Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes had become somewhat academic , however , when the evaluators arrived , by which time the committee 's activities had been suspended . |
| 2 | A defence lawyer said Wilson 's activities had been ‘ nipped in the bud ’ and his lifestyle had altered dramatically since the offences three years ago . |
| 3 | The findings again call into question the Government 's attempt to privatise nuclear power despite constant warnings over the costs The shadow Energy Secretary , Mr Frank Dobson , claimed yesterday that the CEGB 's accounts had been ‘ massaged and adjusted to suit the Government 's privatisation policies ’ . |
| 4 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 5 | At the close of hostilities that evening A.H.Q. Malta issued a communique stating that since the beginning of the fighting over the island , Malta 's defences had been credited with 132 destroyed , 44 probably destroyed and 58 damaged for the loss of 29 fighters , ten of the pilots having been saved . |
| 6 | Luke telephoned her early to tell her , tersely , what time he would fetch her that night , and although she put a frigid resentment into her voice Maria did n't demur , since it was in their public , professional capacities that the radio station 's personnel had been issued with complimentary tickets to the first Taiwanese appearance of a fairly famous American singer . |
| 7 | The impasse had resulted in California having no budget for 65 days , during which time the state 's authorities had been forced to issue more than $3,000 million-worth of " warrants " ( IOUs ) in order to meet payroll and other contractual obligations . |
| 8 | At the beginning of IOS one of Cornfeld 's associates had been Victor Herbert , who had quit early . |
| 9 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
| 10 | Even when Pearce 's innards had been completely absorbed and digested , the thing 's need was still strong . |
| 11 | Even so , the older woman 's reactions had been a bit over the top . |
| 12 | The Messiah whom Jesus 's contemporaries awaited was a variant of a familiar and long established principle . |
| 13 | By 1832 , William 's sons had been settled in professions and some of them had returned to Canada . |
| 14 | Milton had written a letter to one of the Stirlingshire lairds , assuring him of his friendship and advising him that one of the laird 's sons had been given a post as a salt officer . |
| 15 | The letter reveals that Turberville 's sons had been kept in Paris as hostages , and that he had been promised £100 worth of land as his reward for treachery . |
| 16 | The pragmatic approach of the courts to the question of when publication brings the obligation to an end is shown in Speed Seal Ltd v Paddington [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 1327 where the publication of the plaintiff 's secrets had been made by the defendant . |
| 17 | As the transcript of the judgment reveals , the Crown of Appeal was of the view that even if the appellant 's assertion of a right to be informed of the solicitor 's calls had been upheld , it does not follow that in all the circumstances of the case fairness would have required that the confession should have been excluded under section 78 . |
| 18 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 19 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 20 | Absolutely — and it is the Secretary of State 's Department that is guilty of taking benefits away from millions of people who would have benefited if the Labour Government 's policies had been maintained over the past 12 years by this tawdry , rotten Tory Government . |
| 21 | French public opinion was enraged by the attempt and was further inflamed when it became known that Orsini 's bombs had been made in Birmingham and the conspiracy hatched in London . |
| 22 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 23 | A typical Capricorn characteristic , if Debbie 's notes had been accurate in any way at all ! |
| 24 | The Prime Minister 's letter , printed in the next day 's Times had been conventionally appreciative but brief . |
| 25 | Mr MacGregor rejected Opposition charges that the Government 's plans had been torpedoed by the banks ' withdrawal when he made a statement to the Commons yesterday . |
| 26 | Only 22 managed to meet this date , but by 1955 a good submission record meant that about half the country 's plans had been approved , and the bulk by the end of the decade . |
| 27 | She had been far too busy trying to cope with the sale of the large estate , and by the time all her father 's debts had been settled there had been nothing left except the old Elizabethan Manor House . |
| 28 | The Congress of People 's Deputies had been created by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to be a new legislative body for the Soviet Union , and was elected in 1989 [ see pp. 36401 ; 36512-13 ] . |
| 29 | Johanna 's trainers had been placed neatly together in a hedgerow , 400 yards from the pit . |
| 30 | Later in the same month , the Daily Express carried reports by its defence correspondent , Chapman Pincher , that Wilson 's offices had been bugged by security men in both 10 Downing Street and the House of Commons . |