Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [verb] that [pron] [was/were] " 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 | But shortly after the trial the twin 's parents announced that they were considering pursuing a civil case for damages . |
3 | But the next day Basil 's parents explained that she was going to live with her uncle in Yorkshire , in the north of England . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Foujita , an inventive witness , claimed that they were lovers , although Jeanne 's friends insist that she was a virgin when she met Modigliani . |
8 | Nick 's friends wrote that it was the best party they had ever been to , a truly unforgettable occasion . |
9 | Ramsey 's friends thought that he was an agnostic and were surprised to see him so prominent at the mission . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |