Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we say a food contains so many " calories ' we really mean kilo-calories or thousand calories . |
| 2 | Parents ' what ? |
| 3 | Last-minute learning is often poorly absorbed and " blocks ' your memory . |
| 4 | Also , in October 1949 , the Communists ' who had been fighting in the Greek Civil War , ceased fighting . |
| 5 | There was plenty of material to work from : Latin was compulsory at Plumford Grammar School ; the English master had drummed into their memories large sections of Macaulay 's Lays of Ancient Rome ; they had read novels with a Roman background , like Rosemary Sutcliff 's Eagle of the Ninth and Robert Graves ' I , Claudius ; and they could plunder Hubert Molland 's classical library for further information as the need arose . |
| 6 | The librarian has developed some excellent information skills software packages ' which are used in operation with other school staff on a variety of projects . |
| 7 | Interesting that the offices of Yeo Davis should be very much less at the leading edge of modern design than the solicitors ' which they had just seen , McLeish thought , and murmured as much to Catherine Crane , who laughed . |
| 8 | Under the heading ‘ Money-Lenders ’ Baits ' he showed his readers how the cormorants attempted to lure them into their net — advertisements from loan merchants hiding behind grand names like The Clerical and Medical Bank , in all parts of Britain , none of whom saw fit to mention the rates of interest they would charge , and some specifying Without Sureties . |
| 9 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 10 | Okay , welcome to 'Influencing Skills ' we we always do the fancy bits of , erm , whatever , I 'll change the words this time , because I 'm getting a bit bored with the way we normally do it , name . |
| 11 | Laver ( 1991 ) describes these as " the way in which the speaker 'sets ' his muscular vocal apparatus for speaking " . |
| 12 | He declared that the sane and sound advocacy of social democracy by the SDP would outlast all the various actionist ‘ will o ’ the wisps ' which , while apparently indicating easy roads to the promised land of social and economic emancipation , finally led to anarchical swamps and morasses ( SE 6 August 21 . ) . |
| 13 | Although their cars were not as good as the Germans ' he drove brilliantly and beat the Mercedes and Auto Unions at the Nurburgring in 1935 to win the German Grand Prix . |
| 14 | " These anti-partisan units are without exception completely compromised by open collaboration with the Germans ' he wrote , but he recommended that in view of the complexity of the situation they should not be " handed over to the Yugoslav army " but " should be disarmed and placed in refugee camps ! |
| 15 | By –passengers ' she meant those who travelled steerage . |
| 16 | Among the prizes are 100 copies of Now 22 , a double LP compilation packed with this year 's biggest hits — including Erasure 's Take A Chance On Me , Jimmy Nail 's Ai n't No Doubt , the Utah Saints ' Something Good , the Orb 's Blue Room and the Cure 's Friday I 'm In Love . |
| 17 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 18 | We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees , so at some point in either our ancestry or chimps ' there must have been a change in chromosome number . |
| 19 | But , in terms of the the actual vision screening itself erm , we 've iden , those people who 've been identified as V D U , V D U users ' we 've had about five hundred and fifty replies to that , from the V D U , V D U , users ' . |
| 20 | So , of the er , er yeah , of the people who were identified as being users ' , V D U users ' we 've had about eight percent of the replies have actually been returned , so we are chasing some . |
| 21 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
| 22 | The imperative 'need to find regularities ' which Popper speaks of , coupled with Bartlett 's ‘ effort after meaning ’ , constitute a powerful expectation in human beings that what is said or written will make sense in the context in which it appears . |
| 23 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 24 | She goes " get me a piece of waata " like that — but she jus ' makes me laugh … an' she speaks so fas ' she comes from Barbados she 's Barbadian , my dad 's Trinidadian . |
| 25 | He clearly enjoyed the vicarious thrill of reading about grisly murders and thoroughly enjoyed The Murderers ' Who 's Who . |
| 26 | Patients in psychiatric and mental handicap hospitals were frequently cared for by " nurses ' who had no training , some of whom did not even speak English . |
| 27 | To date , there are no acknowledged " systems ' which can be used reliably to determine skill mix . |
| 28 | Most Christians today believe that Jesus feeds ' his people in the Eucharistic celebration ( The feeding of the 5000 ) . |
| 29 | Husameddin claims that one Shuja al-Din Ilyas Celebi , Hoca to the sultan , had become ( was ? ) a highly-regarded mufti in Edirne in 831/1427–8 , " historical proofs ' which Husameddin has chanced upon describing him as One finds also both in the biographical dictionaries and in the chronicles instances of the use of this early period . |