Example sentences of "[noun] ' [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zeppelins ' glory was short-lived – well-documented disaster , but in the 1930s the most romantic of all planes , the flying-boat , came to the fore . |
| 2 | The guards ' toilet was halfway up the stairs to their room . |
| 3 | The Scots ' intervention was motivated almost entirely by religion , the price for their help being a commitment by parliament to introduce a Scottish-style Presbyterian church system into England at the earliest opportunity . |
| 4 | The entrance to de Raimes ' castle was a death trap , no less . |
| 5 | Unless de Raimes ' castle was falling down by itself , he was under attack from someone , and if no one came for her she could be buried alive , forgotten , trapped in the darkness until death overcame her . |
| 6 | Does the Prime Minister realise that many people in Great Britain greatly welcome the fact that the first Heads of Government meeting in the United Nations ' history was chaired by a British Prime Minister ? |
| 7 | The backbenchers ' unrest was underlined by the rousing ovation they gave to Chancellor Nor-man Lamont at a private meeting yesterday . |
| 8 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 9 | Saddlers ' Hall was sent into the lead by Pat Eddery two furlongs out and annihilated his opponents , sprinting clear to score by 10 lengths . |
| 10 | The rest of the Macleans ' costume was made up of weapons — dirk and sword , spear and tall Lochaber axe , javelin and bow , and even a couple of new-fangled handguns . |
| 11 | In that situation , a lack of trust in the tutors ' role was inevitable . |
| 12 | By November 1965 , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was being launched in London to the full glare of press publicity by James Dance , MP for Bromsgrove , by then another leading figure in the campaign . |
| 13 | In one a term of three months ' imprisonment was imposed in respect of much publicised suggestions by a trade union official that a particular decision had been reached only because of pressure exerted by a demonstrating rank and file . |
| 14 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 15 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 16 | A war of years ' rather than months ' duration was then ensured by the Soviet Union 's rallying to the Republic 's aid . |
| 17 | The turning point came in 1972 when Ken Mentle dug deep into his pocket and bought a deluxe Portakabin for directors and players , and the Supporters ' Club was given the drain end as its new home . |
| 18 | Their last world drivers ' champion was the Brazilian Nelson Piquet in 1983 . |
| 19 | The drivers ' uncertainty was due in part to the vagaries of the train from Khartoum , on which half the town seemed to be waiting . |
| 20 | Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia . |
| 21 | The Unwins ' entourage was disappearing into the Clubhouse entrance , no doubt for more champagne and press interviews , and probably all the other owners would be in there with them . |
| 22 | The hornets ' nest was ripped from the branch as the strip passed by . |
| 23 | On that occasion , the inspectors ' report was handed to the press at the same time as it was referred to the DPP for possible criminal proceedings . |
| 24 | It was not until towards the end of 1986 that the Stock Exchange Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' Exam was introduced . |
| 25 | Chapelcross has won one of the awards before but the brothers ' achievement was particularly pleasing , said Training Officer Willie Banks . |
| 26 | On the basis of the information above , calculate what the brothers ' wealth was at the start and end of the six months and what profit had been made . |
| 27 | The brothers ' room was dim and shadowed ; she made out their two shapes with difficulty . |
| 28 | AMPES ' work was basically to try and get more women to join the trade unions and political organizations . |
| 29 | Keynes ' work was directed at yet another source of market failure — inadequate information available to market traders , in particular firms and workers , so that the market can not achieve the equilibrium wage rate at which there would be full employment . |
| 30 | I said the kids ' crusade was curdling now , everyone had overdosed , but she would n't listen . |