Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [verb] that [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 2 | An official survey of Gloucestershire 's roads shows that they 're in their worst state for fifteen years . |
| 3 | Thus the first of Turan 's lists notes that it is nine years since the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha , Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " ( which therefore would have occurred in 840 ) , while the lists given by Menage record the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " in 839 . |
| 4 | But shortly after the trial the twin 's parents announced that they were considering pursuing a civil case for damages . |
| 5 | But the next day Basil 's parents explained that she was going to live with her uncle in Yorkshire , in the north of England . |
| 6 | Kramar 's descendants argue that he was pressurised by the government to hand his collection over , and therefore that the State acquired the work illegally and the paintings should be given back . |
| 7 | The lack of analysis of specific songs in Adorno 's writings means that it is impossible to know whether he is talking about real pieces or , more likely , ideal types . |
| 8 | The defendant made similar controllers and used a total of 49 of the plaintiff 's mnemonics arguing that there was no copyright in them because , once the functions had been decided , there was no room for skill and labour in devising the mnemonics . |
| 9 | The vast majority of Oxfordshire 's teachers claim that they were involved or very involved in their school 's review , an equally large majority ( four-fifths ) feel competent to carry out a review and that theirs was thorough or very thorough . |
| 10 | Foujita , an inventive witness , claimed that they were lovers , although Jeanne 's friends insist that she was a virgin when she met Modigliani . |
| 11 | Nick 's friends wrote that it was the best party they had ever been to , a truly unforgettable occasion . |
| 12 | Ramsey 's friends thought that he was an agnostic and were surprised to see him so prominent at the mission . |
| 13 | May 9 , 1972 The House of Lords decision in Launchbury v. Morgans led Mr Ali 's advisers to believe that it was impossible to continue the action . |
| 14 | Some of Mrs Thatcher 's critics claim that she is not a Conservative at all , at least not in the paternalist tradition of Disraeli and One Nation Conservatism . |
| 15 | Blake 's researches showed that there are some thirty or so basic messages which are used by the domestic horse , and there are another seventeen phrases that are used occasionally or in special situations , for example , those messages between a mare and her foal , or a stallion and a mare . |
| 16 | Despite creating a theory with a series of levels of semiosis it fails to support the substantive analyses in Mythologies where Barthes 's examples show that it is not merely the formal structure of signification that he is interested in . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's elections showed that there is now a widespread cynicism about the political system . |
| 18 | I did , from the moment we met , almost as soon as the first throb of the Mantela 's engines announced that we were on our way . |