Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
| 2 | FIG. 1 The spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma can generate a large variety of qualitatively different patterns , depending on the magnitude of the parameter , b , which represents the advantage for defectors . |
| 3 | Even a few hours ' warning can save lives and reduce injuries . |
| 4 | The routine for a haulier offering 30 days ' credit might look like this : |
| 5 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 6 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 7 | Once one budget round is over in March , the chief executive and the chief officers ' group will prepare papers for the policy and resources committee identifying key issues for deeper analysis , possible priorities for the next financial year , and areas for major economies . |
| 8 | An official teachers ' guide may recommend project work and locally based enquiry , whereas the official timetable renders such initiatives impossible by dividing up the day into small fragments . |
| 9 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats ' total would fall from 22 ( including by-elections ) to 16 in the new Parliament . |
| 11 | This extra consumers ' expenditure will give rise to additional income of £40 million in those domestic industries producing the required goods and services . |
| 12 | Basically , however , secure tenants of three years ' standing can buy their houses at discounts ranging from 33 per cent of market price to a maximum of 50 per cent . |
| 13 | Understanding international competitors ' behaviour may depend crucially on understanding the way they finance their business . |
| 14 | If anyone from 10,000 Maniacs ' hierarchy can tell me , please do . |
| 15 | If anyone from 10,000 Maniacs ' hierarchy can tell me , please do . |
| 16 | The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries . |
| 17 | And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history . |
| 18 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 19 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 20 | • Viewers who can pick up BBC 1 Wales ' transmission can see Tony Matthews ' verdict on the chances of Welsh food in the North American arena on ‘ Farming in Wales ’ , Sunday July 28 at 10.00 am , when he comments on the products on display at the Royal Welsh Show Food Hall . |
| 21 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 22 | Work on communications between DEC machines and other manufacturers ' kit will go to internal systems integration teams . |
| 23 | His surgeon has said that two years ' rest may improve the problem significantly . |
| 24 | The idea of a duty solicitor scheme to operate in a busy metropolitan magistrates ' court may seem to many to be a natural consequence of all the other paraphernalia of a socially conscious profession . |
| 25 | If it was to be provided in addition to principal repayments in the revenue account , then local authorities ' capital would increase . |
| 26 | Thus arguments for controlling local authorities ' spending would appear to weigh even less powerfully within monetarist theory than in Keynesian arguments . |
| 27 | Potential Teachers ' Day will take place on 9th July at Queens Road Centre , . |
| 28 | A local boys ' club will collect the £650 prize . |
| 29 | Seven nights ' stay will cost £1,500 . |