Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue .
2 In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps .
3 ‘ He 's in there and you 're out here , carrying on for the children 's sake .
4 The teacher can learn much about the children 's thinking by observing the way that children handle and use the equipment .
5 The company is responsible not only for the meters ' manufacture , but also their installation and commissioning — and the decommissioning of the old Spectra-Tek equipment .
6 He was still interested in politics , and for a while a fairly active member of the Labour party , especially during the miners ' strike when he and Solowka canvassed on their behalf .
7 You say they 've got some sort of guidance , perhaps through the Magistrates ' Association , or maybe through some local starting point tariff if I could put it that way .
8 I was called in and told the show was too expensive and was stretching facilities far too greatly for a children 's programme . ’
9 Vincent spoke almost enviously of the miners ' darkness , and the chance it gave them to reclaim the light .
10 It was unusual because specialist nurses did much of the doctors ' work .
11 He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects .
12 Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing .
13 Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 .
14 The doctor performs a tracheotomy , much against the women 's will ; the little girl recovers , and as the Feldsher remarks later , from then on his practice flourishes .
15 It can not be otherwise : self governing will happen only with the doctors ' approval and only if they are convinced that patients will benefit . ’
16 For others , however , circumstances have unfortunately prevented more progress and this particularly so with the Children 's Traffic Club and the application for Urban Aid .
17 I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way .
18 Then , by watching and joining in with the children 's play , the balance of new and old can be altered as their interests change , without having everything in the water at once .
19 I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours .
20 On Aug. 28 , the Interior Minister , Daouda Rabiou , made a statement on national television apparently going along with the men 's action , and the government subsequently seemed powerless to do otherwise .
21 I will provide a copy to Elizabeth and we will circulate it to members of this committee , together with the Ministers ' meeting .
22 There has been an increase in life expectancy , with the result that not only are there more elderly people , but there is also a greater likelihood that children will have left home long before the parents ' death .
23 Masnun was out of sight from a poor draw in his last race at Kempton , but ran much better in the Stewards ' Cup here and he 's well in today on his best form .
24 In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence .
25 She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room .
26 Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults .
27 And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench .
28 If by one careless word now I backed up the rumours Aline was bound to be spreading at night , by tomorrow morning Tom Lofthouse , a chatty lad , would have it all round the Doctors ' House .
29 Since aid is becoming more , not less , important in Africa there is a crying need for a more outspoken analysis of the problem , not only from the recipients ' point of view , but by the recipients themselves .
30 The pervasive influence of a combative religious morality was evident not only in the repealers ' language but in the common culture which bound many of them together .
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