Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cater for the public 's need for insurance or pension provision . |
| 2 | In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study , where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual 's social world , this contrast is often explicit . |
| 3 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 4 | These relate to the writer 's current research in the Design Discipline at the Open University . |
| 5 | They should have a good feel for the sector 's long-term confidence . |
| 6 | They all belong to the Land 's End-John O'Groats Association , set up to monitor and encourage trips between the nation 's two extremities . |
| 7 | Knowledge of geography , people and processes all contribute to the officer 's ‘ experience ’ , the virtue endorsed by the longer-serving officers . |
| 8 | Increasing volumes of boat traffic along the river , pollution , industrial activities along the river bank , siltation , and incidental mortalities from fishing all contribute to the baiji 's decline . |
| 9 | Press releases , press conferences , radio and television interviews , speeches and articles all contribute to the Council 's profile . |
| 10 | Press releases , press conferences , radio and television interviews , speeches and articles all contribute to the Council 's profile . |
| 11 | 4 Extract from the author 's early essay on ‘ The Younger Generation and Politics ’ , submitted to Faber & Faber when at school , inscribed with T.S . |
| 12 | Nor does it avoid all blame for the City 's other failings , including those at the stock exchange and Lloyd 's . |
| 13 | The Chicago Plan Commission , appointed by the mayor , has ultimate say on the MCA 's building permit . |
| 14 | The former depend upon the plaintiff 's awareness of his condition and his capacity to feel pain . |
| 15 | To the New York Times Pebbles was ‘ the English filly who drinks a pint of stout every morning and went to post in the company of a British gelding she has a crush on ’ ; in the 1985 Breeders ' Cup Turf at Aqueduct she ‘ overcame a poor start and traffic problems to beat the boys by a neck ’ and provide Britain 's first win in a Breeders ' Cup event . |
| 16 | The Dutch case , for example , with the concentration of CD and CP '86 support in the country 's three or four principal cities , has clear analogies with the British example in the 1970s . |
| 17 | Fair play to Ian Broudie for putting his trademark sparkle on the music and for letting the loony parts lie , the way that ‘ Monster Mouth ’ is Jim Bob after getting his throat sorted by Tona De Brett , and how the chorus of ‘ Too Jung ’ is a saucy steal from The Smiths ' ‘ London ’ . |
| 18 | The train ambled out of the flat New Jersey landscape where the towns had a shapless unrooted look like a child 's motel village that must be cleared away by suppertime . |
| 19 | A bad snap on a Colts ' punt attempt later gave Pittsburgh the ball on the Indianapolis 34 and Malone connected with Brenberg for the final Steelers ' first half score with 1:03 remaining . |
| 20 | These would include such features as : allowing the child to initiate a high proportion of interactions : providing conversational bridges — " turnabouts " as Kaye and Charney ( 1980 ) call them — which both respond to the child 's previous utterance and invite him or her to say more ; making reference predominantly to the child 's or to joint activities ; and responding to the child 's utterances with extensions , which both confirm the acceptability of his or her contribution and help them to pursue the topic further . |
| 21 | Though different in detail , these ideas are similar , in that they both derive from the clock 's observable characteristics and behaviour . |
| 22 | Now the tourists find themselves the underdogs with Will Carling expected to lead England to their third win in the sides ' 10th meeting . |
| 23 | Jean and Becky Joplin from Yorkshire — mother Jean , 42 , and daughter Becky , 19 , both work in the family 's marketing business . |