Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this remarkable visit , the volcano continued to be active for a week or two , but the explosive activity died down somewhat , and it began to look as though the eruption was going to be just a nine-days ' wonder , and would soon fade away and be forgotten . |
| 2 | WHILE The Stones appealed to the students , and the Beatles to the girls and their mums , The Who were always the lads ' band . |
| 3 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 4 | Fitness is totally the players ' responsibility , not mine . ’ |
| 5 | So far , shorting is still a specialists ' game , but a growing one . |
| 6 | there is still the stars ' brightness |
| 7 | Her Henley card of 72 gross ( handicap 4 ) in 1969 , is still the Ladies ' record 5.3.5.3.4.4.3.5.4. ( 36 ) 4.3.5.3.5.4.3.4.5(36) . |
| 8 | That is still the insects ' solution . |
| 9 | Male sterilization is more normal among middle-class couples ; among working-class couples it is more the wives ' responsibility ( General Household Survey 1984 ) . |
| 10 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 11 | There is also a Girls ' Choir and a Primary Boys ' Choir . |
| 12 | That sewer , with its ‘ phosphorescent scraps of rotten fish … bubbles of poisonous gas , and bloated carcases of dogs , and lumps of offal , floating on the stagnant olive-green hell-broth ’ , is also the occupants ' water-supply . |
| 13 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |
| 14 | ( See the earliest drawing ) , was unsatisfactory , so in September 1908 a trial tee was constructed somewhere near what is now the ladies ' winter tee on the 16th , the 17th green being more or less as we know today , although at this time a twin green with the first . |
| 15 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
| 16 | The residents have their own furniture and are self-sufficient , although there is often a meals ' scheme as well as a communal laundry . |
| 17 | Although the planners , writers , illustrators and publishers of textbooks and children 's books in general have the power to influence attitudes and to develop a sense of equality and respect for all , it is frequently the teachers ' selection of texts on a ‘ gender-aware ’ basis , and with a view to the overall literary diet of pupils , which is a deciding factor . |
| 18 | Conversely , in the case of the metalworking industry in all these five countries the main body is exclusively an employers ' association , since the great diversity and heterogeneous product range of the industry ( basic steel , cars , electrical equipment , etc. ) precluded representation via a single trade association . |
| 19 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 20 | What had been essentially a workers ' party , fifty percent of the membership workers based predominantly in the big cities and towns becomes a party of intellectuals and peasants . |
| 21 | But erm another funny story that er always sticks in my mind is er when we sent memos to the Clerks ' Department and there was only the Clerks ' Department , they were , they were trying to erm improve their public image as |
| 22 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |
| 23 | It was once the Friends ' Meeting House , and a flight of stone steps led to it when I first knew it . |
| 24 | Alida was really the sisters ' friend . |
| 25 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
| 26 | It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort . |