Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] [conj] [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 | They apply to different communities , they have responded to different communities ' needs but they also contribute to a ripple effect of achievement at national and international levels which will ultimately benefit the lives of many more children . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | The Zimbabwean President , Mr Robert Mugabe , yesterday reiterated earlier pledges to resettle hundreds of thousands of black families , but allayed white farmers ' fears that their land would be seized with minimal compensation to mark the tenth independence anniversary . |
8 | The Zimbabwean President , Mr Robert Mugabe , yesterday reiterated earlier pledges to resettle hundreds of thousands of black families , but allayed white farmers ' fears that their land would be seized with minimal compensation to mark the tenth independence anniversary . |
9 | Erm but some of these childrens ' addresses that we 've had at St Paul 's they are very interesting and you get something out of them . |
10 | The hon. Gentleman would know if he had addressed as many farmers ' organisations as I have that the first question farmers ask is how we can deal with the uncertainty of the MacSharry proposals , which now confront us . |
11 | BT has set up a new free service to deal with all customers ' enquiries if they are moving house . |
12 | The concepts therefore were for that age quite sophisticated , indeed quite sophisticated by many adults ' standards as we have seen . |
13 | No weapons were to be seen but a good many shepherds ' crooks and plenty of rough sticks cut from birch or alder . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | If you have paid six full years ' contributions before you cease payments , the Society will make your policy paid-up , leaving the units purchased to remain invested until such time you make a request to encash them . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | They tend to regard each others ' markets as their own ‘ home ’ markets , whereas UK companies still tend to regard selling to EC countries as exporting . |
18 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Answers to questions about their fellow workers ' reactions when they heard the news of planned redundancies suggested a difference in attitude between some of those who were close to pension age and had been with the company for long periods and other workers . |
21 | 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 ? |
22 | Discuss what changes would need to be made if Susan and Bob decided to form a company to take over the business to protect both partners ' interests as they stand under the current partnership agreement . |