Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well does n't it ma , I mean when you do you 'll be away with your different groups ' points and he 'll be |
| 2 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 3 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 4 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 5 | There was the usual pub smell of stale tobacco but the river Thames laps against the old smugglers ' inn and its odours mingle with the rest . |
| 6 | ‘ They do n't consult us on the agenda of the foreign ministers ' meeting and they do n't treat us as equal partners , ’ says a Czech diplomat . |
| 7 | I discovered Buddy Guy , who was playing in Muddy Waters ' band and there was this album called ‘ Folk Festival Of The Blues ’ , which was the first album that Buddy Guy had appeared on . |
| 8 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 9 | The landlord gave six months ' notice and it was held that the notice was good . |
| 10 | My husband who earns good money , gets a pension in 10 years ' time and he says we 'll return then . |
| 11 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware of the continuing violence against rural workers ' leaders and their supporters in Brazil and of the fact that according to recent evidence from the Brazilian Church 's Pastoral Land Commission since 1964 , 1,667 rural workers have been murdered , that there have been 23 trials and only 13 sentences ? |
| 13 | The official National Council resolution ‘ deeply deploring ’ the Anglo Catholics ' language and their audacity in referring to the Reformation as a ‘ flagrant wrong ’ , resolved that such behaviour was inconsistent with ‘ the letter and … spirit of their contract with the State ’ . |
| 14 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 16 | G cells developed in the antrum from 18 weeks ' gestation and their distribution did not differ between the fetal and infant stomachs . |
| 17 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 18 | No weapons were to be seen but a good many shepherds ' crooks and plenty of rough sticks cut from birch or alder . |
| 19 | In West Germany where industry-wide bargaining on a regional basis is the most prevalent , industry-based employers ' associations and their regional sub-groupings are the important bodies which carry out the major bargaining activities . |
| 20 | The Rolling Stones ' guitarist and his five-piece band The X-Pensive Winos play London Town & Country Club on December 17 . |
| 21 | A further interesting finding was that one in three chairmen , one in nine employers ' representatives and one in seven employees ' representatives were also justices of the peace or held similar ‘ judicial or semi-judicial office ’ such as that of coroner . |
| 22 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 23 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 24 | He was wearing an Ultimate Climbers ' Helmet and you will be glad to know that although the helmet sustained considerable damage , Stuart had no head injuries . |
| 25 | Membership of a " terrorist group " was punishable by five years ' imprisonment and it also became a crime to possess " directly or indirectly " written or recorded materials condoning " terrorist " activity . |
| 26 | The incomplete , sluggish and/or mistaken adjustments to changing economic signals that can be found in the Keynesian and monetarist short-run situations are removed from the new classical world by economic agents ' incentives and their ability to use full information to adjust to any new configuration of nominal variables as rapidly as possible . |
| 27 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 28 | Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright . |
| 29 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 30 | Will my right hon. Friend arrange an early debate on education , and especially on the local authorities ' responsibilities and their relationship with Government in terms of school organisation , so that I may highlight the need for an early decision on proposals to reorganise schools in Ealing , where parents , teachers and children will be greatly affected by those decisions ? |