Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 2 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 3 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 4 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 6 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 7 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 8 | Implexion eventually gave in to the Grand Masters ' begging and pleading and , for a fee , agreed to present Valiance 's case to the Chamber of Ten . |
| 9 | If Sheila does not co-operate with social workers , it may not help if her mother is dragged in on the social workers ' side . |
| 10 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 11 | All necessary information had been efficiently handed over to the new Teachers ' Representative , , who was then introduced and warmly welcomed by . |
| 12 | Organised for children aged nine and over by the Young Ornithologists ' Club . |
| 13 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 14 | He and Sybil took off for a few weeks ' holiday before going back to London . |
| 15 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 16 | I told my boyfriend who was horrorstruck and took myself off to a lesbian students ' conference . |
| 17 | It would then whoosh straight off to the central cashiers ' office . |
| 18 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 19 | Under the banner of industrial democracy various changes have been proposed in the structure of the organisation , decision-making and ownership of companies , involving things such as compulsory councils and co-determination at the shop-floor level , the representation of workers on the board , and most recently ( in Sweden and Holland ) the setting up of a union-controlled wage-earners ' fund by capitalising a percentage of pretax profits , with the newly issued shares being placed in the fund and used to acquire interests in other companies and to supplement wages in the lowest-paid jobs . |
| 20 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 21 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 22 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 23 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 24 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 25 | Despite an existing voluntary Code of Practice , reproduced in part below , drawn up by the National Farmers ' Union to minimise any nuisance and existing legal controls , complaints appear to be on the increase . |
| 26 | A record number of Guinness pensioners turned out for the annual pensioners ' party at Park Royal this month — almost 1,000 descended on the brewery grounds to remenisce about their lives in the brewery . |
| 27 | A small table might be set out for the three bears ' breakfast with three sizes of chair , bowl and so on , together with three sizes of bear for the children to play with . |
| 28 | Tell him to build a tower out of a hundred elephants ' tusks . " |
| 29 | Outside-half Didier Camberabero , not an immaculate hair out of place , converted 11 of those tries by way of reminding France , who left him out of the Five Nations ' side , that he is still a formidable competitor . |
| 30 | In Wall Street journals now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman — the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers ' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door . |