Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
| 2 | This Government is rarely so generous with the taxpayers ' money , espe cially to people who seek out an in vestment opportunity which does n't involve paying UK tax . |
| 3 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 4 | His own brawny , Mancunian accent was obviously akin to The Chameleons ' Mark Burgess , and combined with the haunting guitar riffs of Gedge 's early songs , it all became very uncanny . |
| 5 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 6 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 7 | As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work . |
| 8 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
| 9 | Richard Hannon 's unbeaten two-year-old , off the course since July with an injured stifle , is only third in the bookmakers ' list for the Group One contest . |
| 10 | From Tom Lofthouse I had heard he was not popular in the Doctors ' House , yet , conversely and amazingly to anyone who had been his junior , our Dr Jones rated as a favourite pin-up in the Staff Nurse 's Home . |
| 11 | He was also largely instrumental in the Casuals ' home ground becoming The Oval for a number of years . |
| 12 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model . |
| 13 | I could ask for a trial , but I was not confident of the judges ' honesty . |
| 14 | He admits that the concept of Wabi is alluring to the vendor but then damningly turns and claims that it 's a solution to the problems of the vendor community , not those of the customers ' . |
| 15 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , safety was not one of the Dreadnoughts ' strong points , and there were some horrible accidents were one car , failing to stop in time , piled into the back of the other injuring and even killing passengers on the steps . |
| 17 | The tiny circuit is a paradise for fast starters and with odd exceptions this is not one of the Bears ' strong points . |
| 18 | The Platoon Commander visits the sangars during the night , and is not surprised by the sentries ' alertness and cheerfulness . |
| 19 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 20 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
| 21 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 22 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
| 23 | A scheme , more successful from the settlers ' point of view , was that in part of Ecuadorian Amazonia , where a ‘ settlements first ; roads second ’ philosophy prevailed . |
| 24 | However , in the real world there is an additional concept of efficiency , which takes cognisance of the fact that real firms are never as technically efficient as the theorists ' firm . |
| 25 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 26 | These are directly congruent with the beings ' activities : whether they cause harm , in the form of disease and mishap , or whether they help to set things right following such a damaging occurrence . |
| 27 | Still active in the students ' movement , I continued to struggle for recognition of our oppressions as women , lesbians and gays , and people with disabilities . |
| 28 | Those most involved also experience most feedback and are more aware of the governors ' and the LEA 's response to the report . |
| 29 | Frequent television viewers were significantly more aware of opinion poll findings , more aware of party leaders ' activities , more aware of second-rank politicians ' activities , and more aware of the parties ' campaign themes . |
| 30 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |