Example sentences of "[been] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 2 | MARK MELTON has been the Musicians ' Union 's music business adviser since 1987 . |
| 3 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 4 | By combining traditional craftsmanship with state of the art electronics , Yamaha 's APX range of electro-acoustic guitars has long been the professionals ' choice for performing and recording alike . |
| 5 | The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 . |
| 6 | Parents had , inevitably in a Direct Grant school , always been closely involved since they were , numerically , the biggest source of income for new building projects , which could not be financed from fees ; but the only formal organization had been the Ladies ' Committee , in whose capable hands the Autumn Fairs and Scandinavian Evenings had prospered over the years . |
| 7 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 8 | For Mr Pilkington , of Clevegate , Nunthorpe , Middlesbrough , is a crossword fanatic who has twice been The Times ' national champion . |
| 9 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 10 | Son of Gifford Tate , the painter , he had been the Garlands ' doctor since , at his father 's death , he had returned to Falmouth and set up practice in the family house . |
| 11 | It had long been the nuns ' ambition that Eve Malone be thought of as a lady . |
| 12 | The directive was aimed at Sinn Fein and the UDA but it could not have been the legislators ' intention that the broadcasting authority should be impartial between the terrorists and the terrorised . |
| 13 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 14 | French doors led into a room that had once been the guests ' lounge , but was now converted into the dining-room . |
| 15 | The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels ' primary objective since 18 July . |
| 16 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 17 | However , ‘ skilled hands ’ were the operative words , and because most amateurs found secateurs easier to handle and use , whether they were good , clean , bad , or indifferent in the cut , secateurs — often of the most inexpensive and dubious quality — have always been the amateurs ' cutting tool . |
| 18 | They progressed along dark stone corridors , past various pantries and flights of steps , arriving eventually in what later turned out to have been the servants ' hall and was now superficially , and partially , converted for modern living . |
| 19 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |