Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby .
2 When the restriction was lifted from the Senior Chief Inspector 's annual report about examining the effect on maintained schools of local authorities ' financial and finance-linked resources , it became a report about national quality .
3 It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words .
4 Rather , by producing individual or social accounts of disabled individuals ' pathology in society , any economic disadvantage is presented as a byproduct of incapacity or of prejudice .
5 The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups .
6 The judge imposed concurrent periods of three years ' imprisonment on Wright and two years on Christou on each of the charges to which they pleaded guilty .
7 Civil servants sit as non-executive directors on some firms ' boards .
8 My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions .
9 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 .
10 His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him .
11 Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards .
12 Nevertheless , we have been told by counsel that the matter is far from academic , in that justices ' courts are concerned , this being a matter which has exercised justices ' courts on many occasions and on which there are different practices in different justices ' courts .
13 Further , there are underlying themes that are relevant to the subsequent discussion of possible models for general practitioners ' involvement in purchasing .
14 Politicians are now making favourable noises about other countries ' experiments with road pricing .
15 The accused , an accountant , forged 10 cheques on two companies ' bank accounts .
16 The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes .
17 Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish .
18 ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing .
19 The treaty 's economic goals , Sir Michael told his audience of leading businessmen at Chartered Accountants ' Hall , remained valid , with or without progress towards monetary union , and he hoped that it would not fall apart .
20 But hit-and-miss targets were increasingly replaced by sophisticated forecasts for individual industries ' markets based on aims for the overall growth of the economy and its division into private consumption , government spending and so forth .
21 Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4
22 It has to be emphasized that , for those who support the Mobilizing Ideal , these authoritarian features of British governments ' attitudes and behaviour towards the media are not defects but virtues .
23 Glycaemic control and frequency of hypoglycaemic episodes during two months ' treatment with each insulin .
24 At present re-entry programmes range from three evenings to six months ' day release plus supervised practice , and so it is virtually impossible to list every variation on the theme here .
25 Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres .
26 In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child .
27 Following a reception for 80 guests at All Saints ' Hall , Alton the couple left for their honeymoon in Margate .
28 Well what I want to have is erm something like twenty eight , thirty thousand pounds in ten years ' time .
29 ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . )
30 But the writers who use world-system theories in empirical studies of particular countries ' economic history include features that draw it closer to regulationist theory : for example , the uncertainty , problems and changes associated with conflicts over international hegemony are often studied .
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