Example sentences of "a 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he put both test tubes in b 's territory , b tried to attack a through the glass and a tried to flee ; Tinbergen then moved both test tubes across to a 's territory , and now a tried to attack , and b to flee . |
| 2 | When he put the two tubes in a 's territory ( A ) , a tried to attack and b to flee ; and vice versa . |
| 3 | a 's belief that p is justified . |
| 4 | So he proposes , as a fourth condition for knowledge that p , that the fact that p should cause a 's belief that p . |
| 5 | There are two ways in which it can be a coincidence that a 's belief is true , and both need to be ruled out . |
| 6 | But it includes the causal theory as a special case , since we might think that if the fact that p does cause a 's belief that p , then the two subjunctive conditionals will be true ( but not vice versa ) . |
| 7 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 8 | a 's belief 2 is justified |
| 9 | a 's belief 2 is caused by the fact that p is true |
| 10 | a 's belief 5 is justified , and then presumably |
| 11 | a 's belief 5 is caused by the fact that 5 is true . |
| 12 | a 's belief 4 is justified and then |