Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 2 | The Doctor marched towards a Georgian building which bore all the signs of being a sailors ' brothel . |
| 3 | That big room , apart from being the girls ' bedroom , was our pièce de résistance . |
| 4 | There 's soon to be a beginners ' wall as well , but the most impressive construction is an immense leading wall built by DR Climbing Walls . |
| 5 | It happened to be a goods ' entrance , and as she pushed open the heavy doors and slipped inside the deafening noise hit her — of hammering and drilling and the drone of the hydraulic pumps that operated the floor levels together with the shouts of the men operating the overhead cranes . |
| 6 | Yes , training to be a factories ' inspector . |
| 7 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 8 | Solaris 2.0 was only supposed to be a developers ' release in the first place . |
| 9 | Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee . |
| 10 | DORCHESTER : Feared to be the terrorists ' target |
| 11 | The consequence of this logic of action is that the management of the state enterprise ceases to be the unions ' sole potential bargaining partner . |
| 12 | Such demands failed , however , to quell the discontent , which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher , a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters ' overwhelming choice to replace her . |
| 13 | It 's , it was the architects ' department erm , till they go like you know , till they Palatine Hall erm , it used to be the architects ' department . |