Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their passion for raiding has declined in recent years , but in most other respects their lifestyles have changed little in centuries , and the rugs they make today remain faithful to their ancestors ' methods of weaving and repertoire of designs . |
| 2 | Feminist psychology is becoming conscious of its theories ' unadventurousness , their distance from other feminist debates , and the way their focus on individual subjects forces them to neglect social relations . |
| 3 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 4 | To better understand and service your needs , we make a special effort to answer all of our customers ' questions and to help them with any technical problems that may be related to MiLAN products . |
| 5 | It managed to avoid some of its rivals ' mistakes . |
| 6 | He is terrified that Keith is ‘ going the same way as Andrew ’ and feels frustrated and emasculated , because he can not control either of his sons ' behaviour . |
| 7 | He is terrified that Keith is ‘ going the same way as Andrew ’ and feels frustrated and emasculated , because he can not control either of his sons ' behaviour . |
| 8 | Tackle some of your critics ' repeated messages by doing the following exercise : |
| 9 | Others overlook this opportunity to share their interests with parents and do n't even seem aware of their parents ' need for mental and emotional stimulus . |
| 10 | Some families congregated weekly at their grandparents ' home for music . |
| 11 | Colonies were very handy bargaining counters if a state wanted to concede something less important than territory in Europe , but it was hard to imagine that any country would want to take all of its rivals ' imperial possessions . |
| 12 | The imagination trembles at some of these ideas — will a profession 's ruling body really come clean about its members ' income ? — but no suggestion , on this subject , should be dismissed out of hand . |
| 13 | the ARC 's decision to cut some of its institutes ' affiliation with universities , allegedly in order to discourage ‘ ivory-tower ’ research , and |
| 14 | Authors should never be held responsible for their publishers ' blurbs , and so one is spared the embarrassment of assessing the claim that Hugh Trevor-Roper is ‘ Britain 's greatest living historian ’ . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is fair to report that , once more , we have pleased with our pupils ' performance . |
| 16 | In societies close to subsistence levels , there may be relatively little outside the ‘ world of work ’ , which occupies most of their individuals ' time and energy . |