Example sentences of "[adj] 's [noun sg] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 22 year old 's body was found at the remote Longslade picnic site near Milton Keynes . |
| 2 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 3 | Sabine 's face was pressed against his chest . |
| 4 | But while there was no direct link between the Victoria Press and the later recruitment of women in Edinburgh , the Scottish capital was the one place in Britain where Emily Faithfull 's experiment was imitated in the 1860s . |
| 5 | In the first phase from 1981 until November 1988 MDC 's remit was confined to regenerating an area with little indigenous population or employment . |
| 6 | Henry II 's inheritance was won by a series of marriages which were politically successful but domestically disastrous . |
| 7 | Alexander II 's nationalism was outweighed by his successor 's fear of revolution . |
| 8 | The first nine years of Childebert II 's reign are dominated by the problems of the young king 's survival , sometimes with the help of Guntram , sometimes with the help of Chilperic , and always with the involvement of his aristocracy . |
| 9 | The oligarchic tendency within the nobility which had shown itself in Edward II 's reign was intensified by the practice of granting new earldoms , and regranting old ones , in tail male . |
| 10 | After the evening when he introduced Atkins , he remained in the background and his place as the latter 's companion was taken by a swarthy newcomer . |
| 11 | The Amir , an absolute monarch , appoints the Cabinet and the 30-member Advisory Council ; the latter 's term was extended for four years in April 1990 . |
| 12 | And a couple of minutes later , after Garry Haylock released Alan Dornan down the right , the latter 's cross was met by Johnston at the near post . |
| 13 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 14 | They may not have been popular , indeed subsequent events suggest that they were not , but they were tolerated , and there is no evidence that Edward IV 's death was followed by an attempt to dislodge them . |
| 15 | They may not have been popular , indeed subsequent events suggest that they were not , but they were tolerated , and there is no evidence that Edward IV 's death was followed by an attempt to dislodge them . |
| 16 | Crucial evidence on Gerard 's conduct after Pippin I 's death is supplied by a letter of Lupus of Ferrières written in July 840 : Gerard , it says , " the former prince and favourite ( princeps et carus ) of Pippin [ I ] " was now one of Charles 's right-hand men in Aquitaine . |
| 17 | It has been said that the Conservative Party 's deliberately tough stand on immigration has removed the raison d'être of the extreme right , even if the former 's stance is based on exclusionism rather than on the expulsionism of the latter . |
| 18 | In the decade 1420–30 , a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's army was composed of Scots who fought at both Cravant and Verneuil , a strong contingent of Genoese also taking part in this second battle against the English . |
| 19 | Charles VII 's rule was legitimised by his coronation . |
| 20 | Historic bells including some dating back to Henry VIII 's reign are to go on show at the Ryedale Folk Museum , Hutton-le-Hole near Kirkbymoorside from tomorrow . |
| 21 | Apparently the profile was taken straight from an old late-'50s Gold Top belonging to Paul Chandler , while the Austin Special 's neck was lifted from a pre-CBS Strat . |
| 22 | The Princess Royal 's bed is known as a St Ursula bed . |