Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No when used to get music for the Women 's Own choir to do for Mothering Sunday , she used to say keep quiet where you got the copy from . |
| 2 | This suggests that men are more cruel than women towards cats , but such an interpretation assumes that cats can distinguish between deliberate cruelty and pain inflicted for the animals ' own good . |
| 3 | Some will be to provoke interest and curiosity , others will be to reinforce learning , still others will be for extension work and most importantly some areas will be for the pupils ' own work which will serve as a major focus of attention . |
| 4 | Suggestions for the children 's own work , as well as the simple ones of drawing , model-making , painting , writing and drama , included : |
| 5 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 6 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now the trick films came particularly out of the pioneers ' own attitude to their apparatus . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 12 | These claims are made in the context of attempts to justify expenditure on western education systems and to represent the ideals of the writers ' own culture as ‘ universal ’ . |
| 13 | The problems of temperature control are a result of the engineers ' own success . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The method of reporting findings will be of the students ' own choice . |
| 16 | Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making . |
| 17 | Here they are directed at the benefit of the teachers ' own understanding of their craft . |
| 18 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 19 | to give examples of the children 's own work as cumulative examples of achievements |
| 20 | For instance , first-school classrooms with colourful montages of the children 's own work and collections of objects that are interesting to touch and fun to look at provide a stimulating background for pupils whether they have defective vision or not . |
| 21 | These orthographic conventions should be taught in the context of the children 's own writing and should always be related to their function of making the writer 's meaning clear to the reader . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood . |
| 24 | According to an NFU spokesman , the legislation reflects local bye-laws and incorporates much of the unions ' own code of practice , which until now have together governed straw and stubble burning . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 27 | The resulting courses were spread over eighteen three-quarter-hour or twelve one-hour periods ; they began with an introductory review of the college library , its purpose , stock , arrangement and services , including standard reference books , and then proceeded through the detailed study of a specialist literature , in a field closely integrated with the students ' own subject courses . |
| 28 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 29 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 30 | We can in fact penetrate beyond the officialese of the correspondents , thanks to the investigations conducted by R. Shafir at this time into the peasants ' own view of the press . |