Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data relating to the patients ' dietary habits were collected after endoscopically confirmed ulcer healing in 985 patients to assess their habitual intake in relation to their normal physical activity , in the absence of active ulceration . |
| 2 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 3 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 4 | In schools belonging to the Girls ' Schools Association , the average annual fees were 6300 for boarders , and 3300 for day pupils ( ISIS , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 6 | With the blue and white Nicaraguan flag fluttering amid the Sandinistas ' red and black banners , a jeep-borne President Daniel Ortega led an anarchic procession to the accompaniment of bands , singers , dancers , and the alarmed squeals of a tethered pig . |
| 7 | With the blue and white Nicaraguan flag fluttering amid the Sandinistas ' red and black banners , a jeep-borne President Daniel Ortega led an anarchic procession to the accompaniment of bands , singers , dancers , and the alarmed squeals of a tethered pig . |
| 8 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
| 9 | Goram 's prodigious clearance sent McCoist racing into the Belgians ' box , where he looked to be impeded . |
| 10 | Through his controlling stake in the Daily Mail & General Trust , Rothermere is enjoying the benefits of increased profitability resulting from the papers ' lower cost base . |
| 11 | The unsatisfactory state of the law resulting from the Infants ' Relief Act 1874 has now been remedied by the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 , which is based upon recommendations of the Law Commission . |
| 12 | So , it 's stuck with defending this form of public housing in the face of mass dissidence within the working class itself , not so much with the principle of council housing as the tenants ' lack of control over design and management . |
| 13 | Like a world war beginning from a lovers ' quarrel |
| 14 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |
| 15 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 16 | It is also helpful if the managers ' shares carry rights which , initially , are less beneficial than the rights attaching to the institutions ' shares but which , in accordance with pre-determined ratchet formulae in the Articles of Newco , can increase in value ( as a result of profitability targets being met ) at a rate faster than can the institutions ' shares . |
| 17 | He did n't tell himself that since he was no longer on spelling terms with himself he just obeyed an order and rummaged through the man 's pockets as if he were checking a suit going to the cleaners ' . |
| 18 | In the middle of the crowd — people arriving , people leaving , lost children , tannoy announcements , people queueing at the cashiers ' grilles , checking the airport shops , lugging their cases into the restaurants … in the middle of all that , Culley looked for someone special . |
| 19 | In the event of a change in the standard terms applying to the Insurers ' usual forms of Household Buildings insurances the Society will be notified and this notice will be deemed to be sufficient notification in respect of all such policies as may be subject to this Agreement . |
| 20 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 21 | There was a small library belonging to the Freemasons ' Lodge in Bowmore but this has been disposed of ; and possibly other organisations had small collections of specialist books . |
| 22 | The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits . |
| 23 | The division dealing with the directors ' Schedule E affairs is therefore the relevant division for the appeal — with one very important proviso . |
| 24 | And while there was some variation depending on the students ' IT subject area , other than in the still numerically small area of IKBS/MMI/AI , in no other subject did the proportion of SERC-funded students seeking employment fall below one quarter . |
| 25 | However , the questions and answers relating to the officers ' comments on what they had observed during surveillance might well have been edited out . |
| 26 | One day a member of staff found a man smoking in the girls ' dining room . |
| 27 | Impervious to the babble of conversation and the pop music blaring from the dancers ' dressing room , I stick the exaggerated lashes in place , put on my spectacular Medusa-like crown and walk through the Green Room to the coffee-making area . |
| 28 | On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea . |
| 29 | It came through the door leading to the boarders ' annexe . |
| 30 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |