Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 What is more , in this day and age it is madness to allow children to roam around after dark knocking on strangers ' doors .
2 Well before the end his shirt was hanging like cling-film , his hair separating into rats ' tails , and his body movements winding down .
3 Therapists should also be flexible so that they can modify their therapeutic approach according to patients ' needs .
4 Of more urgent concern is the uncontrolled way in which new drugs , formulations , and presentations ( not of individual high cost but likely to be used for large numbers of patients ) are introduced , without assessment of health gain or cost , into primary care prescribing by consultants ' recommendations , patient pressure , general practitioners ' individual decisions .
5 The debate over mandatory fees continued throughout the 1970s with a report dealing with architects ' services from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission acting as a catalyst for eventual change .
6 As far as the actual average salary is concerned if you look at page nineteen paragraph K a white page on your report , page nineteen , paragraph K and there you will see that you 're promised an audit report on the position relating to teachers ' salaries , I can confirm that the position is consistent with the remarks that , that were made earlier on , cos you have within the budget here sufficient money to provide for our current estimate of next year 's actual earning salary in these schools .
7 If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to .
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