Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | West Berlin 's existence was still a thorn in the side of the Soviets , but Khruschev can have had little real hope that the West would abandon it . |
2 | Pete 's cooking was obviously the result of many hours over a hot Trangia . |
3 | Dreadnought 's deck was still a foot or so above the tide . |
4 | The word ‘ changing ’ in the title refers mainly to the electrification of some of these lines , and Vic 's talk was largely a record of these lines as they were , with Deltics , Class 31's , 37 's and 47 's and Sprinters of Class 150 and even 156 , interspersed with slides of the overhead wire installation , and the Class 317 's and 321 's to be seen now . |
5 | This evening 's talk was primarily an account of Mr Mulholland 's recent journeys , lasting over several months , in Brazil where he was working with CAFOD . |
6 | The so-called Executioner 's Axe was really a woodman 's axe on a long handle . |
7 | Ursula 's interruption was almost a scream . |
8 | Julia 's bedroom was now the heart of the house with the family spending every possible moment with her , and although her face was almost fleshless she could always manage a smile to greet them . |
9 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |
10 | The democratic element in the party 's thinking was mainly a conviction that ‘ the people must be right ’ , but popular views were indicated by the act of choosing every four or five years between the two major parties . |
11 | Or perhaps he knew that Warnham and Calcraft in Buckingham 's retinue were really the King 's agents . ’ |
12 | Hilda Eaton 's home was once the snooker room of Vale Royal District Council 's fire station , where her husband Percy used to work . |
13 | St John 's Green was again a Labour against Militant faction-initiated scheme . |
14 | From the tone of these comments it is easy to see that , for Nietzsche , Wagner 's work was still a problem in urgent need of a solution . " |
15 | Carson 's place was only a couple of miles away , in a vastly overpriced and overcrowded strip along less than half a mile of the river east from Kew Bridge . |
16 | But Cahn 's team was certainly no joke and usually gave the visiting tourists a worthwhile and high-scoring game on the pleasant Loughborough Road ground in West Bridgford . |
17 | The ivory damask curtains were drawn and Faye 's body was just a hump in the darkness . |
18 | But Luke 's room was hardly a place to convalesce . |
19 | Leitmotif of this year 's conference was certainly the invocation to provide for American Indian representation in the host country 's cultural life . |
20 | Ooh my dad 's suit was definitely the thing every week . |
21 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
22 | Further , Euric 's court was clearly a place of far-reaching importance . |
23 | Culley 's smile was almost a grimace . |
24 | He works as a journalist ( Naipaul 's father was also a journalist ) and some of the funniest scenes include his imaginative coverage of local news . |
25 | Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile . |
26 | One element in Crosland 's policy was clearly the belief that at least to some extent the future of the vocational or professional ‘ infrastructure ’ lay with a sector with an explicit commitment to promoting it . |
27 | The uncharacteristic fuss and fluster in Ivy 's manner was surely a proof that she knew only too well which letter he was talking about and was in mortal dread of the family finding out . |
28 | Wigan 's victory was also a record defeat for Swinton — beating the 76-3 thrashing by Huddersfield in 1946 . |
29 | Isabel 's voice was scarcely a whisper . |
30 | Ella 's voice was almost a wail . |