Example sentences of "[noun] 's [coord] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everything in the CNAA 's and the colleges ' procedure was conducive to innovation , but the ripple effect from groups of staff having ‘ to think out their own courses ’ was probably one of the most immediate invitations to innovation in the early years of the CNAA . |
| 2 | When confronted with the head 's and the governors ' account of the financial and other resources with which to achieve its implementation , few members of staff would feel able to contribute to the debate . |
| 3 | Their accounts are primarily the taxman 's and the banks ' business . |
| 4 | This quest for political certainties leads to a mismatch between the researcher 's and the interviewees ' agenda . |
| 5 | Yet in one sense the circumstances of any and every poem are ‘ special ’ ; and at any rate all these instances show that , in his own writing as in the writing of others , Pound was prepared to recognize circumstances which justified departing very far indeed from Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction , indeed flying in the face of them . |
| 6 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |