Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who were involved in voluntary work , or community work , or with the unemployed workers ' centre , were also sort of being taken out of themselves more , and these things are important in and of themselves . |
| 2 | Quotas can be introduced , which might or might not be tradeable between farmers ( David Baldock of the IEEP suggests that within the National Farmers ' Union a debate over quotas ended with victory for those in favour of no such regulation ) . |
| 3 | Some people expect that in a few decades ' time youngsters will learn from their home tutor computers and rarely , if ever , have contact with a human teacher . |
| 4 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 5 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 6 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 7 | Similarly feminism has stressed the importance of subjectivity , arguing that in the past men 's experience has been presented as the objective truth . |
| 8 | Spare Rib , May 1977 , reported that at the national Women 's Liberation conference , the Fifth Demand group ( for Financial and Legal Independence ) opposed the demand that ‘ every individual person , whether in or out of employment , should receive a Guaranteed Minimum Income as of right ’ on the grounds that ‘ it would amount to implicit support for the Wages for Housework Campaign ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 9 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 10 | Prize for the Best First Novel went to James Hamilton-Paterson for Gerontius ( Macmillan , £12.95 ) ; and for the Best Children 's Novel to Hugh Scott for Why Weeps the Brogan ? |
| 11 | Opposition also began to mount among concerned citizens of the area , an opposition which manifested itself both individually and through the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association , formed two years previously , which had not involved itself in any controversy over previous planning applications for industrial projects in the area . |
| 12 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 13 | James , Earl of Douglas , raided Northumberland , laying siege to Newcastle , and after a few days ' inconclusive skirmishing , the Scots army retreated into the Cheviot Hills . |
| 14 | Some recent interpretations of Greek history , and of the Greek historians ' versions of it , have suggested that there was , in fact , a gap between such ideals and the actual practice and that we should not take their own statements too literally . |
| 15 | It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties . |
| 16 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 17 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 18 | Let them run down just so much every year , remember your low outgoings , and in a few years ' time have them towed away for their break-up value . " |
| 19 | All this has a snowball effect on the day 's turnover and on the individual dealers ' commissions . |
| 20 | Inside and outside the English Girls ' Club in Paris . |
| 21 | An agreement signed by the government of President Violeta Chamorro and by the National Workers ' Front ( FNT ) on July 12 ended a 15-day general strike by an estimated 100,000 workers in public , private and agricultural sectors which had paralysed the country and brought it to the brink of civil war . |
| 22 | Even so , the limits are shown by management 's determination to maintain tight control over the terms of the effort bargain in newly extended job roles , both by improved measurement of individual productivities and the retention of strict disciplinary rules on the shopfloor , and by the manual unions ' hostility towards the Employee Involvement programme . |
| 23 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 24 | This is because of the limited partnerships ' tax losses while drilling , and the availability of capital allowances . |
| 25 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 26 | Instead a growing number of elderly demented people were admitted because of the local authorities ' failure to provide alternative care . |
| 27 | Because of the original engineers ' appreciation of its intrinsic brittleness , cast-iron members tend to be stressed to lower levels than steelwork and the way they were incorporated into buildings usually allows them to expand in a fire without generating increased stresses . |
| 28 | Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life . |
| 29 | Brigade officers said that but for the two men 's prompt action the woman almost certainly would have died . |
| 30 | As for the internal auditors ' role , ‘ they 're not expected to do a full statutory audit but a great deal of the detailed work which , carried out on a continuous basis , would greatly increase the probability of detecting fraud . ’ |