Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Therefore , I must say that Wedgwood 's response was like a breath of fresh air . |
| 2 | Noah 's faith was in a God Who makes promises and keeps them . |
| 3 | The dead merchant 's skin was like the cold scales of a fish . |
| 4 | Sunday 's play was of a high standard with two semi finals going to extra time , then penalties . |
| 5 | If Lascubé 's play was against the laws , how about the fact that English no.8 Dean Richards punched a French player in the match against England in the Championship last year ? |
| 6 | There was a band of decisions and you had to say that the parent 's decision was outside the band of reasonableness . |
| 7 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 8 | It appears that access to the flagpole on the bank 's building was via the bedroom of the young couple who rented the flat above . |
| 9 | The play 's story was about the change in men which can break deadlock and bring teamwork . |
| 10 | But Elizabeth 's presence had been chilling ; Mary 's presence was of a different quality . |
| 11 | Children 's shit was of no use to anyone . |
| 12 | Nelson 's experience was of an organisation that had its regular human share of good soldiers , time-servers , wasters , whiners , climbers , saints , piss-heads and heroes ; and when the pressure was on , probably more of the latter than it was fair to expect . |
| 13 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 14 | Signe 's apartment was in a small block built over a row of shops . |
| 15 | Ted 's apartment was in the East Village , an assortment of dank rooms almost devoid of furniture but with a variety of rugs and cushions and mattresses scattered around the floor . |
| 16 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 17 | One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI . |
| 18 | Then Susan 's monster was in the square , towering above Daine 's statue . |
| 19 | The lute 's heyday was during the Renaissance and the last solo music for lute was composed by J S Bach around 1720 . |
| 20 | She knew Ken 's mind was on a new arrangement of ‘ I Do n't Mean Maybe ’ . |
| 21 | A Sechem 's mind was like a sponge , soaking up information until a connection could be made between apparently unrelated areas of scientific fact . |
| 22 | Yanto 's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night . |
| 23 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 24 | Laura 's mind was in a whirl as she gazed at him silently for a moment . |
| 25 | Becker 's photograph was in the German newspapers yesterday , accompanied by lamentations about his physical condition after a knee injury had caused him to abandon the Classic on Thursday . |
| 26 | Jane Leeson went into the photographic studio and told her husband that Lowell 's girlfriend was in the reception area . |
| 27 | From the start , they had worked together like brothers , with respect and affection , and Coleman 's grief was in no way lightened by a suspicion that the killers might have fingered Asmar through him . |
| 28 | Concurrent Computer Corp saw third quarter net profit up 15.2% at $1.0m on sales up 2.2% at $56.1m ; net for the nine months was $2.7m , down from $60.1m , but last year 's figure was after a $61.1m gain on early repayment of debt , on sales off 3.1% at $164.8m . |
| 29 | The meeting at Rutherglen for the choice of commissioner with the authority of the Burgh 's vote was on the evening of 20th May at seven pm and the Dixon agents were so keen to keep their influence to the very end and not let Kirkman Finlay 's agents have an opportunity to exert influence that they were hard pressed to get the Councillors to the meeting at seven pm . |
| 30 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |