Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire . |
| 2 | ‘ I am King Stephen 's sheriff of Shropshire , ’ said Hugh , ‘ and in pursuit of that same errant saint . |
| 3 | had been Hull University 's social secretary and was a successful agent representing British and international artists . |
| 4 | An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down . |
| 5 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 6 | But perhaps the most moving after all are Bernard Gotfryd 's own feelings , just because he so rarely mentions them . |
| 7 | By contrast , although there have been disagreements Israel 's bond with the United States has been rock-solid , built upon agreement ‘ concerning the nature and extent of the Soviet threat to the region ’ . |
| 8 | I asked a mystified Robins , who explained with a laugh that it had been Colonel Fawcett 's idea . |
| 9 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 10 | Also offered , under the heading of ‘ Political Ideology ’ , are Revilo Oliver 's deeply antisemitic Conspiracy of Degeneracy , and one of the most antisemitic of recent conspiracy publications , William Grimstad 's Antizion . |
| 11 | Greetings cards range includes puffins , landscapes , Edinburgh and wildflowers. 1994 Scotland Diary , 1994 calendars are Colin Baxter 's Scotland , Scottish Lochs , Scotland Appointment Calendar , Edinburgh , Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
| 12 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 13 | Are Colonel Mortimer 's men here ? ’ |
| 14 | But apart from racing , rugby and golf fans businessmen are Orient Air 's staple . |
| 15 | Arthur 's Miller 's plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman are now regarded as virtual classics , and so are Tennessee William 's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire . |
| 16 | They are Richard Walker 's Mk IV design of 1½lb test-curve , but they were very expensive rods at the time I bought them for they are made of cane called Palakona . |
| 17 | It was June the fifteenth , and would have been Evan Roberts ' 85th birthday , but he died a month before . |
| 18 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 19 | Alan Wheat has been Kansas City 's congressman since 1982 . |
| 20 | Dexter remembered she had once been David Parkin 's lover . |
| 21 | This had long been Meredith Putt 's favourite ride . |
| 22 | Amongst the most celebrated are Beatrix Potter 's Hill Top in the Lake District ; Bateman 's , Kipling 's Jacobean house in East Sussex ; Lamb House in Rye , beloved by Henry James , but immortalised by E.F . |
| 23 | I felt like that there was a … a more concrete and unifying decision , that … that decision was what are Dr Carrington 's chances of being alive in any sense whatsoever , in having any human experiences , away from the hospital and away from this ventilator ? |
| 24 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 25 | Da Lench Mob are Ice Cube 's pals . |
| 26 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 27 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 28 | The other laureates are South Africa 's Archbishop Desmond Tutu ; Northern Ireland 's Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan-Maguire ; Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina ; Ross Daniels representing Amnesty International and Donna Kyle Anderton , representing the Quaker organisation the American Friends Service Committee . |
| 29 | Also on offer are Lucian Freud 's ‘ Man in a Sports Shirt ’ and ‘ Korsika ( Sonne ) ’ by Gerhard Richter , which is estimated at £70–90,000 ( $125–160,000 ) , as well as a large collection of works by Marcel Broodhaers . |
| 30 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |