Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 She is also to serve three years ' probation and do community service at Hale House in Harlem .
2 Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution .
3 Incentives and fees for service will be needed to reduce private doctors ' autonomy and increase their accountability to the state .
4 In some SSDs , relations with the police are dire , joint training is in tatters , and little is being done to build social workers ' confidence and skills are growing , and successful prosecutions have been achieved using the memorandum .
5 Although advocates of the main parties are allowed to cross-examine other parties ' witnesses and the advocates are frequently barristers or solicitors , hearings are not as formal as a court of law and great effort is generally made to bring out the real substance of the layman 's arguments .
6 In his 1955–56 Annual Report , for example , Jacques wrote that if only this level of grant could be achieved , something could be done to raise part-time tutors ' fees and so reduce the glaring disparity between the minima of £1 110. 0d. for teaching a WEA Terminal class and £3 10s. 0d. for taking a University Sessional class .
7 The legislation allowed the government to confiscate white farmers ' land and to pay compensation at a price of its own choosing , without being subject to legal challenge by the owner of the land .
8 Dr David Moore of Manchester University on the decision to allow the British astronaut to take 24 quails ' eggs and 24 mushrooms on the Soviet Juno space mission People are standing in front of the toaster saying ‘ Faster , faster ’ .
9 In a visit to Moscow in April Walesa was expected to ask the Soviet Union to follow Western creditors ' lead and reduce Poland 's $1,700 million debt to the Soviet Union .
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