Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [coord] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 2 | Now they 've gone off to other groups handing out food , like Food for Work and the Mothers ' Clubs where they do weaving and knitting and things like that . ’ |
| 3 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |
| 4 | They might , as we have suggested , feel confident of some ability between their own world of ideas and the Greeks ' , and so think themselves particularly well equipped to explore this alternative . |
| 5 | But interestingly there 's no mention of Majorism or the citizens ' charter . |
| 6 | At a sales level , the reports of the IoD speech had but a marginal effect — Ratner 's outlets trade under a variety of names and the consumers ' memory is short . |
| 7 | Murder by Misadventure is sprinkled with the classic thriller ingredients — mystery , mistrust and a pinch of intrigue — but the real keys to its appeal are the innovative means of detection and the offenders ' attempts at anonymity . |
| 8 | The government found itself having to make concessions to normally docile bodies like the House of Lords and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals , over such matters as security of tenure for academics and the universities ' powers to raise their own finance . |
| 9 | I think that patients can see that the reforms are working — there are better clinic hours , with evening and out-of-hours clinics , and improvements in service and the patients ' environment . |
| 10 | McCall 's injury has returned because of the insufficient recovery time between matches and the Rangers ' secretary/director , Campbell Ogilvie , is now investigating the matter of what should be done about the free Saturday that has been left in the programme before Scotland 's next World Cup qualifying tie , against Portugal on 28 April . |
| 11 | Richards asked a sample audience in Cambridge to describe their responses to a set of thirteen poems supplied without titles or the authors ' names . |
| 12 | Draft Contract Between School and the Teachers ' Centre |
| 13 | One lane , often heavy traffic , tends to stop while the other continues to rush past at speed and the pedestrians ' view is obscured by the heavy traffic . |
| 14 | The bank column is increased by £1,000 and the owners ' equity column by the same amount . |
| 15 | However , it had been my intention , and still will be my intention unless I am persuaded very strongly to the contrary , that when I close the enquiry , which I hope will be next Wednesday , I will have in my hands all of the representations , that is to say , both any additional re representations by objectors and the Councils ' replies , before I close the enquiry . |
| 16 | First a trench to hold the foundations was dug out , then large stones , broken up by gunpowder if necessary , were moved into position , followed by smaller ones , smashed by sledgehammer , then at least two feet [ 0.6 m ] of gravel , delivered by cart , which was pounded into place by shovels and the soldiers ' boots . |