Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | This service is provided through IRPC by a legal expenses insurance policy which we have taken out for each of our customers ' benefit . |
| 2 | The contrast between increased industrial output and deteriorating social and economic conditions sharpened their political consciousness and strengthened support for the clandestine labour movement , especially among the younger workers , who had not experienced the Civil War and did not have the " peace at any price " outlook of some of their parents ' generation . |
| 3 | Section 324 specifies that directors must disclose their shareholdings in the company in question and its related companies , while s.325 makes it obligatory for the company to keep a record of all of its directors ' interests . |
| 4 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 5 | Their 10-year-old daughter , Jessica , who is likely to be seen with her head buried in The Beano or a Roald Dahl novel , has provided the inspiration for many of her parents ' books . |
| 6 | The attitude of men — not just the middle-aged grey-suits at the top but increasingly of young grey-suits who put their career above that of their partners ' — came in for some stick . |
| 7 | Eventually a rumour began to go around that I was having an affair with one of my friends ' husband . |
| 8 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 9 | Robert had once put his ear to the door during one of his colleagues ' classes and had been able to hear nothing from Class 2 but an eery silence . |
| 10 | Two thirds of teachers claim to have contributed directly to some of their schools ' report , a further quarter have contributed to most of it and 7 per cent to all of it . |
| 11 | I am a gigging guitarist living in Holland , and I would like to reflect on some of your readers ' comments . |
| 12 | In that case the employees , who were warehousemen employed by a company which supplied nuts and bolts , wrote to ten of their employers ' suppliers informing them that they intended to start up in business on their own trading in nuts and bolts , and asking for details of their products . |
| 13 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 14 | He was a taciturn , curiously detached individual who seemed happy to turn a blind eye to any of his tenants ' ’ goings-on' , as Eleanor called them . |
| 15 | Yesterday she went to several of her neighbours ' houses to ask if anyone had seen the incident or knew who was behind it . |
| 16 | Jennie recognized that the world could be at any of her Girls ' feet but she also understood that sometimes the youngsters were too scared to travel abroad . |