Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage Hitler 's plans were still fluid , but the last thing he wanted was for the useful Danzig problem to be solved . |
| 2 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |
| 3 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 4 | The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes . |
| 5 | Rendel Harris 's gods were originally plants . |
| 6 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 7 | This was a very different place to Gloucester , where the Empress 's ladies were virtually servants themselves , but in the flurry of introductions and orders for a place in the ladies ' chamber to be made ready for her Isabel forgot about comparisons . |
| 8 | By now , some of Tiller 's Girls were truly world travellers ; the best troupes had bookings in Paris , St Petersburg , San Francisco , Berlin , Cape Town , Hanover , Geneva , Vienna , Buenos Aires and Hamburg . |
| 9 | Over half ( 53 per cent ) of women 's payments were under £750 and three-quarters under £1,500 . |
| 10 | But North 's memoranda were also aspirations , plans , dreams and imaginings , as much as schedules of facts . |
| 11 | Cunningham had strengthened his belief that if he could only follow the clues for which Heather 's photographs were somehow emblems he would find the truth — and Heather with it . |