival 's killing was no great surprise . |
| 18 | And in all this the enquirer 's subjectivity is an integral element of the enquiry . |
| 19 | One of the keys to the club 's success is the communication between members and the Club management . |
| 20 | In fact at one stage I thought this lack of drama might make poor reading , however , as I progressed I realised that the Club 's story was a neat piece of social-history entwined with personalities and tested by problems . |
| 21 | The club 's pivot was the drama : its master was Leo Lloyd — the second of those men who were to promote the career of so many boys and girls from the Afan valley . |
| 22 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 23 | The neck 's profile is a fairly pronounced V shape , and with a fingerboard radius of 10″ the guitar is very comfortable to play without being too chunky . |
| 24 | The principal objects in the lawyer 's discourse were the jointly-owned house and the possible tenancy-in-common . |
| 25 | Questions of the witness 's identity are an especially strong illustration of the principle . |
| 26 | And the priest 's garb is the disguise that fooled the Germans . |
| 27 | The Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a complex and supremely witty composition that has been described as a microcosm of the Canterbury Tales as a whole ; I shall seek only to illustrate those points of particular relevance to our study of the Shipman 's Tale 's immediate literary context . |
| 28 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 29 | This does not mean , however , that the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is an anti-academic parody . |
| 30 | At the head of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate is the senior chief inspector , with seven chief inspectors under him or her , each of whom is responsible for co-ordinating the work of staff and divisional inspectors in several areas of education ( one chief inspector is responsible for pre-school and primary education , educational disadvantage and multiracial education , for example ; and another for the curriculum 5–16 , local advisory services , LEA inspections and independent schools ) . |