Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the influence on teachers ' attitudes is probably greater than any immediate action taken as a result of analysing one child 's miscues . |
| 2 | Only the murmur of ships ' engines and swish of bows cutting the tide could be heard across the calm sea . |
| 3 | These factors imply that not only the setting-up of institutions ' arrangements , but also the growth of common cultural attitudes to the conducting of business activities , are a necessary component in the establishing of an effective SEM . |
| 4 | Data from general practitioners suggest that the dilemma or contradiction mentioned earlier is very much a feature of GPs ' theorising ( McIntosh and Horobin 1977 ) . |
| 5 | She headed off upstream , and discovered a fair-sized pool after only a couple of minutes ' walk . |
| 6 | Mm , so it 's only a couple of months ' work really |
| 7 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 8 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 9 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 10 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 11 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 12 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 13 | This impression of relative prosperity would be even more the case in physicians ' private offices , but these are unevenly distributed and are largely absent from the poorest parts of the city . |
| 14 | Whereas in England , the use of affidavits is commonplace , the tendency North of the Border is still to require witnesses to speak to documents in person , complicating even further the coordination of judges ' and advocates ' business diaries with those of expert witnesses . |
| 15 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 16 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 17 | Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools . |
| 18 | Does the same exclusion of teachers apply to the Act 's seventh and final change , namely the enhancement of governors ' powers ? |
| 19 | Initially , the system worked well : Federconsorzi used its national clout to bid up the price of farmers ' crops and bargain down the cost of their supplies . |
| 20 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 21 | With government , central or regional , unable to make up the difference between parents ' ability to pay and the needs of schools , sharp differences in quality of education are inevitable . |
| 22 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 23 | Please take a look in your own back yard before pointing out the mess in others ' . |
| 24 | The authorities were anxious not just about the state of students ' political thought but their physical and mental health as well since they were increasingly prone to fall foul of temptation . |
| 25 | He read out a selection of prisoners ' letters today at a reception for the Trust in London . |
| 26 | The society will consider carrying out a survey of solicitors ' charges for conveyancing to compare them with those of competitors here and with professions in other countries . |
| 27 | BT is currently carrying out a survey of customers ' needs . |
| 28 | When the team carried out a survey of clients ' needs , the most common request was for translating and interpreting services . |
| 29 | No-one appeared to carry out an analysis of pupils ' needs . |
| 30 | The swell of responses seemed alone to fill the crisp air , even the rasp of soldiers ' boots on the paving-stones went unheard . |