Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burning eggshells , itching elbows , cutting Christmas cake , hairy caterpillars , ironing shirt hems and having one 's photograph taken are all either good , bad or indifferent . |
| 2 | What the Oxford team 's research suggests is this : |
| 3 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 4 | It really was er of the sort , you know , if Cleopatra 's nose had been half an inch longer , history would have all been different , you know , that , that kind of trivia . |
| 5 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |
| 6 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 7 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 8 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 9 | Paul 's death has been such an appalling shock . |
| 10 | Lord Carrington 's view has been that premature recognition would be a mistake , and Mr. Cyrus Vance — the Secretary-General 's representative — has made the same point . |
| 11 | The Government 's view has been that , if we are to have a system that will work and last in Northern Ireland , it must be a system on which agreement can be obtained around the table , and on which the endorsement and the thumbprints of all involved in constitutional politics in the Province can be secured . |
| 12 | Kitty 's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator , full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings , for scalds and weather and animal magic . |