Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] [was/were] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crosby 's side were relegation candidates only a month ago and the Roker boss was everybody 's tip for the axe . |
| 2 | Mm saw him coming have to get it cos Neil 's mum was cross about it . |
| 3 | The Syrian role in Polhill 's release was part of a general rapprochement between Syria and the USA , facilitated by their shared commitment to the October 1989 Taif accord on Lebanon [ see p. 36986 ] and by Syrian apprehension over the cooling of ties with its traditional patron , the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | The essence of Arsenal 's style was speed , with intermediate passing reduced to a minimum and every move subordinated to the aim of scoring . |
| 5 | While Ramsey was a canon the chapter appointed a new vicar ; and while Ramsey 's predecessor was bishop , a minority of the parishioners started to protest against the vicar 's innovations and were in a strong position because the vicar introduced certain ornaments without the necessary faculty to do so . |
| 6 | But Branson 's attitude was simplicity itself . |
| 7 | Carleton 's father was receiver to the abbot of Westminster and later deputy receiver-general to the dean and chapter , a connection which secured his son a Westminster exhibition at Christ Church , Oxford , whence he passed to Gray 's Inn in 1552 . |
| 8 | Rocky 's goal was onside ! |
| 9 | Martin pushed and in the centre of Richard 's belly was pain . |
| 10 | Alcock 's nova was world news . |
| 11 | Mrs Blackler 's agency was number one so I went there . ’ |
| 12 | Lexandro 's father was Calculator Maximus to Lord Spinoza , whose clan owned lower hab factories that built Mammoth class land-trains to traverse the ash wastes on great cleated tracks , stoutly armoured to resist assault by nomads . |
| 13 | Jane 's reply was instant . |
| 14 | Stalin 's argument was part of a broader one that he derived from Lenin : the right of national self-determination was valid only where countries were passing from feudalism to capitalism . |
| 15 | It looked like a simple repair job to me and I thought the gloom on Mick 's face was part of his act . |
| 16 | Hodkinson 's confidence was sky high . |
| 17 | Churchill 's favourite was Desert Victory ( 1943 ) , a loosely-structured account of the Desert Campaigns , but the most remarkable documentary of this period was Humphrey Jennings ' Fires were Started ( 1943 ) . |
| 18 | Hauser 's offer was balm . |
| 19 | Their bodies were only discovered after about a fortnight ; it was not clear whether Kelly 's death was part of a suicide pact . |
| 20 | A report from a consultant pathologist said the cause of Mrs Colbert 's death was blood poisoning due to burns . |
| 21 | But the mastermind of Bangor 's victory was midfielder Byrne . |
| 22 | She wished she could tell him that was nonsense but she feared Pascoe 's death was confirmation of something she had imagined , not proof of something she had found incredible . |
| 23 | Mr Graham 's face was puce . |
| 24 | Sometimes they had to attend the fashionable church in Mayfair where Canon Broome 's brother-in-law was rector . |
| 25 | Fred 's voice was acid . |
| 26 | Kaye 's role was collate and to act as guide . |
| 27 | Kaye 's role was collate and to act as guide . |
| 28 | long term survivors ( six to nine years ) after irradiation or chemotherapy have been described in patients in whom primary oesophageal non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was part of more widespread disease . |
| 29 | ‘ Tom 's swing was poetry in motion . |
| 30 | Miss Shields ' act was perfection itself . |