Example sentences of "[pron] be the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye well you see there was a a local departmental committee , of which I was the employees ' employees ' side , of which I was secretary . |
| 2 | Specifically , The Mary Whitehouse Experience is an experience in wankers and turds , which are the boys ' two favourite words . |
| 3 | It is interesting to discover which are the ants ' favourite foods . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There follows a white villa which was the Jesuits ' summer house . |
| 9 | She is the fairies ' midwife , and she comes |
| 10 | She is the sisters ' friend and mine , too , she has come to tea on my birthday . |
| 11 | So , just who is the hairdressers ' choice ? |
| 12 | Henley took quite an interest in her and she was the Ladies ' President from 1920–1925 . |
| 13 | ‘ She was the kids ' cat . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There 's the Magistrates ' Court and then above it there 's the Crown Court . |
| 16 | Now there 's the Artists ' Rights Bill . |
| 17 | ‘ There was the parents ' estate , his father 's estate , the Doors ' estate — and they were all fighting . |
| 18 | There was the Masters ' Room on the ground floor — they took it out to put in a new directors ' lift — and whenever one of our ships docked in London her master would come for a drink and a chat with Mr.Andrew — like a sort of club , it was . |
| 19 | Whether they 're the citizens ' charter , whether they are response to people from the press or from the public or constantly ringing in to the switchboard , or whether it 's by all the other ways in which we disseminate information . |
| 20 | And I 'm sure the districts a lot has been said about er it being the districts ' view that well you know we 've got this policy so we will we will exercise a high level of restraining to protect the countryside against all comers etcetera etcetera . |
| 21 | This is n't our home , it 's the residents ' home . |
| 22 | This is n't our home , it 's the residents ' home . |
| 23 | As motion twenty seven has said so clearly it 's the members ' money . |
| 24 | And I think it 's the tenants ' group which got together the , the , the sum of all those complaints , m erm which er and , and put them together to , to find what those common complaints were . |
| 25 | Sort of history and things do the Catholics teach in it 's the protestants ' fault and stuff like that |
| 26 | It 's the ladies ' turn — MO'G ) |
| 27 | I was knocking and then and then he said and er I just stood there he said like you know you 're not allowed to be here it 's too late , it 's the boys ' area erm come on , sort out , you know , come on sort it out you know like he says that |
| 28 | If it carries on flying we shrug our shoulders and say , ‘ it 's the angels ' turn today ’ . |
| 29 | It 's the songs ' incoherence — for who can keep themselves together in a world that 's falling apart — that gives them their power : to hurt , if not to motivate . |
| 30 | No male member of the Royal family had ever been directly involved with the hospital before , but she feels strongly that when children are in hospital it is the parents ' problem , not just the mother 's , and so the request was specifically for them both to be patrons . |