Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " 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 | ( f ) She proclaimed herself to the staff nurse to be an ex-Jehovah 's Witness and the notes were recorded accordingly . |
| 3 | ‘ Multhrop is the Imperial 's owner , Inspector . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The major differences between Kuhn on the one hand and Popper and Lakatos on the other is the former 's emphasis on sociological factors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has now sold his Duo and drives another unusual kit car , a Vincent Hurricane which is a 60 's style open sports car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then it was the latter 's turn to make a blind swing into a bottomless groove to start the second pitch . |
| 12 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 13 | What sealed the knot between Hunter and Lethieullier was the latter 's curiosity in all things funereal , including embalming , as will be seen later . |
| 14 | He guessed , correctly , that this was the Oriental 's intention . |
| 15 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a claustrophobic 's nightmare . |
| 18 | This was a local 's boat . |
| 19 | It was an hour-and-a-half 's drive away . |