Example sentences of "be [adv] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What is more , it is the individual speakers themselves who " identify the groups " on which they model their behaviour : the groups are thus the speakers ' own creations , not the creations of analysts . |
| 2 | WHILE The Stones appealed to the students , and the Beatles to the girls and their mums , The Who were always the lads ' band . |
| 3 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 4 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 5 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
| 6 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 7 | I do n't know , it 's not the parents ' fault . |
| 8 | Fitness is totally the players ' responsibility , not mine . ’ |
| 9 | there is still the stars ' brightness |
| 10 | Her Henley card of 72 gross ( handicap 4 ) in 1969 , is still the Ladies ' record 5.3.5.3.4.4.3.5.4. ( 36 ) 4.3.5.3.5.4.3.4.5(36) . |
| 11 | That is still the insects ' solution . |
| 12 | Male sterilization is more normal among middle-class couples ; among working-class couples it is more the wives ' responsibility ( General Household Survey 1984 ) . |
| 13 | That sewer , with its ‘ phosphorescent scraps of rotten fish … bubbles of poisonous gas , and bloated carcases of dogs , and lumps of offal , floating on the stagnant olive-green hell-broth ’ , is also the occupants ' water-supply . |
| 14 | ( See the earliest drawing ) , was unsatisfactory , so in September 1908 a trial tee was constructed somewhere near what is now the ladies ' winter tee on the 16th , the 17th green being more or less as we know today , although at this time a twin green with the first . |
| 15 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
| 16 | Although the planners , writers , illustrators and publishers of textbooks and children 's books in general have the power to influence attitudes and to develop a sense of equality and respect for all , it is frequently the teachers ' selection of texts on a ‘ gender-aware ’ basis , and with a view to the overall literary diet of pupils , which is a deciding factor . |
| 17 | That is how the subjects ' reasons figure in the justification , both when they are correctly reflected in a particular directive and when they are not . |
| 18 | It takes visual sensitivity to realise that a meandering medieval street is quite different from the traffic engineers ' meandering street and this is why the consultants ' perspective drawings look so horribly wrong . |
| 19 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 20 | That 's why the workers ' weekly pennies went to pay men like Bobby to speak for them and that 's just what Bobby Keith could do best . |
| 21 | The pool was just bel just beside the harbourmaster 's office just a little further where it is now , cos what we had , what we call the yard , that 's where the engineers ' workshops was , the carpenters ' shop , which is still there and then little further up th up the Newcut East there was the pool place for the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 22 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 23 | But erm another funny story that er always sticks in my mind is er when we sent memos to the Clerks ' Department and there was only the Clerks ' Department , they were , they were trying to erm improve their public image as |
| 24 | The big worry for Town is that Arsenal 's goal came from the prolific Ian Wright , his 23rd this season , although it was only The Gunners ' fourth goal in 15 games . |
| 25 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |
| 26 | What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts . |
| 27 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 28 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 29 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 30 | The change of abode and servants was not the princes ' only misfortune . |