Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both men were of obscure origin , but by the late 1420s they entered the service of Sir John Fastolf ; by 1433 Molyneux was the latter 's receiver-general , as well as serving the regent , Bedford . |
| 2 | Then it was the latter 's turn to make a blind swing into a bottomless groove to start the second pitch . |
| 3 | It was the latter 's son Joseph , now about 55 , who lived to see the whole enterprise brought to a halt by the hostilities . |
| 4 | What sealed the knot between Hunter and Lethieullier was the latter 's curiosity in all things funereal , including embalming , as will be seen later . |
| 5 | He guessed , correctly , that this was the Oriental 's intention . |
| 6 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |
| 7 | But while ‘ Deliverance ’ was a 70 's nightmare , exposing the soft-underbelly of the male ego and leaving the survivors weeping in their soup , ‘ City Slickers ’ is a product of the new-man 90's , where the soft underbelly is a source of pride . |
| 8 | It was a claustrophobic 's nightmare . |
| 9 | This was a local 's boat . |
| 10 | It was an hour-and-a-half 's drive away . |