Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr 's defence had been legally unusual , that of necessity . |
| 2 | But I think you could do , see the whole great thing about what 's happening in this electronic change in print is that broadcasting 's advantage has been almost completely wiped out . |
| 3 | It has an impressive list of collaborators and the first year 's course has been fully subscribed . |
| 4 | Chairman the St Albans traffic issue , the erm bus for quite a long period of time but throughout that period of time Chairman the County Council 's decision has been absolutely clear . |
| 5 | A short wooden sword was clutched in one grimy hand and the boy 's shirt had been well and truly ripped . |
| 6 | This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school . |
| 7 | Dimity 's knitting had been hastily put aside when she answered the door , and decorated a low table near the fire . |
| 8 | Matthew 's assessment had been embarrassingly accurate . |
| 9 | Jim and Jonathan had been away , picketing and pamphleteering in Reading , had simply been not available , and Jo 's squat had been suddenly repossessed and it did not occur to any of the women that the boys would mind . |
| 10 | But this time Major 's reserve had been more genuine . |
| 11 | THE chief executive of Teesside Training and Enterprise Council last night claimed the TEC 's chairman had been wrongly accused in a ‘ cheap labour ’ row . |
| 12 | Kerry 's hair had been recently cut but she decided to go for another snip when she arrived at the studio . |
| 13 | The Central Authority 's ambition to standardise was also based on the role accorded to it by statute ‘ … to co-ordinate the distribution of electricity by Area Boards and to exercise a general control over the policy of those Boards ’ . |
| 14 | By bad luck , the question of women 's emancipation has been most often seen as parallel to that of non-European races . |
| 15 | Pereira 's defeat had been widely predicted following the rout of his nominally Marxist African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in the first multiparty legislative elections , on Jan. 13 , when Monteiro 's Movement for Democracy ( MPD ) won 56 of the 79 seats in the National People 's Assembly [ see p. 37948 ] . |
| 16 | The observer 's readiness to modify is admirably honest ( Mr Palomar is a nice man ) and ultimately exhausting : the process of adjustment can go only so far before atrophy threatens . |
| 17 | Will pollsters falling over themselves to admit their errors , there is a danger that the public 's and clients ' faith in the mysterious art of tapping the nation 's mind has been irreparably damaged . |
| 18 | Although Dowding 's administration had been narrowly returned to office in February 1989 [ see p. 36466 ] , its popularity continued to decline in the face of ongoing allegations concerning its financial competence and its relationship with beleaguered Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 19 | Downstairs the bar 's lay-out has been cleverly designed so as to lend a feeling of space without losing a certain cosiness . |
| 20 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 21 | Up to this point , Dowland 's piece has been almost exclusively homophonic , but in the last four beats of the third bar quoted above the voices each have slight differences in note-lengths and the placing of syllables . |
| 22 | Franjieh 's rule had been particularly corrupt ; his son Tony was exalted to the Cabinet through a process of nepotism scarcely rivalled elsewhere in the Middle East . |
| 23 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |
| 24 | Perhaps the internal strains within the authorities of a newly-reunited Germany — and the demands of public opinion in the old East — make any punitive measures against ex-Easterners peculiarly uncomfortable to promote at this time ( and Krabbe 's coach has been widely fingered as a luminary in East Germany 's old chemically-enhanced Sportkulur . ) |
| 25 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |
| 26 | Bertolt Brecht 's aphorism has been dramatically reversed while we pause for breath . |
| 27 | Italy 's pro-Europeanism has been partly based on the belief that Italy does not have a real state , just corrupt politicians , and that the EC will provide one . |
| 28 | In spite of her affected disinterest , Taureg 's return had been well worth watching . |
| 29 | Healey 's influence had been further enhanced by the resignation of McNamara as US secretary of defense in 1968 . |
| 30 | Had she risen to this intangible slight bait because she knew Hatton 's wealth had been dishonestly come by ? |