Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders why Lacan 's narrative of the genesis of the subject has to pass ‘ through ’ this flaw in the female anatomy — a flaw in the ‘ proper ’ functioning of the female body . |
| 2 | But in the discreet , epicene efficiency with which he clears away Casio 's bowl of vomit or dusts down Othello after his fit , he is the finicky gentleman 's gentleman , his body language strongly reminiscent of Dirk Bogarde in The Servant . |
| 3 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 4 | Eliot sets aside Arnold 's notion of culture , stating that his own main interest is ‘ with the culture that a whole society may develop and transmit ’ . |
| 5 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 6 | A late amphora by the Kleophrades Painter carries further Euthymides 's integration of ‘ picture ’ and ‘ pot-decoration ’ : the frame dissolved into a strip of pattern under the two big figures on each side . |