Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elicitation procedure is designed to provide a child with the opportunity to respond to a specific set of stimuli ; the relationship between a stimulus and the child 's response is then taken as an indication of the child 's mastery of a particular aspect of language . |
| 2 | a wife 's income is not included in her husband 's return . |
| 3 | He waited until we were browsing through the chilled fish before raising the issue : ‘ Do you really think that Old Mother Walsh 's snake is actually going to wriggle down Wimbledon High Street when the time comes ? ’ |
| 4 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 5 | The salient differences between these two applications are that in the second case the consultant , though independent of the course team , is known to be supportive and familiar with the background and context of the course under examination ; the quality of the consultant 's judgement is also known to most of the course team . |
| 6 | Skimmed cow 's milk is sometimes found in commercial prepared foods for babies under six months . |
| 7 | Because cow 's milk is specially formulated for baby cows . |
| 8 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 9 | Branches report from all over the UK on the interest and help provided by the management and staff of Cannon Cinemas , and the company 's support is gratefully acknowledged by Central Council . |
| 10 | However what I want to emphasize is that Residents ' Association 's case is not does not rely on an inner northern route acting as a an alternative to a western rel route . |
| 11 | In any case Payne 's case is not dealing with the Secretary of State 's decision on tariff . |
| 12 | Man 's part is simply to prepare his heart continually by ridding his will of foreign attachments , his reason of anxieties , and his memory of idle or absorbing business — even though that business appear to be so very necessary . |
| 13 | It may be so , but convincing evidence for any such policy on Henry 's part is unfortunately lacking . |
| 14 | Belief in God , as I have tried to outline it , is a venture , a practical commitment , undergone in acceptance of the fact that the evidence for God 's existence is never going to produce certainty . |
| 15 | Robert Pinget 's fiction is frequently inhabited by authorial personae . |
| 16 | The appeal committee 's decision is not binding on the LEA , but there is a further right of appeal to the Secretary of State who can confirm , amend or revoke the statement . |
| 17 | As a result there is no remedy available to an aggrieved party if a tribunal 's decision is not complied with — unless the statute should expressly create such a remedy . |
| 18 | The arbitrator 's decision is also meant to replace the reasons on which it depends . |
| 19 | The third is that a president 's decision is widely publicized . |
| 20 | It 's he who from time to time begins talks with the observation that a referee 's parentage is often questioned . |
| 21 | He will if Sharpe 's crossing is up to scratch . |
| 22 | Four independent photon-correlation experiments carried out in the 1970s showed that Bell 's inequality is indeed violated , and that the results agree with quantum mechanics . |
| 23 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 24 | Abraham 's story is widely used to justify the irrationality of faith . |
| 25 | A judge 's sentence is normally limited by the nature of the offence , but a doctor can detain until he decides a patient is cured . |
| 26 | The middle-class children 's toy is never intended for mere amusement or pleasure ; its prime interest is its educational value , the child must absorb the toy as a challenge , something from which it will learn in order to improve itself . |
| 27 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 28 | God 's glory is not confined to heaven and the future life with Christ which Christians look forward to with confidence . |
| 29 | Women and children 's freedom is already limited on the streets . |
| 30 | The public sector manager 's budget is politically determined : " marketing " the service to generate increased demand leads only to increased costs and not ( normally ) to increased revenue . |