Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both literary and non-literary writing will often develop from the interaction between the pupils ' own insights and what they have read ( or heard read ) in the classroom . |
| 2 | The problems of temperature control are a result of the engineers ' own success . |
| 3 | The accident began with an experiment , to see if power could be supplied to the reactors ' cooling pumps using only the momentum of the stations ' own turbines . |
| 4 | The unions have steadfastly tried to improve the lot of their members , often , it sometimes seems , at the expense of the workers ' own industries . |
| 5 | The departure of a ‘ special ’ child may be particularly problematic because he or she may have invoked part of the parents ' own history , or because the child performed a vital role in the family such as ‘ go-between ’ or communicator . |
| 6 | This would take pedagogic advantage of the learners ' own experience , and would help to ensure that the tasks were independently purposeful — a crucial design feature if the tasks are to induce language processing consistent with natural use . |
| 7 | The plaintiff must be the ‘ target ’ of the combination but if he is , on this view , the advancement of the defendants ' own interests does not justify the use of unlawful means . |
| 8 | Here they are directed at the benefit of the teachers ' own understanding of their craft . |
| 9 | Authenticity of the learners ' own interpretations of such texts . |
| 10 | Through Brian Way 's influence a new kind of college course was emerging that saw drama as the basis for the students ' own personal development . |
| 11 | The length of the period of cultivation in this bush/fallow cycle depended on the quality of the soils , the requirement of the crops for nutrients , and on whether fertility was supplemented by cattle manure from the farmers ' own livestock . |
| 12 | This may include lecture preparation , presentation , research for a publication or article in the members ' own name or research for a new piece of work to be undertaken . |
| 13 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 14 | Having identified the academic curriculum with competitive examinations and the status-seeking of the middle classes , Searle excludes all works of art from the classroom except the pupils ' own creations and those which reflect their lives . |
| 15 | Verbal narrative , as distinct from narrative which includes an element of performance and visual images , has two basic modes of representation : the report of characters ' actions by a narrator , and the presentation of the characters ' own speech in dialogue . |
| 16 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 17 | But this , Taylor and Cameron argue , " rather than offering the analyst direct access to the participants ' own publically displayed identification of units and rules , only postpones the task to a subsequent turn " ( p. 121 ) . |
| 18 | Using local sources in this way the history teacher was able to relate the particular history topic to the pupils ' own locality and so to their own experience . |
| 19 | Such a change of tactics in the gilt-edged market did not preclude intervention , but such intervention would be in accordance with the authorities ' own requirements rather than in response to particular market changes . |
| 20 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
| 21 | The teaching of learned gesture could be approached in a systematic , comparative way , at least with monolingual groups , where differences between learned gesture in the students ' own culture and in the target culture are often a subject of considerable interest . |
| 22 | For the list of county court districts and the courts having bankruptcy jurisdiction over them , see Appendix A. Debtors ' petitions can be presented in whichever county court is specified by Schedule 2 to the rules as being , in relation to the debtors ' own county court , the nearest full time county court if it is more expedient with a view to expediting the petition ( r 6.40(3) ) . |
| 23 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 24 | Of more value was an examination of employment status by the students ' own assessments of the subject content of their research work . |
| 25 | Second , the author provides structure and clear analysis which highlights the issues without compromising the centrality of the users ' own words . |
| 26 | The direction of alleged bias was related in a complex way to the critics ' own partisanship . |
| 27 | We can in fact penetrate beyond the officialese of the correspondents , thanks to the investigations conducted by R. Shafir at this time into the peasants ' own view of the press . |
| 28 | Listening provides a much-needed perspective on the subject , and includes material from the authors ' own recent work in comprehension task design . |
| 29 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |