Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrust of the Council 's case was higher participation and widened access to higher education . |
| 2 | Noah 's faith was persistent faith . |
| 3 | Noah 's faith was obedient faith . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't hang about long , but I saw enough to convince me that all that rubbish about Melanie 's frigidity was pure invention on your part . ’ |
| 5 | The end of Thérèse 's story was that Antoinette had been found out . |
| 6 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 7 | The Moon 's mass is 0.01230 M E and its mean radius is 1737 km . |
| 8 | Jupiter 's mass is 317.893 M E , which is more than 2½ times the mass of all the other planets put together . |
| 9 | UMNO 's hope is that inexperience will be the chief minister 's downfall . |
| 10 | Mladenov 's resignation and Zhelev 's election were dramatic evidence of how the BSP , in the wake of its June general election victory , had lost the political initiative to the opposition . |
| 11 | The Cardiff coroner 's verdict was accidental death . |
| 12 | Wildavsky ( 1974 p. 13 ) makes the point that ‘ the largest determining factor of the size and content of this year 's budget is last year 's budget ’ . |
| 13 | THE DEATH OF THE MAINFRAME IS GREATLY EXAGGERATED IF WALKER INTERNATIONAL 's EXPERIENCE IS ANY GUIDE |
| 14 | Koch admitted : ‘ I wish I had my dollars and Dennis 's luck , ’ though many believe Conner 's luck is more guile , judgment and experience . |
| 15 | Some packages offer spreadsheet , data base and word processing facilities in a single program ; Lotus 's Symphony and Ashton Tate 's Framework being typical examples . |
| 16 | Lori 's suite was several floors above , but the express lift whisked her upwards , so that in no time at all she was knocking on the door . |
| 17 | Although unquestionably still a successful band , it could be argued that Kiss 's heyday was some time ago . |
| 18 | Churchill 's complement was 137 standing and 109 ad hoc over three and a half years , representing a substantial economy among the GEN groups . |
| 19 | The Assembly 's term is five years . |
| 20 | Biddy 's horse was sixteen hands high and a thoroughbred . |
| 21 | Hundreds of millions of pounds are wasted in car crime each year while Gloucestershire 's force is forty officers short-handed . |
| 22 | ‘ One man 's trash is another man 's treasure , ’ Totter said in a maddeningly calm voice , wandering over to a lower shelf as she did so . |
| 23 | The principle behind Genette 's study is that narrative is a product of the interaction of its different component levels , and that the science of narrative consists in an analysis of the relations between them . |
| 24 | Interestingly , two of the carers in Glendinning 's study were single women who were sharing a household and some of the responsibilities of care-giving with an unmarried brother as well as their elderly parent . |
| 25 | One of the basic assumptions of Rowe and Lambert 's study was that adoption and fostering are not completely separate categories but overlap . |
| 26 | A girl 's wedding is nonessential spending . |
| 27 | Hunt overtook Lauda to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama , the fourth of the championship , but then the season-long wrangling and arguing started when it was ruled that Hunt 's car was 1.8 cm ( 0.7 in ) too wide and he was stripped of his points , Lauda being promoted to first place . |
| 28 | Jay 's car was twenty years old and useless for long journeys . |
| 29 | ‘ People 's perception is that education is cheap if not free , ’ says David Gleave . |
| 30 | Grandson Richard 's reply was another gale . |