Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a statement tonight , TI says it considers Dowty 's response to it 's offer lacks substance , evades the real issues and is confused . |
| 2 | The last line of the book is the father asking Janet , ‘ What do you think I am ? ’ and Janet 's response to it is written by the reader . |
| 3 | ‘ Mother 's part in it is one thing . |
| 4 | Reviewers who took it all too seriously said Corman 's movie and Nicholson 's part in it was bad film-making , bad acting , bad taste and quite undeserving of consideration . |
| 5 | The Dialogue was not published for the benefit of transvestite amateur countertenors : Mopsa 's part in it was aimed at young ladies . |
| 6 | It is beyond question that by Civizade 's time the learned hierarchy had become greatly elaborated relative to its state in Hocazade 's time , and a scholar 's progress through it is more or less predictable . |
| 7 | It was a tall , square room , facing towards the back of the house and garden , and it was full and overflowing with a profusion of the most diverse and wonderful objects , so full that the room 's function for it was , beneath all , a bedroom — was all but concealed . |
| 8 | Central government 's responsibility for it was not at all clear . |
| 9 | Carrell 's term for it is ‘ formal ’ and she defines it as ‘ background knowledge about the formal , rhetorical , organizational structures of different kinds of texts ’ ( 1983 : 83 — 4 ) . |
| 10 | It happened soon after the start , but the négligée helped , and Dinah 's entry in it was glorious . |
| 11 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 12 | All these explanations were proffered , haphazardly , one on top of the other , and from the excess of explanation Clara concluded that a job in a gallery such as Clelia 's must be something of a sinecure , and that Clelia 's attitude towards it was not wholly happy . |
| 13 | Lucie 's attitude to it was a mixture of contempt and childlike delight . |
| 14 | The circumstantial nature of the account of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's teaching method and Molla Fenari 's place in it is also a point in favour of the Taskopruzade/Mecdi tradition . |
| 15 | Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community . |
| 16 | And none of the Sicilian tyrants before Agathokles ( end of the fourth century ; he was also the first Sicilian to call himself basileus , king ) put his own name on his coinage — contrast the HIΠ-issue of Hippias of Athens ( B. V. Head ( 1911 ) Historia numorum , Oxford , edn 2 , p. 377 ) , admittedly a coinage struck in exile at Sigeion , c.500 BC , but one which shows that the idea of a coin with an individual 's name on it was at least thinkable that early . |
| 17 | It rained on April Fool 's Day like it was intent on making wets of all of us ‘ on the just and unjust alike , ’ observed Derek Foster without ( gentleman that he is ) further categorisation . |
| 18 | Having obtained access to the higher ranks of the bureaucracy , an official 's career within it is helped by links of kinship , friendship and values . |
| 19 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 20 | However , the work which most dramatically highlights the unreliability of the world and of literature 's portrayal of it is perhaps José Donoso 's The Obscene Bird of Night , whose schizophrenic narrator/protagonist experiences modern man 's ontological insecurity as a psychological condition . |
| 21 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 22 | One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 . |
| 23 | Is there any hint that you might be forced to make an inver an inversion o in that sense that er you would be able so that you would have to make statements like that as you 've made you you 've turned them that the employer 's statement on it 's head ? |
| 24 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |
| 25 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 26 | The Restoration witnessed an attempt to return , unconditionally , to the country 's position as it was at the beginning of 1642 . |
| 27 | The program will then calculate Vdb for CorrectNewPos , and discover that the opponent 's evaluation of it is more accurate than its original static value . |
| 28 | Always concerned as a player about fitness , the former Liverpool and Scotland captain 's dedication to it was heightened by his spell with the Italian club , Sampdoria , which he joined in June 1984 . |