Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aga-sagas are really everyman 's alternative to Jane Austen . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm now Kent 's King of the Mountains ’ , he said . |
| 3 | The one to watch would be tomorrow morning 's debate on the Government 's immigration policy . |
| 4 | I phone Yvonne and William 's house but there 's only William 's voice on the answer-machine . |
| 5 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 6 | That is exactly Tolkien 's view of evil . |
| 7 | As a welcome twist , Warwara Zelenskaja gave the Soviet Union is best-ever women 's result with third place at Morzine behind Kronberger and Bournissen . |
| 8 | Th the er the anointing of the Holy Spirit , they 're the , th every single thing , every area , our growth , our maturity , whilst we might have input into it , it is still God 's gift to us . |
| 9 | The match with Malta at Tannadice , Andy Roxburgh said yesterday , is also Ferguson 's chance to ‘ show up well and get his career moving again ’ after lengthy negative publicity surrounding transfers , fines and a TV appearance by the player 's agent to complain about the size of the bed in the forward 's digs . |
| 10 | In a neat piece of role-reversal , Lewis , who went on to become the Wales Under-21 coach , is now Jenkins 's assistant at Stradey . |
| 11 | The main bone of contention is undoubtedly Klemperer 's predilection for extremely slow tempi throughout the work , stretching the Symphony 's duration to well over a hundred minutes ! |
| 12 | Antoine Bloye is ultimately Nizan 's testimony to his father . |
| 13 | Depending on who you talk to , she 's either Hollywood 's answer to Joan of Arc or a direct descendant of Lucretia Borgia . |
| 14 | But Mother Kirk — a sort of Anglican version of Langland 's Mother Church — is certainly John 's guide in the final stages of his journey . |
| 15 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 16 | It was just Beethoven 's sense of what was going on outside triumphing over our own . |
| 17 | The abbey was plundered and pillaged , its treasures looted , its roofs pulled off , and what was once man 's homage to God became a nesting place for foxes , ravens and kites . |
| 18 | The Ironbridge Gorge Museum is an extensive open-air museum embracing the buildings and industrial remains of the former cradle of the Industrial Revolution , centred on Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) , now part of the new town named after the great civil engineer Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) who was once Shropshire 's Surveyor of Public Works . |
| 19 | This was probably West 's advice after returning from Furness . |
| 20 | It was probably Charlotte 's frown of puzzlement that prompted her to add : ‘ Emerson 's wife . ’ |
| 21 | But , more than anybody , Powell recognised that whatever the business opportunities Event presented , it was also Branson 's way of exorcising the journalistic instincts — the excitement of chasing stories and airing issues — which had been thwarted by the failure of Student . |
| 22 | Ronnie was also Palace 's captain for that promotion season . |
| 23 | It was partly Szarkowski 's influence in the early 60s , which broadened collectors ' minds to the idea of buying photographs which were other than self-consciously fine art . |
| 24 | But it was really Ben 's story from beginning to end . |
| 25 | Part of its inspiration was indeed Haynes 's outlet in Edinburgh , and Miles was the man left minding the store . |
| 26 | It was then Chamberlain 's turn to be aghast . |
| 27 | Former Panamanian diplomat Ricardo Bilonick , a crucial witness who was allegedly Noriega 's go-between with Colombia 's Medellín drugs cartel , and who was arrested only two weeks before the trial began , pleaded guilty to a relatively minor racketeering charge on Aug. 29 without having to face more serious drug-trafficking charges . |
| 28 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 29 | It was definitely Tim 's voice on the yacht that night . ’ |