Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no article concerning the freedom of the press and the bans on journalists ' activities were broadened . |
| 2 | There was no article concerning the freedom of the press and the bans on journalists ' activities were broadened . |
| 3 | Is it one of those reactions that occur spontaneously when journalists ' ink is mixed with an equal measure of pure ignorance ? |
| 4 | The Halls ' purpose is not simply to attract musicians such as Nigel Kennedy and Courtney Pine . |
| 5 | The guards ' toilet was halfway up the stairs to their room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wheels and parts of the cars ' undercarriage were scattered along the track as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from the wreckage of the train in the Amsterdam suburb of Hoofddorp . |
| 8 | It can be argued that decision-makers ' aims are often not to maximise profits ( or sales etc. ) but to achieve a satisfactory level ( of profits ) . |
| 9 | He says he found out the calves ' tongues were grey and pink . |
| 10 | It is clearly essential that the fire authority 's requirements are complied with in this regard , be they reasonable or not , but there is no harm in insisting upon any insurers ' requirements being reasonable and , in any event , the reference to the landlord 's requirements , reasonable or otherwise , should be deleted . |
| 11 | Now , three-fifths of insurers ' assets are bonds — a quarter of them government bonds . |
| 12 | The FASB rule applies only to assets held for trading ; the bulk of insurers ' assets are long-term investments , and so will continue to be shown at their historic value . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 15 | The draw for the new European Cup Winners ' Cup is to be made today . |
| 16 | Thus survivors ' pensions are of greater concern to women than to men . |
| 17 | If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors . |
| 18 | Well droppings foxes ' droppings are often distinctive . |
| 19 | The backbenchers ' unrest was underlined by the rousing ovation they gave to Chancellor Nor-man Lamont at a private meeting yesterday . |
| 20 | Their speeches to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna delivered a double rebuff to China and other countries which say their circumstances are special and that their peoples ' rights are no-one else 's affair . |
| 21 | AS THE political parties ' election campaigns grind into their final week , many peoples ' thoughts are turning to Easter holidays and plans to get away from it all-assuming they can still afford it , that is . |
| 22 | Confident that your market research tells you that peoples ' houses are overrun with mice , and having used technology from the nuclear industry to develop a better mouse trap , you still have to tell people about it . |
| 23 | Ongoing counselling offered the opportunity to explore further areas ; regular reviews at the old peoples ' home are part of the necessary monitoring of the situation . |
| 24 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 25 | That is , whereas Lok is freed from quasi-metaphorical thought patterns and learns to use comparison , separating concepts and seeing them independently , the reader is shown the comparison first , then , with the deletion of like the peoples ' view is represented . |
| 26 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 27 | Another important statute , the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , which deals with manufacturers ' liability is also considered later ( chapter 9 ) . |
| 28 | Manufacturers ' sizing is variable . |
| 29 | This is particularly useful when manufacturers ' software is available ( as for example SEARCH ON KEY for IBM computers ) to carry out the search automatically . |
| 30 | Manufacturers ' software is usually available for a SEARCH ON KEY operation throughout a whole cylinder . |