Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems less plausible in the United States , where productivity growth has slowed down and foreigners ' have built up large claims on US output . |
| 2 | The gap between your recommendations and the manufacturers ' seems a large one . |
| 3 | In The Inheritors the two " voices ' represent incompatible world views . |
| 4 | The identification of clients ' presenting problems and the selection of suitable remedies require greater knowledge than this , the foundation of which must be research . |
| 5 | The recession has made small practices particularly vulnerable , as they lose fee income through clients ' going out of business ; nor do they get paid for work in progress , says Ernst & Young insolvency practitioner Alan Lovett . |
| 6 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 7 | The poet John Clare 's father was a country labourer in Northamptonshire who managed to secure for his son around three months ' schooling a year . |
| 8 | She had no relapse during 18 months ' follow up , and results of lung function tests were normal . |
| 9 | Er the the study actually lasted two months but the er the behaviour continued at ninety p at ninety percent for nine months ' follow up . |
| 10 | As ye know , most doctors in the islands get six months ' leave every three years , and I volunteered to take one man 's place soon after I had qualified . |
| 11 | What is important to note , therefore , is that governments often abruptly or gradually change their policies , generally around the mid-term of Parliament , and that continuities occur in spite of the parties ' starting out with different policies . |
| 12 | However , I was concerned to read the remarks attributed to sole practitioner Geoffrey Day in which he observes that firms which ‘ train certifieds ' do not have to be formal training offices . |
| 13 | Recommended as best of the classy kids ' shows : The Red Balloon , Albert Lamorisse 's Fifties French fable of a small boy and his big red friend , adapted and stylishly staged by Anthony Clark at Contact Theatre in Manchester for primary school age . |
| 14 | Further increase of y leads to a " breathing " behaviour : a slow modulation of the oscillation , which develops into an output consisting of " spikes ' followed by quiescent intervals . |
| 15 | This improvement is achieved by the subjects ' making an extra compensatory effort , measurable in terms of increased muscle tension ( EMG ) . |
| 16 | Who brought in that pile of Readers ' Digests ? |
| 17 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 18 | 193 , that a member state might make the right of its fishing vessels to fish against national quotas subject to those vessels ' having a real economic link with that state , it took care expressly to stipulate that the link had to concern only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries : see p. 222 , para. 27 . |
| 19 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 20 | It seems clear from the overseers ' accounts for the late 18th century that two of the four adult Titford brothers were living as occupants of houses once held as leasehold properties by their better-off ancestors . |
| 21 | " Those early dayes ' refers to a latent discourse referent . |
| 22 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 23 | You compare your performance with other companies ' to identify where and how far you need to catch up , and what practices you need to adopt in order to do so . |
| 24 | Comparing your performance with other companies ' brings you back to the real world . |
| 25 | In October he invented the celebrated image of " Chinghis-Khan with telegraphs ' to buttress the argument that Russia might be turning into a sort of latter-day oriental despotism . |
| 26 | The possibility of the directors ' using their votes to ratify the allotments would require more detail , and legal advice should be sought here . |
| 27 | With respect to the second part of the question , it must be observed , as already indicated above , that the ‘ special jurisdictions ' enumerated in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention constitute derogations from the principle that jurisdiction is vested in the courts of the State where the defendant is domiciled and as such must be interpreted restrictively . |
| 28 | Special recruitment drives have been organised , " model agreements " governing when and under what conditions temporary workers might be used , and " casual workers " charters ' have been drawn up Some unions , notably the electricians , have gone further , establishing local registers of ( otherwise ) unemployed members from which employers have to draw when filling the temporary positions enterprise level agreements have permitted them to create . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs disputed the defendants ' accounts for their costs , charges and expenses and the taxing master directed that there be a trial of preliminary issues . |
| 30 | The Society reached an agreement with most tuna-canners in 1990 , setting up the labelling scheme in return for the canners ' agreeing not to buy tuna that had been caught through drift-netting or " setting-on-dolphins " ( where the mammals are rounded up to catch the schools of tuna which swim beneath them ) . |