Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government textbooks continue to depict women in the caring roles ' in society and a study carried out in Central American schools clearly showed that a " lack of aspiration " among young women is related to the limited employment possibilities open to them . |
| 2 | It was suggested that " such units should be part of the psychiatric service and would compare with continuing care units ' of the geriatric service . " |
| 3 | At a mid-point in the novel there occurs McClintoch 's complaint that people are divided into the ‘ attractive ’ and the ‘ unattractive ’ , rather as , according to Disraeli , as Graham duly notes , Victorian England was divided into the two nations ' of rich and poor . |
| 4 | Also " the Early Iron Age is credited , broadly speaking , with the numerous duns ' around the coasts and the hill fortifications . |
| 5 | In particular , the evidence suggests more numerous and more significant substantial affinities , and a dearth of the close but extensive relationships ( integral affinities ) which are usually indicative of " schools ' of mosaicists . |
| 6 | The combination of the narrator 's voice with features associated with the characters ' thought patterns may be compared to the use of free indirect thought in fictions in which the " voices ' of narrator and characters are blended , sometimes almost inextricably . |
| 7 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 8 | Such a child might be subject to a rehabilitation period of ten years — the same period as for an adult sentenced to from six months ' to thirty months ' imprisonment , the longest period covered by the Act . |
| 9 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 10 | Economists are held to treat one month 's figures as a freak , two months ' as a fact and three months ' as a trend . |
| 11 | There is no long term advantage of three months ' over one month 's treatment . |
| 12 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 13 | The maximum loan to property value is 85 per cent , the arrangement fee is £295 and the early redemption penalty is nine months ' interest in years one to three , six months ' in year four and four months ' in the final year . |
| 14 | Using this formula , the Department of the Environment issues guidelines ' on local authorities ' rent levels , and since levels are meant to relate to local house prices , they will vary considerably from one part of the country to another . |
| 15 | Polisario also claimed success in a Nov. 16 attack on the region between Mgala and Guelta Zamour , during which it claimed to have inflicted " significant human and material losses ' on the enemy . |
| 16 | The ACDA text reported that the main areas of continuing disagreement between the negotiating teams consisted of ( i ) definitions of and counting rules covering air-launched cruise missiles ( ALCMs ) : the USA wished only to include nuclear-armed missiles with a range in excess of 1,500 km with the assumption that a specified average number of missiles be attributed to each bomber , while the Soviet Union included " dual-capable " ( conventional/nuclear ) missiles with a range in excess of 600 km with the assumption that the maximum number of missiles be attributed to each type of bomber ; ( ii ) whether submarine-launched cruise missiles ( SLCMs ) should be limited under START ( or under a separate agreement , as had been suggested by the USA ) and if so whether on-site SLCM verification procedures should be deployed ( as the Soviet Union was suggesting ) or " non-binding declarations ' of numbers be issued ( as proposed by the USA ) ; and ( iii ) a " ban on the production , flight testing or modernization " of existing types of heavy ICBMs ( suggested by the USA ) , although a ban on new missile development was agreed , as were warhead and missile sub-limits in this category . |
| 17 | So the quiet , reserved , studious girl falls " head over heels ' in love with the most outrageous extrovert in the year ! |
| 18 | Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative . |
| 19 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 20 | The Isley Brothers ' Behind The Painted Smile — not that there is anything behind mine . |
| 21 | However , these largely straightforward patterns of cohesion were offset by a number of " anomalies ' in the original . |
| 22 | A detailed comparison should make it possible to filter out the effects of intervening variables ' from more ‘ fundamental ’ determinants of variations in the ‘ dependent variables ’ . |
| 23 | This seems to happen retrospectively , for it is the simple past tense of 'shin " d " which enables us to read the deixis of " those early dayes ' in a particular way , in direct relation to 'shin " d " . |
| 24 | Heads ' salaries range from 18,900 to 40,002 ; deputy heads ' from 18,300 to 29,100 . |
| 25 | Fortunately , he had the luck and nearly always won , so he bought McLaughlin 's old newsagents ' in Hilltown as a front for his ‘ line ’ . |
| 26 | The observation required to give empirical " flesh " to the logical " bones ' of the possibility just outlined would be that of observing no speech disturbance with injection on either side . |
| 27 | It is incomplete and it has also no structural significance although it is tempting to describe for example the " springs ' in terms of contractile polymer chains ( entropy springs ) and the " dash-pots ' as descriptive of the motion of chains through holes or barriers to motion caused by adjacent chains . |
| 28 | Certain Western journalists claimed on the basis of Soviet sources that ‘ Moscow would much prefer a negotiated settlement which would involve the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan along neutral lines ' to a large increase in Soviet troops deployed in Afghanistan . |
| 29 | You may experience some symptoms or " side effects ' from the foods under test . |
| 30 | Even the trained and qualified social worker will often admit — or insist — that he or she is out of depth in dealing with the sexual elements ' of a case , while the unqualified social worker is left to struggle with them as well as possible . |