Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the country 's largest demonstration since the early 1980s , an estimated 30,000 protesters gathered in Berne , the capital , on March 3 to demand an end to state surveillance of citizens ' political activities . |
| 2 | The requirements on schools to publish information about pupils ' aggregated results of national curriculum testing ( see Chapter 5 ) , and the decision in 1983 to publish HMI reports on individual schools , are clearly intended to enable parents to evaluate schools ' performance through a comparison of their academic achievements . |
| 3 | The main aim of this project is to examine the relationship between parents ' facial expressiveness ( ie how facially expressive they are when feeling emotional ) and their children 's skill in decoding non verbal information ( in this case , their ability to recognise emotions from others ' facial expressions ) . |
| 4 | To develop measures of infants ' cognitive ability in the age range 6-18 months which can be used |
| 5 | An influx of volunteers , it was felt , may give managers an opportunity to take advantage of workers ' particular skills and interests . |
| 6 | So protests about the Government 's proposals to charge parents for extras ' such as swimming lessons and cooking materials fall wide of the mark . |
| 7 | This seems to authorise modification of firms ' common law and equitable fiduciary duties to participants , and regulations have been made which permit self-dealing under certain conditions and the retention of profits and benefits derived from self-dealing . |