Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [be] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Number Ten had captured the tactical unit ; Francis Tite 's genius was to carry off the strategic one . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ As you may guess , his Grace 's business is to do with the fellow who rode in here yesterday morning . |
| 4 | Philby 's job was to liaise with the FBI and CIA on intelligence matters . |
| 5 | Edward 's job was to prepare for the arrival of the family . |
| 6 | The hole became a jointly waged battle and three times Fred Peasley 's ball was to blow off the green . |
| 7 | Smith 's habit was to write in the printing office itself . |
| 8 | The whole tenor of Acton 's approach was to insist on the primacy of medical knowledge — dismissing popular beliefs , especially those put forward by midwives , as dangerous quackery . |
| 9 | A GRIEVING family 's plea to be allowed to have a teddy bear carved on their daughter 's gravestone is to go to the Bishop of Chelmsford . |
| 10 | Murray 's brief was to travel throughout the country and to assess whether it was possible to construct a consensus around Meech Lake which was acceptable to all of the country 's provinces . |
| 11 | In this context , the major challenge for Marxism became how to explain Marxism 's ‘ detour ’ from itself , a question on which Sartre 's project was to founder in the second volume of the Critique of Dialectical Reason . |
| 12 | UNTAC 's idea is to bid for the 100,000 soldiers ' loyalty by paying their wages . |
| 13 | Atlas 's purpose is to sit between the corporate systems and the EDI network , allowing messages to be generated to various standards and in various formats . |
| 14 | Dale 's purpose was to elaborate on the supposedly close friendship between Tschudi and Handel , on which subject he provides some lively anecdotes . |
| 15 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 16 | Boston 's solution is to look to the example of Cuba , where she recently found it ‘ exhilarating to see a third-world nation that is adequately fed and healthy ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Suppose old Hilbert 's face were to appear at the window now , ’ Adam had said as they went up the bask stairs to bed . |
| 18 | The child 's task was to point to the picture which correctly depicted what was described in the sentences . |