Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A doctor told my parents of a children 's holiday scheme in Switzerland . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 3 | The room made her think of the children 's game where the floor is the sea and full of sharks , and you are only safe on the furniture . |
| 4 | Although there had been no evidence on their computers of the shapechangers ' craft being on the planet , it had been monitored heading towards this unwelcoming world . |
| 5 | Matey might not work so hard as McAllister did , or perform such menial tasks , like scrubbing the kitchen floor and whitening the front doorstep — which was next on McAllister 's list of duties — but she did her share and was never idle , even in her spare time — hence her membership of the ladies ' sewing circle and her encouragement of her housemaid , McAllister , to accompany her to it . |
| 6 | From her knowledge of the artists ' attitudes to their work , she pointed to the part that uncertainties played in the process of making their sculpture . |
| 7 | The speed at which direct marketers such as Dell can move is unparalleled , thanks to their knowledge of the customers ' wants and needs , and has resulted in the development of a whole class of computer-literate users . |
| 8 | The interviews with the class teachers centre on their parent involvement and multi-cultural practices and their assessments of the children 's behaviour and achievement . |
| 9 | Annadale continued their domination of the men 's 1500m with Jim Campbell and Dermot Donnelly who fought out a close finish with Campbell just gaining the verdict by six hundredths of a second in three minutes 47.37 . |
| 10 | The Red Chinese were persuaded to call off their bombardment of the Nationalists ' offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu . |
| 11 | He was RTS television reporter of the year in 1977 , when the award was first introduced , for his coverage of a mercenaries ' trial in Angola . |
| 12 | The whole thing did n't take very long ; just over a year after his freedom of the Weavers ' Company had been approved , William Charles Titford , Linen Draper , ‘ Son of Charles Titford of Frome , Somersetshire , Cheesemonger , ’ became free of the City , ‘ … paying unto Mr Chamberlain for this City 's use the Sum of forty six shillings and eight pence ’ . |
| 13 | Supported by a small inheritance from his father , who died in 1538 , Smith gained his freedom of the Haberdashers ' Company and subsequently of the Skinners ' , the company of Sir Andrew Judde [ q.v. ] , a wealthy City merchant and Kent landowner , whose daughter , Alice , he married about 1555 . |
| 14 | In his study of the Women 's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) , Gusfield argued that the movement shifted from assimilative to coercive reform as the old middle class lost ground to upwardly mobile immigrant groups and the new middle classes . |
| 15 | Tom Walkinshaw , chairman of the BRDC and their trading subsidiary Silverstone Circuits Ltd before the deal was made , has since been sacked and has resigned his membership of the Drivers ' Club . |
| 16 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 17 | The children 's charities are backing our policy of a children 's rights commissioner to whom children can go , wherever they are , and be listened to . |
| 18 | The terms of engagement letter should aim to set out unambiguously our understanding of the clients ' requirements and the nature of the services and assistance we intend to provide . |
| 19 | It is hard to give an example without reprinting the whole correspondence , but we have had articles rejected when our reading of the referees ' reports was that the article merited publishing . |
| 20 | your estimates of the directors ' remuneration on an arms length basis for those years and your expectations for your remuneration package following the sale ; |