Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 3 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 4 | And her flights of memory are carried through lyric dance sequences that nicely exploit the five dancers ' fluent technique . |
| 5 | Then along came a new managers ' tool for community care planning called The X Factor . |
| 6 | I have long thought the Scottish Tories ' best hope was the potential popularity of schools opting out of council control . |
| 7 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 8 | On discharge he was still not free of his debt , but the Act greatly improved the insolvent debtors ' lot . |
| 9 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 10 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 11 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 12 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 13 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
| 14 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 15 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 16 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 17 | But from then onwards , they were always asking me to join , but by then I had already opened a young wives ' belonging to the church . |
| 18 | Though the association was quick to change its policy , women , led by Josephine Butler , broke away to form the separatist Ladies ' National Association ( LNA ) . |
| 19 | Why not try the old pals ' act , just the two of us together , it 'll be off the record ? |
| 20 | It soon rumbled the furry frauds ' deceit . |
| 21 | But the Formalists did not share the New Critics ' view of poetry as paradox or resolution of contradictions , since they were not interested in poetry 's meaning . |
| 22 | This allowed the government to allocate sums of money to LEAs for particular educational purposes , thus reducing the local authorities ' control over how the block grant was spent . |
| 23 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 24 | MR PADDY Ashdown yesterday staked the Liberal Democrats ' claim to offer British politics a ‘ moral voice ’ for the 1990s , building on its stance over Hong Kong and the Vietnamese refugees . |
| 25 | A small , happy man with a white beard , he always wore the traditional grocers ' apron . |
| 26 | The magnificent fight which the Spanish workers have waged against the Fascist … has been the wonder of the world … . the Council organized a Mass Meeting in Bradford to place the true facts before the public , and also opened a Spanish workers ' Relief Fund in conjunction with the TUC Solidarity Fund … . |
| 27 | A decree pardoning EPL guerrillas who wished to be reintegrated into civilian life was approved by the government on Jan. 22 ; it also covered the Revolutionary Workers ' Party ( PRT ) , which was to lay down its arms on Jan. 26 , and the militant indigenous Quintín Lamé Commando . |
| 28 | Yet , and here Burgess partly reflects the early sociologists ' emphasis on the new forms of collective organisation , this area of deterioration ‘ is also one of regeneration , as witness the mission , the settlement , the artists ’ colony , radical centers all obsessed with the vision of a new and better world' . |
| 29 | The larger second-class stations would also have a separate ladies ' waiting-room . |
| 30 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |