Example sentences of "'s [noun] [prep] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Dialogue was not published for the benefit of transvestite amateur countertenors : Mopsa 's part in it was aimed at young ladies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And Leonard 's interests in it were moving from the amateur to the professional . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |