Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next most basic distinction is between direct taxes levied on households ' and enterprises ' incomes and indirect taxes levied on expenditure . |
| 2 | To Freire , the purpose of education should be human liberation , which means people are subjects of their own learning , not empty vessels filled by teachers ' knowledge . |
| 3 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 4 | Since last November the average settlements recorded by Rewards ' clients has been 5 p.c . |
| 5 | The majority of these items related to solicitors ' charges , other professional advisers ' charges or receivers ' remuneration . |
| 6 | They rounded a spur and came upon a small encampment — three or four rude tents , with matting walls and black roofs made from goats ' hair . |
| 7 | Before 1914 workers suffered from employers ' determination and ability ( in a situation of a plentiful labour supply ) to maintain low money wages regardless of the costs in terms of low productivity and slow adaptation to new technological possibilities . |
| 8 | Care in the community implies the use of statutory resources provided in clients ' own homes ; care by the community is associated with the mobilization of resources from within the community ( voluntary organizations and informal carers such as friends , neighbours and kin ) . |
| 9 | Financial and legal pressures have forced councils to hand over debt recovery to private agents known as sheriffs ' officers — Scottish bailiffs — in a surprisingly clinical fashion . |
| 10 | Many wore jewelled , gilded coronets fringed with lions ' manes . |
| 11 | They are freshly prepared from organic fruit and vegetables and consist of four carrot and apple juices , four green leaf juices , four juices extracted from calves ' liver and one orange juice . |
| 12 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |