Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 2 | She is also to serve three years ' probation and do community service at Hale House in Harlem . |
| 3 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 4 | These freight forwarders frequently act either as carriers in their own right when they consolidate multiple shippers ' cargo and hire space on the vessel or vessels involved in the maritime leg of the journey . |
| 5 | She was given three years ' supervision and a five-year driving ban . |
| 6 | Ann-Marie was given three years ' supervision and and banned from driving for five years . |
| 7 | Thus , if the total award is large enough ( say , reflecting three years ' employment and loss of salary and contract benefits for that length of time ) , an ex gratia payment will not reduce your former employer 's legal liability towards you at all . |
| 8 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 9 | She confirmed other insiders ' information that Bryan became Fergie 's boyfriend last November . |
| 10 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 11 | Nurse Dawn Anderson , 24 , and her boyfriend Maldin Thain , 25 — both from Leeds — are being held in cells at Ceuta , a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast , and could face eight years ' jail if convicted . |
| 12 | The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years ' work and up to 6000 people . |
| 13 | Incentives and fees for service will be needed to reduce private doctors ' autonomy and increase their accountability to the state . |
| 14 | In some SSDs , relations with the police are dire , joint training is in tatters , and little is being done to build social workers ' confidence and skills are growing , and successful prosecutions have been achieved using the memorandum . |
| 15 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 16 | But , as we have seen , regarding authentic Producers ' Co-operation as ‘ the rival doctrine ’ the Consumers ' Movement did little then to help , and so contributed to the inertia against which the industrial co-operative form has had to contend . |
| 17 | Last night , United announced that Edwards was taking leading counsels ' advice as to the validity of his agreement with Knighton . |
| 18 | Examples are searching for all occurrences of a given pattern or even comparing two students ' work where copying is suspected . |
| 19 | They then took two weeks ' holiday and , on their return , gave one week 's notice and left when this notice period expired . |
| 20 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 21 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 22 | The legislation allowed the government to confiscate white farmers ' land and to pay compensation at a price of its own choosing , without being subject to legal challenge by the owner of the land . |
| 23 | The campaign will aim at increasing elderly passengers ' assertiveness and heightening their own and others ' awareness of their vulnerabilities . |
| 24 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 25 | The offer means a couple can get four days ' bed and breakfast at the Stakis Newbury hotel for £108 . |
| 26 | The singer , who was not in court , was given two years ' probation and ordered to donate £30,000 to five local community projects by St Louis County Circuit Judge Ellis Gregory . |
| 27 | Arriving in tltis self-proclaimed cultural centre of Australia , we had 30 minutes ' stopover while the big Australian National Railway diesels were uncoupled and a new pair attached for the journey to New South Wales . |
| 28 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 29 | He had two days ' respite before Bella delivered her deathblows . |
| 30 | Instead of wasteful duplication of effort , these bodies have now created a ‘ Link ’ organisation so that they can share information and ideas , reinforce each others ' action and , where possible , speak with one voice on matters of common concern . |