Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from general practitioners suggest that the dilemma or contradiction mentioned earlier is very much a feature of GPs ' theorising ( McIntosh and Horobin 1977 ) . |
| 2 | She headed off upstream , and discovered a fair-sized pool after only a couple of minutes ' walk . |
| 3 | Mm , so it 's only a couple of months ' work really |
| 4 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 5 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 6 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 7 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 8 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 9 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 10 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 11 | Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools . |
| 12 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 13 | He read out a selection of prisoners ' letters today at a reception for the Trust in London . |
| 14 | The society will consider carrying out a survey of solicitors ' charges for conveyancing to compare them with those of competitors here and with professions in other countries . |
| 15 | BT is currently carrying out a survey of customers ' needs . |
| 16 | When the team carried out a survey of clients ' needs , the most common request was for translating and interpreting services . |
| 17 | No-one appeared to carry out an analysis of pupils ' needs . |
| 18 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 19 | The reason why a cut in members ' allowances was not in our budget is I think we did n't consider it and we did n't consider it because the figures involved are so small that it was n't a matter which was , as I say , worthy of financial comment , although I accept it has a political dimension . |