Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They know I 'm a players ' manager and will look after them . |
| 2 | Aye well you see there was a a local departmental committee , of which I was the employees ' employees ' side , of which I was secretary . |
| 3 | Specifically , The Mary Whitehouse Experience is an experience in wankers and turds , which are the boys ' two favourite words . |
| 4 | It is interesting to discover which are the ants ' favourite foods . |
| 5 | As I say , I 'd al been in things at chapel , Silas Marner and things , but er this was another thing , and of course , that 's where I met my wife , at er Row , which is the boys ' clu was the boys ' club 's Headquarters . |
| 6 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 7 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 8 | The new youth movement found its most dramatic expression in the religious brigades , the first of which was the Boys ' Brigade ( BB ) , founded by William Smith in Glasgow in 1883 , followed by the Church Lads ' Brigade ( CLB ) in 1891 , and the Boys ' Life Brigade ( BLB ) in 1899 . |
| 9 | There follows a white villa which was the Jesuits ' summer house . |
| 10 | She is the fairies ' midwife , and she comes |
| 11 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 12 | So , just who is the hairdressers ' choice ? |
| 13 | Henley took quite an interest in her and she was the Ladies ' President from 1920–1925 . |
| 14 | ‘ She was the kids ' cat . |
| 15 | The officials included Squadron Leader Ian Sweet , who was the Championships ' Secretary and the race commentator ; Major Martin Leach , the technical delegate Mr Richard Berry , and PR consultants Colonel Geoffrey Godbold , and Major Hutch Hutchinson . |
| 16 | ‘ Above all , we 're a punters ' band — we want people to come and enjoy themselves — it 's all about having fun , ’ said Slim . |
| 17 | One is a plumbers ' merchant which specialises in plumbing goods . |
| 18 | The elections were held in accordance with a law passed on Feb. 20 [ ibid. ] , and voters had one vote for one of the listed parties ( there being no candidates ' names on the voting form ) . |
| 19 | For this reason there were no candidates ' addresses , no attempts to persuade the voters that one candidate 's policies were better than another 's . |
| 20 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 21 | Top of the range is the Eiger , quite a substantial jacket , and there 's a ladies ' model as well , the Electra . |
| 22 | There 's the Magistrates ' Court and then above it there 's the Crown Court . |
| 23 | Now there 's the Artists ' Rights Bill . |
| 24 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 25 | Here there is a visitors ' centre from which there are guided walks in the summer and plenty of books on sale to help identify species . |
| 26 | The Royal Oak pub is popular for families as there is a childrens ' room and large gardens outside , with tables and chairs in summer . |
| 27 | In addition many local Law Societies have technology committees and there is a lawyers ' PCW Club for Amstrad PCW users . |
| 28 | In each of the three houses of Parliament there is a Ministers ' Council , each chamber having separate responsibility for the affairs of the population group it represents ( including housing , social welfare , health , education ) , while joint parliamentary responsibility is taken for " general " or national affairs ( including foreign policy , defence , finance , law and order ) , each of these functions at national level being reflected in a portfolio in the Cabinet itself . |
| 29 | In each of the three houses of Parliament there is a Ministers ' Council , each chamber having separate responsibility for the affairs of the population group it represents ( including housing , social welfare , health and education ) , while joint parliamentary responsibility is taken for " general " or national affairs ( including foreign policy , defence , finance and law and order ) , each of these functions at national level being reflected in a portfolio in the Cabinet itself . |
| 30 | The official receiver or trustee can agree costs though if there is a creditors ' committee , they can require the trustee to ask for any costs payable out of the estate to be taxed . |