Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 2 | Increased diagnostic accuracy by team members was associated with longer experience of team working , regardless of the team members ' professional background . |
| 3 | He had even made a suggestion about a piece she might write on the role of women in the Tory Party , perhaps in the Government Whips ' Office . |
| 4 | The unlikely deal was probably finally swung by the long friendship between Ferguson and Wilkinson , who work closely together in the League Managers ' Association . |
| 5 | Between 1983 and 1987 he served successively in the government whips ' office and at the Department of Health and Social Security , entering the Cabinet in the latter year as Chief Secretary to the Treasury [ see pp. 35271-72 ] ; after briefly holding the post of Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary in mid-1989 [ see p. 36819 ] , he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1989 following the sudden resignation of Lawson [ see pp. 36982-83 ] . |
| 6 | The characteristic cathedral sound stems largely from the employment-of boys ' voices , and one of the most important components in the English cathedral tradition remains the choir school . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 8 | SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD James Spreng , captain of Stewart's-Melville XI , and his brother , Gerald ( 15 ) , who plays in the same side , have been selected for the Under-18 and Under-16 Scotland squads respectively for the home schools ' internationals in Cork at the end of next month . |
| 9 | The Government 's latest position on the Maastricht Bill debacle , presented with patrician brazenness by Douglas Hurd yesterday as the law officers ' latest position , is that it matters not a whit whether MPs approve Labour 's amendment on the social chapter . |
| 10 | THE TUC cleared the way yesterday for the rebel electricians ' union to return to the fold . |
| 11 | It is more in the investment banks ' interest to maintain relationships . |
| 12 | She was on her way home from a school governors ' meeting when she had a puncture . |
| 13 | When triggered by signals from EUCOM , the AFSAT equipment sends a recorded message directly to the cruise missiles ' launch control centres . |
| 14 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 15 | You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book . |
| 16 | This was true to some extent in France where , by the turn of the century , it was necessary to articulate more forcefully to the government employers ' opposition to labour legislation in view of ‘ the apparent receptivity of lawmakers to demands from Socialists and organised labour for assistance ’ ( Kuisel , 1981 , p. 20 ) . |
| 17 | Now to the miso producers ' rescue has come tonyu — soyamilk , In fact , soyamilk is not new . |
| 18 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |
| 19 | The wind was blowing hard at the Highlanders ' faces , according to the literature given out at the Culloden Visitors ' Centre , and the two armies were in position at one o'clock , approximately four to five hundred yards apart . |
| 20 | With any luck later in the week a survey will appear here of the NorthEast breweries ' increases . |
| 21 | ( Hop bitterness does not sit well with the wheat beers ' particular style of fruitiness . |
| 22 | Liverpool , the holders , get the chance to play European opposition , namely Swansea , who flirted briefly with the Cup Winners ' Cup this season , losing to Panathinaikos almost before they could pronounce it . |
| 23 | Prominent among those taking the pessimistic view , but active in opposing what he sees to be an extremely undesirable trend , is Mike Cooley , for many years a development engineer and active trade unionist within Lucas Aerospace and one of the architects of the Alternative Corporate Plan put forward by the shop stewards ' committee in that company . |
| 24 | These would resurface , bereft of fun , in the childish dance of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , as later , much more lightly in the Jellicle Cats ' ‘ Reserving their terpsichorean powers/ To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon . ’ |