Example sentences of "'s [noun] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trudie 's award was presented by popstar Cliff Richard who thinks her efforts are an example to everyone … |
| 2 | Until after the 1939–45 war , nearly all the country 's milk was transported by rail . |
| 3 | On 21 August 1881 Smith 's yacht was nipped between pack ice and land floe off Cape Flora , sinking in two hours . |
| 4 | Stalin 's humility was put on record in the official history of the Soviet Communist Party — at his own suggestion . |
| 5 | The ship 's course was altered to north-northeast to enable HMS Impregnable to clear the notorious Bembridge ledges . |
| 6 | The Leviathan 's skin was made of chain-mail and repelled any arrows or spears . |
| 7 | He completed a circular slash as he descended and Alexei 's shield was bathed in yellow below the waist . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , Dr Mumby 's sentence was greeted with exasperation by the quality press , particularly in the areas where Dr Mumby practises . |
| 9 | When Brihtric 's daughter was wooed by Godwin the agreement made at Kingston in Cnut 's presence was recorded in triplicate : one copy was deposited at Christ Church Canterbury , and the second at St Augustine 's , but Brihtric himself kept the third . |
| 10 | The back of Tutankhamun 's throne was covered in sheet gold , and according to the Bible King Solomon 's ( 970–933 B.C. ) , mounted on a dais with six steps , was sheathed in ivory overlaid by gold . |
| 11 | Schmidt 's chest was crowning with effort , like an asthmatic in a sawmill . |
| 12 | As Percivall noted in 1843 ‘ One of the Professor 's projects was crowned with signal success ; and for this his name must be handed to posterity with no ordinary eclat — I mean his introduction of Ventilation into stables and other places used as the habitations of horses and cattle . |
| 13 | The boy 's hair was plastered with ghee , or clarified butter , as evidence of his achievement . |
| 14 | Expertly held , the monkey began whimpering again , his sad eyes looking at them imploringly , and Sophie 's heart was wrung with pity . |
| 15 | The patient 's heart was removed for transplantation , and the recipient is making excellent progress . |
| 16 | A turbulent third day 's debate at the Congress of People 's Deputies was marked by emotion and alarms over a report — later discounted — that troops were approaching the Kremlin . |
| 17 | Delight over Iraq 's defeat was tempered by anxiety that President Saddam Hussein had survived the war , and that a refocusing of international attention on a new post-war Middle East " order " would inevitably involve attempts to settle the Palestinian issue . |
| 18 | The Committee was equivocal on this , but recommended a formulation which would be broad enough to encompass these wider factors — ‘ the balance of the woman 's mind was disturbed by reason of the effect of giving birth or circumstances consequent upon that birth ’ . |
| 19 | Evidence that Perot 's candidacy was growing in popularity in late October led to hints by both the Bush and Clinton camps that Perot could be included in a future Cabinet . |
| 20 | Faced with a deficit of $3,500 million for the 1991/92 fiscal year , the city 's administration was obliged by law to agree upon a balanced budget or face the prospect of being forced to allow the Finance Control Board ( a state watchdog ) to take over its finances . |
| 21 | When forced to do so , the president 's action was greeted by applause : the fact that the president was Alfrink of Utrecht added piquancy to the event . |
| 22 | Jesty 's experiment was met by hostility in the neighbourhood and , labelled inhuman , he was ‘ hooted at , reviled and pelted whenever he attended markets in the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 23 | Gradually the Friar 's self-reproach was overcome by anger directed at those who had caused it . |
| 24 | The whole tangled web of each other 's relationships was getting to breaking-point . |
| 25 | In Jammu and Kashmir president 's rule was extended with effect from March 3 . |
| 26 | It gave no details of his medical condition but an ANC spokesman said the movement 's president was suffering from exhaustion . |
| 27 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 28 | The Court 's reasoning was based on personality , capacity , and functionalism , not the treaty law principle of res inter alios acta . |
| 29 | East Berlin 's industry was plunged into crisis by the overnight arrival of the deutschmark a year ago . |
| 30 | The SDA 's investment was made in accordance with our normal commercial criteria to help to strengthen the financial and business position of an expanding company , headquartered in Scotland , which is prepared to provide the prospect of continued growth . |