Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same message is coming over time and time again : man 's activities are destroying the planet , and the environmentalists are the most likely people to save the planet . |
| 2 | The bidder 's shareholders are offered the new shares pro rata to their existing shareholdings in the bidder , known as an " open offer " . |
| 3 | Richard Chauncy 's improvements were taken a step further by William Henry Chauncy , who caused the village of Edgcote with its eighteen families to be removed from his prospect sometime before 1788 . |
| 4 | If the acquirer 's solicitors are to prepare the agreement , it is very important that they are fully informed as to the acquirer 's aims and concerns about the acquisition and its assessment of its bargaining position and that they discuss the draft with the acquirer before it is released to the seller . |
| 5 | The main thrust of Green 's proposals was to modify the 1932 arrangements so that , as originally intended , a balanced committee would be established . |
| 6 | The other ally whom Gloucester gained as a result of Edward IV 's policies was to prove an altogether more dubious asset . |
| 7 | The other ally whom Gloucester gained as a result of Edward IV 's policies was to prove an altogether more dubious asset . |
| 8 | Rosa 's fingers were twisting the ends of her belt . |
| 9 | Some of Ted 's opponents were finding the Backdoor . |
| 10 | The Midland 's branches were making an average profit of less than £7,000 each , compared with almost £10,000 at Barclays , National Westminster and Lloyds . |
| 11 | Old Priam ( fig. 92 ) watching Hector arm is made bald and stubbly ; and in the three great revellers on the back of the same vase ( fig. 93 ) Euphronios 's écorchés are given a more natural layer of fat over the muscle , and the foreshortening of the torsos is really remarkable . |
| 12 | The group 's goals are to understand the factors influencing the origin , development and character of hydrocarbon reservoirs , and to develop and apply techniques to improve the location and characterisation of reservoirs . |
| 13 | Because the original speaker 's words are stored the personal characteristics remain , even the accent is readily detectable in some cases . |
| 14 | Bucharest 's shops are supplying a population deprived for years of everything but the poorest-quality basics . |
| 15 | These Mirror 's pictures were to rock the world |
| 16 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 17 | Again ! ’ said the Robemaker , his voice liquid and clotted now , and the two slaves swung again , a little higher this time , so that the hard , straight shin bones were sliced across , and the boy 's legs were shortened a little more . |
| 18 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 19 | At least this part of Dubrulle 's prayers was answered the following year . |
| 20 | Of course , David 's bodyguards were guarding the door and I went to see what they wanted and this guy , who said he was the night detective , announced that unless we emptied the room in five minutes , he was going to close the party down . |
| 21 | So long as one of the applicant 's motives is to obtain a favourable outcome , leave should be granted provided the claim is not unarguable . |
| 22 | NOT the least onerous of the Hong Kong Governor 's duties is to wear a big fore-and-aft hat billowing with goose feathers . |
| 23 | Another area of Kieren 's duties is to advise the Passenger Transport Authority which owns a metropolitan railway , a bus company and vehicle toll tunnel under the Tyne . |
| 24 | One of the Mamur Zapt 's duties was to read the press before publication and excise any passage he considered inflammatory . |
| 25 | The chancellor 's duties were to oversee the issue of all curial correspondence . |
| 26 | At first Wolff 's duties were to manage the yard and provide engineering skills ; but later , through his links with the Jewish community in Britain and Hamburg , he was to bring a large amount of business to the yard . |
| 27 | The subdeacon 's duties were to prepare the bread and wine and the vessels for the mass and to chant the Epistle . |
| 28 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 29 | And while half of all American robots are making cars or trucks , Japan 's robots are performing a much wider variety of jobs . |
| 30 | INDIA 'S cricketers were given a huge confidence-booster this week … by the England selectors ! |