Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] becomes [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Textermination the reader 's mind becomes a veritable anthology of literature which supplants the author 's literary heritage as the source on which the novel draws . |
| 2 | As the years go by , Ursula 's body becomes a bore , and she experiences a fear of ageing : ‘ I shall have to die fairly young , because I wo n't be able to live with the infirmities of old age . ’ |
| 3 | The marriage relationship takes primacy , so that one 's spouse becomes the first source of support for married people . |
| 4 | Firstly , we may be critical of the way the field is set up , so that men and their behaviour are implicitly the norm and women 's behaviour becomes a deviation needing explanation . |
| 5 | For example I shall later consider Bultmann , who has no classical two-nature Christology , but who says of Jesus , as of no other , that this was the man whom God raised from the dead ; so that for him this man 's resurrection becomes the pivot of history . |
| 6 | After 1832 Bald 's career becomes a catalogue of the roads , harbours , river navigations , canals , and railways designed by himself or with his advice . |
| 7 | The market must hope , however , that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City 's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd 's investor becomes no more precarious . |
| 8 | The market must hope , however , that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City 's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd 's investor becomes no more precarious . |
| 9 | Thus in each potency the remedy 's strength becomes a hundred times five hundred , which is one fifty-thousandth of the previous potency : hence the term fifty millesimal potency . |
| 10 | Lecercle of course means death-knell but English has spoken through him , creating a new meaning for the noun that works very well as a metonymy : the bell 's tolling becomes the bell ( it has " sounded " ) much as the water boiling in the kettle has become the kettle as in the expression , " The kettle 's boiling " . |
| 11 | Gradually , however , Paul 's position becomes the only one whereby sense can be made of the situation . |
| 12 | To make such an abstraction is to remove oneself to so rarefied a plane that the object of one 's interrogation becomes an eternal category and is therefore a pointless exercise . |