Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher in Example 3 provided a box of dolls ' clothes of different sizes and designs . |
| 2 | The statements suggest that annual reports of plcs and large private companies should include a statement about directors ' responsibilities , acknowledging the role directors ' play in the preparation of the financial statements , and their responsibilities for the decision on whether a going concern basis is appropriate , and for ensuring that adequate financial controls are in place . |
| 3 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 4 | The aim was to monitor only those outpatient referrals which incurred a charge against fundholders ' budgets and the corresponding referrals in the control practices . |
| 5 | On April 29 , JS sponsored a lunch at Stationers ' Hall in the City of London held to honour the person identified by the horticultural industry as having made the biggest contribution to commercial horticulture in 1992 . |
| 6 | For free copies of Travellers ' Diarrhoea and Avoiding Viral Hepatitis , send an sae to Travellers ' Advice , BDF , 3 , St Andrews Place , London . |
| 7 | This involves gaining an idea of villagers ' senses of their past and future fates , their senses of history , and their identities with others sharing or differences from those not sharing their fates . |
| 8 | The expectation is that by increasing patient participation in this way the project will achieve a reduction in patients ' forgetting and misunderstanding of instructions and advice , and a reduction in the number of questions which occur to patients after their consultation . |
| 9 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 10 | They could have it done professionally , he supposed , wearily imagining a pile of builders ' estimates . |
| 11 | The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks . |
| 12 | The government banks with the Bank of England , therefore the daily flows of funds between the private and public sectors are reflected in equal but opposite changes in two of the Bank 's liabilities , a flow towards the government , for example , causing a fall in bankers ' deposits and a matching rise in public deposits . |
| 13 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that attainment targets may be grouped into ‘ profile components ’ for the purposes of reporting achievements , teachers are expected to ‘ keep a record of pupils ' progress in relation to each attainment target ’ , a particularly onerous requirement . |
| 15 | Besides them epigraphy records a number of oculists ' stamps from Bath , Kenchester ( two examples ) and Sandy , each bearing the name of the individual concerned alongside his patent remedies for treating opthalmic disorders . |
| 16 | This involves a difference in teachers ' perception of themselves and of other professionals . |
| 17 | The Danish parliament on June 17 passed a law on patients ' records , which from January , 1994 , will give every citizen the right to access their medical records . |
| 18 | The Financial Times , which accorded WHS ' ‘ poor figures ’ only three short paragraphs , nevertheless managed to include a mention of analysts ' concern at the decline in margins and disappointments at the tone of the post-results meeting . |
| 19 | The submission calls for changes that will require all companies to include a statement of directors ' responsibilities in their annual reports . |
| 20 | Background music made a change from bookies ' cries . |
| 21 | You can stand back in practical terms , too — suggesting a couple of hours ' break for people to clear their heads , or that you finish early in order for people to think over proposals and reconvene in the morning . |
| 22 | The thunder with which this was greeted from the senior judiciary — every one a former barrister — forced the Lord Chancellor to produce his fudge : separate systems of accreditation with four senior judges given a veto over solicitors ' rights . |
| 23 | He went to his desk and produced a sheaf of agents ' reports . |
| 24 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 25 | It will be used by owners , and other users for making decisions in respect of continued investment in that enterprise and help them to form a judgement of managers ' performance etc . |
| 26 | Go home , get a couple of hours ' sleep , clean up and get back here . |
| 27 | So if the EEC reduced subsidies on crops which now get a lot of taxpayers ' money , like wheat , it could increase them — albeit not by so much — on other products , like non-grain animal feeds . |
| 28 | A Cleveland council leader criticised new regulations forcing councils to publish a register of members ' Page 4 . |
| 29 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 30 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |