Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] the [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , if the GPs were to act as Health Maintenance Organizations ( HMOs ) and have a budget to cover the total care for their patients , a Type I system would give them considerable freedom of referral , but would not necessarily increase the patients ' freedom . |
| 2 | Matlock 's action will not affect the Pistols ' reunion . |
| 3 | Improving doctors ' premises , which is essential , will undoubtedly lead to better care and promote the development of primary care teams but may not influence the doctors ' referral behaviour and the need for acute beds in London . |
| 4 | There had , however , been ‘ extensive contact ’ with the Law Society , which had decided that the system did not contravene the solicitors ' code of practice . |
| 5 | It would seem reasonable for the seller to stipulate that he will not guarantee the goods ' suitability for that purpose . |
| 6 | The paper was returned because it did not suit the magazines 's readership , but was accepted by Infection and Immunity . |
| 7 | Three mothers did not know the children 's birth weights ; these mothers had one , two , and four children . |
| 8 | I simply could not understand the boys ' sense of humour . |
| 9 | But the settlers who had come to America to look for land did not like the proprietors ' form of ownership . |
| 10 | Michael Jones , president-elect of the National Association of Estate Agents , does n't exactly endorse the architects ' case , but he too is deeply critical of the volume builders . |
| 11 | If a company heading a small group chooses not to take advantage of the exemption from preparing group accounts , its group accounts will not normally contain the auditors ' report required by s 248(3) . |
| 12 | These variations do not jeopardise the animals ' ability to do their work well , provided the strain is a good one . |
| 13 | It will be appreciated that a single developmental problem , such as defective vision , need not dominate the pupils ' classroom activities , nor differentiate them unduly from the classmates with whom they work and play . |
| 14 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 15 | However , I do not share The Children 's Society 's indignation . |
| 16 | If this decoy assault should fail to draw the English troops from the camp at Belmont , he knew the islanders could not match the outsiders ' firepower in open battle . |
| 17 | Too many Cooks did not spoil the travellers ' broth and by the end of the nineteenth century Cooks had offices across Europe and America , Australia and New Zealand , Canada , the Middle East and India . |
| 18 | As an aside the research revealed that just under half of the women questioned did not support the women 's liberation movement . |
| 19 | Contemporary accounts do not support the evolutionists ' claim that Huxley demolished Wilberforce 's arguments at the British Association meeting . |
| 20 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 21 | Fourth , it did not address the Tories ' claim to be able to offer something for nothing ( via ‘ efficiency gains ’ ) in the public sector . |
| 22 | Indeed the teacher who constantly interrupts the students ’ discourse to correct every grammatical mistake not only violates usual turn-taking procedures but may also hinder the students ' acquisition of them . |
| 23 | He will also contact the Boys ' Brigade , to see if they 'd be prepared to play , and S O S transport international , to obtain more information . |
| 24 | Labour 's plans to establish home rule for Scotland will also strengthen the Unionists ' push for decentralised power , cutting across the Anglo-Irish treaty . |
| 25 | Not only would the courts leave the meaning of the term to the magistrates ; they would also accept the magistrates ' view as to whether the evidence justified applying that term to the case . |
| 26 | This helps agencies , but will it really aid the politicians ' cause ? |
| 27 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 28 | I can well understand the plaintiffs ' sense of indignation at the defendants ' breaches of the injunction , and the court will have to consider very carefully all aspects of those breaches when the inevitable contempt proceedings are heard . |
| 29 | and he says they looked he says but I never forgot what I looked like , or what I when he started , but you ca n't join the boys ' service now . |
| 30 | And then world-class backs Martin Offiah , captain Dean Bell and Martin Offiah will surely end the Cumbrians ' run of nine victories and destroy their hopes of reaching the semi-finals for the first time in the club 's history . |