Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both literary and non-literary writing will often develop from the interaction between the pupils ' own insights and what they have read ( or heard read ) in the classroom . |
| 2 | The problems of temperature control are a result of the engineers ' own success . |
| 3 | The accident began with an experiment , to see if power could be supplied to the reactors ' cooling pumps using only the momentum of the stations ' own turbines . |
| 4 | The unions have steadfastly tried to improve the lot of their members , often , it sometimes seems , at the expense of the workers ' own industries . |
| 5 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 6 | The departure of a ‘ special ’ child may be particularly problematic because he or she may have invoked part of the parents ' own history , or because the child performed a vital role in the family such as ‘ go-between ’ or communicator . |
| 7 | This would take pedagogic advantage of the learners ' own experience , and would help to ensure that the tasks were independently purposeful — a crucial design feature if the tasks are to induce language processing consistent with natural use . |
| 8 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
| 9 | The fact that the machines made by Amstrad had other legitimate uses , such as making copies of the purchasers ' own music or of works not protected by copyright , was important , even though it was obvious that the largest use would involve copyright infringement . |
| 10 | The plaintiff must be the ‘ target ’ of the combination but if he is , on this view , the advancement of the defendants ' own interests does not justify the use of unlawful means . |
| 11 | Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making . |
| 12 | Here they are directed at the benefit of the teachers ' own understanding of their craft . |
| 13 | Authenticity of the learners ' own interpretations of such texts . |
| 14 | Through Brian Way 's influence a new kind of college course was emerging that saw drama as the basis for the students ' own personal development . |
| 15 | For lack of sufficient central funds the rudimentary basis of a welfare state was being set up through contributions from the workers ' own meagre wages . |
| 16 | The length of the period of cultivation in this bush/fallow cycle depended on the quality of the soils , the requirement of the crops for nutrients , and on whether fertility was supplemented by cattle manure from the farmers ' own livestock . |
| 17 | This may include lecture preparation , presentation , research for a publication or article in the members ' own name or research for a new piece of work to be undertaken . |
| 18 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 19 | Having identified the academic curriculum with competitive examinations and the status-seeking of the middle classes , Searle excludes all works of art from the classroom except the pupils ' own creations and those which reflect their lives . |
| 20 | Verbal narrative , as distinct from narrative which includes an element of performance and visual images , has two basic modes of representation : the report of characters ' actions by a narrator , and the presentation of the characters ' own speech in dialogue . |
| 21 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 22 | Leaving this central issue to one side for the moment , we should add here that there are major critiques which can be made of Marxist theories , critiques on the theories ' own terms . |
| 23 | The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the specific problems and prospects of the churches ' own media need to be studied in greater depth . |
| 25 | Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible . |
| 26 | Contexts involve characters of the pupils ' own ages and subjects which are relevant to their lives . |
| 27 | But this , Taylor and Cameron argue , " rather than offering the analyst direct access to the participants ' own publically displayed identification of units and rules , only postpones the task to a subsequent turn " ( p. 121 ) . |
| 28 | Using local sources in this way the history teacher was able to relate the particular history topic to the pupils ' own locality and so to their own experience . |
| 29 | Such a change of tactics in the gilt-edged market did not preclude intervention , but such intervention would be in accordance with the authorities ' own requirements rather than in response to particular market changes . |
| 30 | No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment . |