Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.

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1 It will be the latter 's task to optimize the results of the joint efforts of these people in the presence of personal differences of education , training , temperament and maturity .
2 It may not necessarily be the absolute best plan but it should certainly be the subordinate 's own .
3 ( f ) She proclaimed herself to the staff nurse to be an ex-Jehovah 's Witness and the notes were recorded accordingly .
4 We were a haulier 's .
5 ‘ Multhrop is the Imperial 's owner , Inspector .
6 Clotworthy demonstrates that it is the accused 's belief which counts , not whether the owner really would have consented , had he known of the lack of insurance .
7 The major differences between Kuhn on the one hand and Popper and Lakatos on the other is the former 's emphasis on sociological factors .
8 It is the latter 's contention that Ultimate Concern , the holy or unconditional , expresses itself in a variety of forms : in painting , which may have no religious content in the traditional sense ; in philosophy , when attempts are made to understand the nature of ultimate reality ; in ideologies which might normally be regarded as secular , such as , nationalism , socialism and humanism ; and in traditional religions .
9 By asking : ‘ What is the subordinate 's reward ( or payoff ) for acting that way ? ’ you can begin to pin down some possible factors behind the behaviour .
10 The Jimmy Stewart of American comedy , with his four piece suit and his gentlemanly ways , he 's a 40 's guy in a 90 's world .
11 He has now sold his Duo and drives another unusual kit car , a Vincent Hurricane which is a 60 's style open sports car .
12 But the deciding factor was the latter 's growing fatigue in the final stages .
13 But the deciding factor was the latter 's growing fatigue in the final stages .
14 It was the latter 's first innings of the tour .
15 It was the latter 's religious and political disaffection which took most of the county over to Parliament in the Civil Wars .
16 What sealed the knot between Hunter and Lethieullier was the latter 's curiosity in all things funereal , including embalming , as will be seen later .
17 Then it was the latter 's turn to make a blind swing into a bottomless groove to start the second pitch .
18 It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities .
19 Both men were of obscure origin , but by the late 1420s they entered the service of Sir John Fastolf ; by 1433 Molyneux was the latter 's receiver-general , as well as serving the regent , Bedford .
20 It was the Yugoslav 's fifth successive Grand Slam tournament victory .
21 He guessed , correctly , that this was the Oriental 's intention .
22 If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast .
23 But while ‘ Deliverance ’ was a 70 's nightmare , exposing the soft-underbelly of the male ego and leaving the survivors weeping in their soup , ‘ City Slickers ’ is a product of the new-man 90's , where the soft underbelly is a source of pride .
24 It was a claustrophobic 's nightmare .
25 This was a local 's boat .
26 It was an hour-and-a-half 's drive away .
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