Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older people were much more impressed by politicians ' energy than were younger people . |
| 2 | Curiously , it is still rather unusual for solicitors ' partnership agreements to provide that partners should retire upon reaching an agreed age , though it might be thought that there are good reasons for making this a requirement in the interests of a firm 's long term planning . |
| 3 | Liturgies raising social and development issues , such as Christian Aid liturgies , were often used on less formal occasions , and were often not central to churches ' worshipping pattern . |
| 4 | Take , by way of example , a devoted nurse who is quite exceptionally sensitive to patients ' needs . |
| 5 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 6 | However , the proportionate use of custody is very much lower in magistrates ' courts ( at 5.1 per cent for adults in 1999 ) than it is in Crown Courts ( where the corresponding figure was 47.6 per cent : Home Office , 1990f ) . |