Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares and warrants should be reported as part of shareholders ' funds . |
| 2 | However , my master plan is invariably dropped in favour of readers ' questions . |
| 3 | Underlying this debate has been a concern that ‘ raw ’ examination results might be inappropriately interpreted as measures of schools ' effectiveness . |
| 4 | The starting point of the research is the fact that very little formal school derived knowledge may be used in discussion of pupils ' reactions to scientific issues in the public domain . |
| 5 | The widespread influence of Ribble , Bowlby and Spitz , although it was supported by new , more permissive baby books such as Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care ( 1946 ) , can not be entirely explained in terms of parents ' reaction against the rigours of aseptic mothercraft . |
| 6 | Many non-neutral uses of gender-neutral words ( like citizen ) can not be explained in terms of speakers ' commonsense assumptions that men do certain things and women other things . |
| 7 | Such an aggregate will only equal the value of total output if those goods which are produced but not sold are also included — this item , which is called ‘ net changes in stocks and work in progress ’ , is normally counted as part of firms ' investment spending ( which is logical since such goods are for future rather than current consumption ) . |
| 8 | That decline will not be arrested by charters of citizens ' rights in those services , desirable though some aspects of those may be . |
| 9 | Other research , by child psychologist Dorothy Cohen , found that extensive TV viewing led to atrophy of childrens ' imaginations . |
| 10 | He said the flights amounted to £6,000 of taxpayers ' money : ‘ It 's time they paid the money back . ’ |
| 11 | An educational Bill of Rights would not stand in place of students ' legal entitlements ; students would , as now , still have the right to pursue a legal claim if they felt themselves to be the victim of an in justice . |
| 12 | It is also undoubtedly useful for teachers to be able to refer to features of pupils ' work when they are correcting it or trying to help pupils in some way . |