Example sentences of "be [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 2 | MARK MELTON has been the Musicians ' Union 's music business adviser since 1987 . |
| 3 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 4 | By combining traditional craftsmanship with state of the art electronics , Yamaha 's APX range of electro-acoustic guitars has long been the professionals ' choice for performing and recording alike . |
| 5 | The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 . |
| 6 | Parents had , inevitably in a Direct Grant school , always been closely involved since they were , numerically , the biggest source of income for new building projects , which could not be financed from fees ; but the only formal organization had been the Ladies ' Committee , in whose capable hands the Autumn Fairs and Scandinavian Evenings had prospered over the years . |
| 7 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 8 | For Mr Pilkington , of Clevegate , Nunthorpe , Middlesbrough , is a crossword fanatic who has twice been The Times ' national champion . |
| 9 | Their concern was not that others might come here one day and identify the place as having been the kidnappers ' hideout ; rather , that those examiners would never discover who the kidnappers had been . |
| 10 | Son of Gifford Tate , the painter , he had been the Garlands ' doctor since , at his father 's death , he had returned to Falmouth and set up practice in the family house . |
| 11 | It had long been the nuns ' ambition that Eve Malone be thought of as a lady . |
| 12 | The directive was aimed at Sinn Fein and the UDA but it could not have been the legislators ' intention that the broadcasting authority should be impartial between the terrorists and the terrorised . |
| 13 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 14 | French doors led into a room that had once been the guests ' lounge , but was now converted into the dining-room . |
| 15 | The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels ' primary objective since 18 July . |
| 16 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 17 | However , ‘ skilled hands ’ were the operative words , and because most amateurs found secateurs easier to handle and use , whether they were good , clean , bad , or indifferent in the cut , secateurs — often of the most inexpensive and dubious quality — have always been the amateurs ' cutting tool . |
| 18 | They progressed along dark stone corridors , past various pantries and flights of steps , arriving eventually in what later turned out to have been the servants ' hall and was now superficially , and partially , converted for modern living . |
| 19 | It was a rambling house and the Mollands lived in what had once been the servants ' quarters ; the vicar had the rest of the place to himself . |
| 20 | What are the philosophers ' children like ? |
| 21 | What are the parents ' childhood experiences ? |
| 22 | He is accusing the farmers of being irresponsible and silly , because the figures I have given are the farmers ' . |
| 23 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 24 | These interested , shifting publics are the agencies ' significant audiences . |
| 25 | The Balkans are the Greeks ' natural new hinterland : or , rather , their rediscovered hinterland . |
| 26 | Nor are the dancers ' physical abilities . |
| 27 | So much mere lip-service is paid to the concept of the primacy of users ' needs , and so often are the users ' needs merely perceived rather than ascertained , that library services fall short of users ' real needs or requirements too often . |
| 28 | Snow White 's cottage at the far end is , in actual fact , the club house and the two giant toadstools are the players ' dressing rooms . |
| 29 | Reliable domestiques are the stars ' most valued comrades — and by long tradition they share the stars ' winnings . |
| 30 | Specifically , The Mary Whitehouse Experience is an experience in wankers and turds , which are the boys ' two favourite words . |