Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of subject labels , children 's curriculum experiences tended to be dominated by writing , with reading , using task-specific apparatus , and listening to the teacher also prominent ; collaborative activity and talking — with the teacher or with other pupils — were a long way behind . |
| 2 | The same conclusion would probably be reached if the tenant 's break notice had to be served before the last date for service of the landlord 's notice calling for a rent review . |
| 3 | Craig 's Vanguard Movement seemed to be making most of the running on the right wing of unionist politics and the DUP seemed to lack a clear policy direction . |
| 4 | The lack of ground cover and the convection current produced by the sun-heated exposed rock had resulted in little ground water and in reduced rainfall , so that the bulk of the island 's drinking water had to be transported by the ships arriving to collect phosphate . |
| 5 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile another method of utilising livestock was explored : the preservation of slaughtered meat , by the traditional methods of salting and drying , by some sort of concentration ( Liebig 's meat extract began to be produced in the River Plate states in 1863 ) , by canning and finally by the decisive device of refrigeration . |
| 7 | In addition , the nursery 's policy statement had to be renegotiated , as had the recording and evaluation procedures . |
| 8 | NOT long ago Germany 's insurance industry seemed to be sinking under a Gallic invasion . |
| 9 | ’ You know , ’ he went on , ’ I often wonder what it must have been like before people 's working lives began to be separated from their personal lives . |
| 10 | And of course what I want to know most of all is why Paul 's number plate happened to be in Lord Cumbermound 's stable . ’ |
| 11 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |