Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When O'Neill returned from a meeting with Harold Wilson in London , he reacted in a manner guaranteed to confirm the Free Presbyterians ' claims that O'Neill 's policies were designed to achieve in the political sphere what the ecumenical movement was trying to do in inter denominational co-operation . |
| 2 | Clearly , the houses will then be put in a position of having to sell bills ( or to borrow ) to meet the other banks ' demands . |
| 3 | He was able to checkmate the French evolutionists ' efforts to use the duck-billed platypus as a link between reptiles and mammals because he alone had access to a good supply of specimens . |
| 4 | He was there to explain to the court that he and the other officers had tried to control the Nazi leaders ' demands for gross reprisals for the deaths of the Germans in the Via Rassella . |
| 5 | But to understand fully why and how they are allowed to do this , the above questions must be tackled and to do this I need to document the black kids ' experiences at two levels : the family and the school . |
| 6 | Rather than try to change the reluctant-to-move employees ' attitudes or even find out why they reject the transfer , companies may accept the easy option and transfer other willing individuals . |
| 7 | In an elderly upper-crust voice , I complained about ‘ This business of trying to jam the other chaps ' telephones — y'know , it has n't done us any favours at all , frankly . |
| 8 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
| 9 | at the heart of the assessment process there will be nationally prescribed tests done by all pupils to supplement the individual teachers ' assessments … |