Example sentences of "'s [noun] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " . |
| 2 | All three matches attracted large crowds and those at the Queen 's Park Oval were in carnival mood throughout , delighting in the stroke-play of two Trinidadian batsmen , Lara and Simmons , who claimed the Man of the Match award on successive days . |
| 3 | A new beer store , some kitchen improvements a new central heating system and considerable redecorations were completed in 1982 and to cope with the new handicapping scheme along came an Apple computer at a cost of £3,000 ( 1985 ) , its importance being such that the by-laws published in March 1986 included the rule that every male competitor 's computer number was to be written on his card ! |
| 4 | That dog food advertised extensively on TV only slices clean because SAP 's calcium chloride is in the recipe . |
| 5 | The fact that Samia is still there , and that Kenya 's rhino population is at last beginning to increase again , is due in no small part to the dedication and determination of Anna Merz — a true heroine of our times in the front line of conservation . |
| 6 | Adam 's football kit is in the five corners of the house , stiff enough to wash itself . |
| 7 | IBM 's data engine was to be used alongside Tivoli Systems Inc 's Object Management Group-compliant Object Dispatcher technology in the DME server compartment , which maintains objects that contain information about resources on a network as well as routines for managing them . |
| 8 | As a foretaste to things to come , this year 's card design is from the ‘ Diocesan Decade of Evangelisation Group ’ . |
| 9 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 10 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |
| 11 | After ten years in a department working , for example , on housing , the fact that one man 's undergraduate degree was in philosophy and another 's in sociology will make little or no difference ; what will matter is the capacity and experience they have developed at the task . |
| 12 | The main focus of the current phase of the Unit 's research programme is on management behaviour and its impact on industrial relations . |
| 13 | The British Leather Manufacturer 's Research Association is at . |
| 14 | Capital FM 's spring roadshow is to be sponsored by Sega , the European games console manufacturer . |
| 15 | The peak of Kendal 's wool trade was in the 17th and early 18th Centuries and Hawkshead 's prosperity waned with that of Kendal . |
| 16 | As Lloyds Bank 's nostro account is at Bank Z in New York , a transfer from Bank Y to Bank Z takes place . |
| 17 | The smell of Dada 's cut grass was in the air . |
| 18 | THE nation 's ambulance service was in manifest chaos yesterday . |
| 19 | Without quantum theory there would be no genetic engineering , no solid-state computers , no nuclear power stations ( or bombs ) ; even Albert Einstein 's Nobel prize was for his pioneering contributions to quantum theory , not for his ideas on relativity . |
| 20 | A nation 's labour force is by far the most important part of its daily accruing resources , and an inability continued over several years to direct some 10 per cent of it or more to any useful purpose not only involved a disastrous impoverishment of the nation , but is in itself a demonstration that the machinery for directing the available labour into appropriate fields of enterprise has broken down … we put , therefore , in the forefront of our proposals a vigorous policy of national reconstruction embracing within its scope , inter alia , the rehabilitation of agriculture , still the largest of our national industries ; an extensive programme of highway development ; afforestation , reclamation , drainage , electrification , slum clearance and town development , and the development of canals , docks , and harbours . |
| 21 | The conclusion must be drawn that at the end of the period 1978–83 , when America 's peace process was at its height , the dangers for the Middle East , particularly Israel , had increased rather than receded . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're in Daine 's Dream now , but Daine 's Dream country is in my Dream continent , my Dream universe . ’ |
| 23 | Police General Carlos Pulido told Caracol radio that Wednesday 's crash site was in an area so inaccessible that the site may have to be declared a cemetery . |
| 24 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sunconnect division is to roll-out the latest version of SunNet Manager , its network manager software , in an attempt to catch up with Hewlett-Packard Co which has just released OpenView 3.0 . |
| 25 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 26 | Fleischmann 's home base was in England and Harwell were already in action on his behalf . |
| 27 | This information is important if a child 's test score is to be compared with information from the standardisation sample in order to make judgements about relative severity of a linguistic problem or language delay . |
| 28 | The gifted but erratic Glamorgan stroke-maker 's Test future is on the line after he fell for a sucker punch from Hughes . |
| 29 | However , national and international figures are available and they show that a greater proportion of this country 's work force is in work than in any other European Community country except Denmark . |
| 30 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |