Example sentences of "be the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee . |
| 2 | ‘ Ron Fenton may seem an obvious choice to an outsider , ’ he said , ‘ but my inside knowledge tells me he would not be the players ' choice . |
| 3 | Right , so that 's India , so that 's good , so were , so the campaigns erm we are going to be involved in then er will be the Women 's campaign and India campaign . |
| 4 | At its most liberal this concept of housing design perceived the interiors of houses and in particular kitchens to be the women 's domain . |
| 5 | A Captain Beechey , sent by the newly established Marine Department of the Board of Trade to discuss their grievances and explain the Act had some difficulty in convincing his audience that Shipping Officers were intended to be the seamen 's friends , and that the Register Ticket , far from being a " badge of slavery " , gave them advantages . |
| 6 | The way in which the teams organise their work will be one focus of analysis : another will be the teams ' differing locations ( in observatories or universities ) , and the extenbhich their designs are influenced , not only by ‘ scientific goals ’ , but also by their perceptions of other important ‘ reference groups ’ ( eg other users , or committees considering the design of later facilities ) . |
| 7 | Big , bad and sad should be the companies ' mottoes . |
| 8 | I assume that will be the organisers ' decision having seen the picture on the front of the November edition . |
| 9 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 10 | The best starting point for understanding time and its measurement will be the children 's own experience and the landmarks in their own very short life such as birthdays , going to school , the birth of brothers and sisters , etc . |
| 11 | DORCHESTER : Feared to be the terrorists ' target |
| 12 | It 's , it was the architects ' department erm , till they go like you know , till they Palatine Hall erm , it used to be the architects ' department . |
| 13 | The consequence of this logic of action is that the management of the state enterprise ceases to be the unions ' sole potential bargaining partner . |
| 14 | Kazakhstan 's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbekistan 's President Islam Karimov both condemned the way in which the draft treaty had been thrust upon the republics by the centre , and took the same line as the Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin in arguing that it should be the republics ' prerogative to dictate what powers the centre should retain . |
| 15 | The only way people can be safe is to assume they could be the thieves ' next target and do what they can to protect their horses . |
| 16 | Such demands failed , however , to quell the discontent , which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher , a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters ' overwhelming choice to replace her . |