Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] ' [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was small , but adequate for the Gormans ' needs and comforts , built in the Midland Railway 's style of architecture having a pantile roof and very solidly constructed of red brick . |
2 | Aficionados of art and antiques will make a bee-line for the towns ' museums and art galleries . |
3 | My wife acted as housekeeper for the officers ' houses and Mrs Weaverhurst , the headmistress , took charge of St Michael 's . |
4 | That force , unlike those vortices , was a well-evidenced explanation for the planets ' orbits because , the argument went , the orbits themselves were not the sole evidence for its existence . |
5 | Currently , a Home Office grant pays for the schemes ' managers and co-ordinators . |
6 | Yes , for the farmers ' daughters and |
7 | The next day , while we were exercising , Brian kept watch under the door for the guards ' feet as I tapped out , ‘ We are Brian Keenan and John McCarthy . |
8 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
9 | There are also various independent support groups , such as the Prisoners ' Wives and Families Society . |
10 | In addition to showing simply that the factors occurred together , Weber was also able to show that there was an understandable connection between the Calvinists ' beliefs and their actions . |
11 | That capital market imperfections might create discrepancies between share price and underlying value is a significant point , however , because it indicates a possible divergence between the shareholders ' interests and the general interest in economic efficiency in the long term . |
12 | They vary a good deal depending on the distance between the critics ' positions and outlooks and Barth 's own . |
13 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
14 | When fees are dependent on work measurement , the ‘ cut off ’ timing between the surveyors ' estimates and the costing systems must be managed with great care if seriously misleading management information is to be avoided . |
15 | During their voyage a narrative is assembled through a series of flashbacks which reveal a proliferation of connections between the protagonists ' families and contemporary political events . |
16 | Many delegates have talked about Europe this week , about the E C , about the directors ' laws and regulations come out of it . |
17 | Phonogram are offering a reward of sorts for info about the shirts ' whereabouts and anyone who 's got something to say should give the boys in blue at Belgrade Road station a call on 021 626 4010 . |
18 | The intervention of the audience is through the communicators ' perceptions and images of the unknown audience . |
19 | Next night the mice came again , and gnawed through the soldiers ' belts and sword-straps , so they had no means of keeping their swords and their breeches on . |
20 | The social world must be seen through the actors ' eyes because it depends on how they see it and it works in whatever way social capacities are exercised . |
21 | A message of support from Thatcher for the Conservative candidate was delivered through the voters ' letter-boxes and several leading Tories , including Party Chairman Kenneth Baker , visited the constituency to support the election campaign . |
22 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
23 | I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes ' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles . |
24 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
25 | A compulsive polo watcher , he was familiar with many of the O'Briens ' horses and would probably have to rearrange the list when he saw which ones they were playing . |
26 | Their motions for judicial review of the governors ' decisions and dismissal of appeals were allowed by Simon Brown J. |
27 | In principle , however , the public law nature of the SROs ' rules and the fact that they operate in an integrated way with the SIB 's rules should mean that a court is able to take the same approach to the interpretation of both the SROs ' and the SIB 's rules . |
28 | That the windscreen wipers started to work can properly be said to have been caused by a set of things including the state of the wipers ' mountings and the smooth surface of the windscreen as well as the switch 's being flipped . |
29 | The court was quiet except for the scratching of the clerks ' quills as they sat around their green baize-topped table . |
30 | Hooper , chosen ahead of David James because of his experience , could not be faulted for either of the Russians ' goals and desperately wants a chance to make the Anfield number one shirt his own . |