Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock . |
| 2 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 3 | They chose the teenagers and topics after group discussions at 26 schools in northern England , firstly speaking to children from the programme 's target age-range ( the 11-13s ) to find out what interested them then they met teenagers from the presenters ' target age range ( 1416 ) to find out more ideas for topics and to choose the reporters . |
| 4 | When civil war broke out in Ireland she became president of the Women 's Prisoners ' Defence League . |
| 5 | , George Robert ( 1847–1922 ) , writer , was born at 8 Newton Terrace , Kennington , London , 2 September 1847 , the eldest of the six children of George Sims , wine merchant , cabinet manufacturer , and plate-glass factor , and his wife Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson , who became president of the Women 's Provident League . |
| 6 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 7 | Excavation of one tomb has also shed light on the Egyptians ' sexual mores . |
| 8 | , Frances Mary ( 1827–1894 ) , educator and founding figure in the girls ' public day-school movement in England , was born in London 16 August 1827 , the eldest of ten children ( of whom she and four brothers were survivors ) of Robert William Buss , painter and etcher , and his wife Frances Fleetwood . |
| 9 | Must buy calendars for the kids ' work . |
| 10 | the accountant is required to extract balances on the clients ' ledger accounts at two or more dates — now at least three months apart — and compare the total liabilities to clients with the cash book balance on the client account , and reconcile the cash book balance with the client account balance as confirmed directly to the accountant by the bank or building society ; |
| 11 | UN officials had reportedly been negotiating with Somali clan leaders to obtain approval for the troops ' dispatch . |
| 12 | Another way of gaining insight into the students ' predicament is to analyse how we ourselves ( native and non-native speaker ) set about tackling pieces of English discourse which pose comprehension problems for us . |
| 13 | We have just heard that Bob Miller [ currently number one is the Chief Executive 's award scheme ] , has gained further business to provide plants to the surveyors ' temporary offices . |
| 14 | The inclusion on the album of two seven-minute songs amongst the other three-minute pop nuggets point to The Stairs ' keenness to gravitate from 1965 towards 1969 . |
| 15 | He was in a position in which he would have every opportunity of gaining knowledge of the customers ' business and influence over the customers ' . |
| 16 | Contexts involve characters of the pupils ' own ages and subjects which are relevant to their lives . |
| 17 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
| 18 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
| 19 | I found Bunny in the girls ' kitchen the next morning trying to find something to eat that was n't raw carrot , muesli or Ryvita and something to drink other than herbal tea . |
| 20 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 21 | I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding . |
| 22 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 23 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 24 | Then they make their ale from what they have collected , and those who do not come there to drink and do not give money at the foresters ' will are sorely punished at their pleas for dead wood , although the King has no demesne ; nor does anyone dare to brew when the foresters brew , or to sell ale so long as the foresters have any kind of ale to sell ; and this every forester does year by year to the great grievance of the country . |
| 25 | For many programmers , this is their first taste of trying to sell houses in a buyers ' market , of static wages and of finding that demand for their skills no longer outstrips supply . |
| 26 | There would probably be no need to transfer substantial assets of the business into the new company and the appropriate step might be to allocate part of the solicitors ' clientele to the company partner to establish it as having a regular practice . |
| 27 | It may appear that putting this strategy into practice will take more time than the conventional practice of writing words in the children 's own spelling books . |
| 28 | What this operation can do is to cause havoc with a women 's sexuality , often provoking the very opposite to what was intended . |
| 29 | A Japanese government spokesman claimed that post mortems had revealed parasites in the animals ' ears which may have resulted in their having lost their sense of direction . |
| 30 | With the best nine scores counting , Aberdeen amassed 272pts to the visitors ' 238pts . |