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

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1 It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel .
2 Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension .
3 She looked almost demure , she thought disparagingly , glaring at her reflection as if her dilemma were all the mirror 's fault .
4 I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint .
5 A crude stone hearth , a few sticks of furniture , chests and coffers and a shelf full of kitchen implements were all the friar 's apparent possessions .
6 Is that the telephone 's fault d' ya think or is that fault I mean salesman coming in as well .
7 Is that the Government 's real policy ?
8 Is this the world 's hardest climb ?
9 Is this the teacher 's normal room ?
10 What 's that oh is this the teacher 's ?
11 This bore fruit in 1898 with the publication of Jane 's All the World 's Fighting Ships ( shortened to Jane 's Fighting Ships in 1905 ) , with details of all major surface warships ; this was to be used as a ship recognition and intelligence aid by all sides in many future naval conflicts .
12 In 1909 the first edition was published of Jane 's All the World 's Aircraft .
13 Was that the consultants ' own decision or were they prevented from consulting the NRA by the Cardiff Bay development corporation which originally proposed the Bill in close co-operation with the Welsh Office ?
14 Was this the pilot 's dog ? — it did happen sometimes !
15 But maybe there never was one , and it was all a journalist 's dream .
16 Katie Jane absolved herself of all responsibility for this when she recently claimed in the NME that is was all the onlooker 's problem .
17 It was all the Treasury 's fault .
18 Rank , however , argued with equal conviction that it was all the government 's fault .
19 The Bank seemed to be implying that it was all the auditors ' fault .
20 The auditors seemed to be implying that it was all the Bank 's fault .
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