Example sentences of "[be] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short circuit racing has always been McWilliams ' scene . |
| 2 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 3 | It had been Amos ' son , Robert , who had designed City Earth . |
| 4 | Librarians need to know how comprehensive are suppliers ' approval collections , databases and listings , and to evaluate how far suppliers ' showroom stocks — and stock revision lists reflect ‘ the best ’ of what is available in print ( rather than collections of publishers ' cast-offs ) . |
| 5 | This had been Jesus ' gospel ; it concerned the Father only , not the Son — for Jesus had not proclaimed himself . |
| 6 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the domestic market continues to be Lloyds ' Achilles heel , with profits of £11 million in the first half becoming a loss in the second , slashing overall profits from £105 million in 1991 to only £5 million . |
| 8 | At first sight , the most time-consuming area seems to be directors ' remuneration details . |
| 9 | In evaluating its credentials our prime example will again be Rawls ' theory . |
| 10 | I do n't think you will be surprised to learn that that in fact shows a very clear divergence between what was considered to be girls ' training and boys ' training and the most stark statistic was in relation to who was going into government training centres . |
| 11 | He does say that he will be Octavius ' tent , and shall be waiting to hear how everything has turned out . |
| 12 | Amongst the performance criteria to be taken into account when deciding allocations will be councils ' willingness to involve the private sector in the management and maintenance of its housing stock , and the extent of tenant participation in the management of estates . |
| 13 | It seems to have been Charles ' policy to broaden the education and leadership of his sons , and at the same time not to allow them to become too entrenched in their own subkingdoms . |
| 14 | Were Watkins ' mark points , the mounds , ‘ hill forts ’ , moats and tree clumps , also the manifestation of some consciousness of the principles underlying the practice of feng shui ? |
| 15 | On the opposite corner of Brown Street were Soffes ' Tea Rooms , next came Chaplin 's offices . |
| 16 | Most astronauts , for example , object to being scientists ' guinea pigs . |
| 17 | The ERA quality — ‘ quality ’ being brewers ' jargon for a beer type — is what I might term dark heavy . |
| 18 | Is it possible then that perhaps there were boys ' ploughing matches on all the other islands as well , and the tradition has only survived in South Ronaldsay ? |
| 19 | In terms of the stage of the disease , the majority were Dukes ' stage B ( 35% ) or C ( 33% ) , with only a few in Dukes ' stage A ( 12% ) . |
| 20 | F-Plan dieters know that high-fibre carbohydrate foods are dieters ' friend number one they are the pioneers of a completely new and more effective attitude to food and weight control . |
| 21 | Now , thanks to the publicity of the past year or two , people are beginning to realize that fats are dieters ' enemy number one . |
| 22 | An alternative indicator of demand for labour is employers ' notification of vacancies . |
| 23 | Look there 's Kids ' County Elizabeth where are we after ? |
| 24 | Anyway look there 's Kids ' County er Dorothy who do we need ? |
| 25 | On the way to Upper Halling we find that the names have come down to us unaltered , to our right we have Yew Tree Kill , which has disappeared into the chalk quarry , also the Vicarage Close , further on and still on our right is Foxes ' Hole , a name that has continued down to this day . |
| 26 | Dominating the room — and presenting the adventurers with an implacable and unexpected enemy — is Drachenfels ' bed . |
| 27 | LAMBS ' LIVER , BACON AND ONIONS Not only is lambs ' liver high in iron and a general nutrition booster , but it tastes superb when thinly cut and cooked briefly so it is brown outside and pink inside . |
| 28 | The special factor is Socrates ' daimonion . |
| 29 | Third , and most important , is Rawls ' blindness to the possibility that the social role of a doctrine of justice may be met by consensus concerning the second best , given that an ideal constitution is not feasible . |
| 30 | Another great aspect of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is Dickens ' characterisation . |