Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [pron] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are criteria which determine the way in which a man thinks and acts , and in Gandhi 's case they are the religious and ethical ideals of his own form of life . |
| 2 | In Fiona 's case it was the Inverness Nordic Ski Club which put her name forward . |
| 3 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 4 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 5 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 6 | The ‘ Frederic ’ denotes the German infusion in the family — his great-grandfather was German — and on his mother 's side there is the Scottish influence . |
| 7 | Mother 's question Which is the land of milk and honey ? |
| 8 | Mother 's question What is the modern name of the Muscovite Empire ? |
| 9 | Ann 's question What is the sea between Italy and Yugoslavia ? |
| 10 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 11 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |
| 12 | It is the blender 's nose which is the final judge . |
| 13 | In Thomas ' and Potter 's article it was the leaf length , not the plant weight , which was represented by the Richards functions . |
| 14 | From tomorrow 's team he is the only player who has a connection with the county 's almost-defunct mining industry . |
| 15 | As Stamfordham wrote : ‘ We must recognise that Democracy is no longer a meaningless sort of shibboleth ; with the enormous increase of voters by the women 's franchise it is the actual voice , for better or worse , the political voice of the State . ’ |
| 16 | Well on fa front of Gavin 's file there are the words Donna loves Kate . |
| 17 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 18 | For a moment Hotspur almost believed in her extinction , her relegation to the servant 's role which was the lot of daughters in their parents ' households ; and even for a moment it grieved him to believe in it . |
| 19 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 20 | King Alchfrith also built St. Peter 's church which was the first church in Stamford and all Mercia . |
| 21 | ‘ George finished his treatment three months ago and is doing well , ’ said Gary at the launch of his BBC children 's show We Are The Champions . |
| 22 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Watson and Paul Cocker had had the offences hanging over their heads for a long time , adding : ‘ It was Darren Cocker 's godfather who was the tragic victim of crime . ’ |
| 23 | If I can get you to scrawl your signature and today 's date which is the twenty fifth on there . |
| 24 | To Teesdale 's surprise it was the number of the prison . |
| 25 | For supporters of women 's ordination it 's the culmination of years of campaigning . |
| 26 | ‘ At common law one 's duty to one 's neighbour who is the owner … of any goods is to refrain from doing any voluntary act in relation to his goods which is a usurpation of his proprietary or possessory rights in them . |
| 27 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 28 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
| 29 | But the family were also linked tenurially with the house of York , and after William Tyrell 's execution it was the dowager duchess of York who had custody of James and his land , although she granted both to William 's widow and her feoffees . |
| 30 | But the family were also linked tenurially with the house of York , and after William Tyrell 's execution it was the dowager duchess of York who had custody of James and his land , although she granted both to William 's widow and her feoffees . |