Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] of [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 4 | They could have it done professionally , he supposed , wearily imagining a pile of builders ' estimates . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The submission calls for changes that will require all companies to include a statement of directors ' responsibilities in their annual reports . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He went to his desk and produced a sheaf of agents ' reports . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Go home , get a couple of hours ' sleep , clean up and get back here . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A Cleveland council leader criticised new regulations forcing councils to publish a register of members ' Page 4 . |
| 17 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was also palpable relief from the auditing section of the accountancy profession because the report had not favoured an extension of auditors ' liabilities , or recommended a ban on their providing their audit clients with other services . |
| 20 | Mr. McAvoy : If any bid included a reduction of employees ' pension rights , may we have a firm commitment from the Minister that the Government would not give that bid the go-ahead ? |
| 21 | For example a curriculum leader in a small primary school leads a small group to scrutinise a selection of pupils ' work from different year groups to examine progression and continuity and their relation to the National Curriculum a department in a secondary school reviews its curricular provision ; assesses the implications of the National Curriculum for that subject ; analyses policies and practice on pupil assessment ; analyses examination/test results ; reviews pupils ' written work to check on progression and continuity a team considers relations with parents and the wider community the head , a deputy or a senior teacher leads a working party on topics such as cross-curricular issues , curriculum provision as a whole , pupil attendance , school documentation the staff development or INSET co-ordinator leads a working party to review staff development , INSET provision and dissemination , teacher appraisal , care of probationer teachers ( DES 1989e:8 ) . |
| 22 | He 'd managed to grab a couple of hours ' sleep in the cell since they 'd brought him in , but it was scarcely enough to refresh him . |
| 23 | A neglected window frame can reach the point of no return , but it could gain a couple of years ' reprieve by the clever use of a wood repair system . |
| 24 | Next thread a length of florists ' wire through the ribbon and attach to the wreath . |
| 25 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 26 | OUR recent series commemorating the life of comedy king Frankie Howerd brought a flood of readers ' letters . |
| 27 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 28 | She felt tired and wondered if she might manage a couple of hours ' sleep before the train reached London . |
| 29 | " I 'm taking a couple of hours ' kip . |
| 30 | However , one of the chief difficulties in creating an improvement of schools ' practice at grassroots level is that schools , when faced with the challenge presented by self-examination and with a relatively limited knowledge of available strategies and resources , tend to use the process to reinforce existing ( perhaps inadequate ) practices rather than to seek new , more fruitful relationships between curriculum areas or to develop more appropriate teaching methods . |