Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dead merchant 's skin was like the cold scales of a fish . |
| 2 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 3 | Becker 's photograph was in the German newspapers yesterday , accompanied by lamentations about his physical condition after a knee injury had caused him to abandon the Classic on Thursday . |
| 4 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 5 | Sarah 's bedroom was at the other end of the landing , next to her brother 's . |
| 6 | A further refinement was that the entrance to the town 's harbour was under the furthest-out of the bridges , so that entry and exit thereto could be denied at any time by the castle 's occupants , with a great boom to be lowered . |
| 7 | Singer 's question was about the international system and national units . |
| 8 | Most of Foulston 's work was in the Greek Revival style — which it was his role almost single-handedly to propagate in the area — but his best-known project was the extraordinary group of buildings erected at Ker Street , Devonport , in 1821–4 , an extreme example of the Picturesque stylistic eclecticism of the early nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Most of Herrick 's business was with the Above . |
| 10 | The atmosphere in C was slightly more informal ; this was in large part due to the physical layout of the lecture rooms , which bore a greater resemblance to school classrooms — students sat on chairs at desks and the lecturer 's podium was on the same level as the desks , allowing lecturers to move about the room answering questions . |
| 11 | The man 's body was under the other air shaft . |
| 12 | Labour 's war was against the German nation , not just the Nazis . |
| 13 | And the headmaster 's room was at the very end of that corridor where the fifth class was . |
| 14 | Duncan 's room was on the seventh floor . |
| 15 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 16 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 17 | Dominic and Lee would take the corridor straight ahead ; Meryl 's room was in the parallel east wing corridor , reached via the gallery overlooking the stairwell . |
| 18 | Vial was buried ( at the expense of the College , as a mark of respect ) in the chapel in the Savoy — Vial 's wife was of the Lutheran faith . |
| 19 | Clarissa 's flat was on the eighth floor and its acquisition had been another good thing that summer . |
| 20 | Alison 's flat was on the top floor of a large house , one which , in its own extensive grounds , might have been attractive ; but it was packed into a close row of dwellings , its gardens disfigured into tarmac parking space . |
| 21 | Jacqui 's flat was on the top floor and the bulb in the light on her landing had long since gone and not been replaced . |
| 22 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 23 | But a closer examination has convinced me that , alien though Hugh 's thought was to the main stream of Anselm 's , an influence of some importance can be traced . |
| 24 | The first significant expression of nationalist discontent after Gorbachev 's accession was in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan , following the nomination of an ethnic Russian , Gennadii Kolbin , to replace the Brezhnevite incumbent Dinmukhamed Kunaev as party first secretary . |
| 25 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 26 | Mr. Farr 's garden was on the right hand side at the end of the footpath and must have been almost an acre in extent . |
| 27 | In contrast to his partner 's thud and blunder , Lineker 's finishing was of the highest order . |
| 28 | Consider the two sentences : [ 1 ] John Smith 's birthday was on the twenty-fourth of June . |
| 29 | Also , his youngest daughter 's birthday was on the 8th . |
| 30 | Mordecai 's stall was on the very edge of the bazaar . |