Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | AT&T Co has raised $400m with an issue of notes due May 1 1995 at par to yield 3.35% for the first year , after which the notes ' yield will float on a quarterly basis over the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate and are noncallable for life . |
2 | If the company or its ultimate holding company is a quoted company , the sale of such assets may also constitute a Class 4 transaction for which the shareholders ' approval is required under Stock Exchange rules . |
3 | The cross at the base of the obelisks is the insignia of the Knights of Malta of whom the Carmelites ' patron , Balthasar Huerta , was a member . |
4 | The remaining items tended to be of the titillating variety of which a teenagers ' Christmas party is fairly typical : ‘ 8-in-a bed ’ sex romp . |
5 | Margarete 's memorialising book about Milena , published when the author was already in her late seventies , gives grimly graphic pictures of camp life , and underlines , as if it were needed , how the two womens ' all too comprehensive experience of two totalitarian systems led Milena to declare that Stalinism and Hitlerism were indistinguishable ( as a result of which the communists ' leader in the camp declared that ‘ after the liberation Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann would be stood up against the wall by the Red Army . ’ |
6 | The study continued for a total of two years six months ( median two years ) , at the end of which the patients ' hospital and general practitioner notes were reviewed together with records of prompted clinical and eye reviews . |
7 | This happened despite whatever the countries ' constitutions may have said about freedom of speech . |
8 | Here is James Butterworth , for example , writing fifty years ago and reciting an uncannily familiar catalogue of ‘ postwar ’ trends against which the boys ' club leader of the 1930s must labour : |
9 | but on the other of simmering discontent on the part of some prominent members of the town about the School and in particular its Headmaster , into which the Goldsmiths ' Company were dragged as unwilling participants . |
10 | Second , there is the issue of the manner in which the defendants ' entitlement is to be quantified in relation to ( a ) litigation costs and ( b ) non-litigation costs . |
11 | The study of black sportsmen and society brings into relief the way in which the youths ' orientations to school and what they expect to achieve from education affect , not segmentally but totally , their attitudes , postures and the way in which they apportion their time and energies . |
12 | This fantasy is compounded in ads for sports shoes by Nike or Reebok , in which the superstars ' looks are almost as spectacular as their talent . |
13 | It 's a ‘ sculptural ’ piece , in which the performers ' bodies become a continuation of the sculptural pieces . |
14 | Our main argument in this paper is that linguists have not often recognised the need for this sort of justification ; that their views about what is educationally relevant in the field of language study does not always coincide with the concerns expressed by educationalists ; and that linguists and educationalists need to begin a common search for relevance in which the linguists ' knowledge is related to a frame of reference based on the needs of learners and teachers . |
15 | The situation reaches fever pitch in a bizarre climax in which the characters ' cries and laughter ring out through the hot , humid air of the bayou , where men and women wage yet another round in the tug of war between love and lust , innocence and experience . |
16 | Within a partnership the interests of the partners can be diverse and the success of the practice hinge on the way in which the partners ' ambitions are moulded together into a harmonious plan . |
17 | Without them the characters ' courage would look smaller ; and courage is perhaps the strongest element in the Tolkienian synthesis of virtue . |
18 | The principle elements of the hospice — single rooms and patient care facilities — project in a wing which extends along the base of the hills , around an internal courtyard over which the nurses ' station discreetly presides . |
19 | In the absence of any objective index of the children 's true ability we can not know the extent to which the teachers ' ratings were themselves unduly influenced by the observed behaviour . |
20 | Researchers , however , have been troubled by questions of sampling and by the extent to which the writers ' self-consciousness of their mission affects the data . |
21 | Guibert of Nogent , a distinguished raconteur , was in the city on 26 April , the day on which the burghers ' resentment boiled over into rebellion , and left this account of events : |
22 | She determined she would show him how generous she could be , next time , how to her the priests ' talk was cant , and she 'd defy all for love of him . |
23 | He began his bookselling activities in about 1770 from his father 's shop , but had moved to 13 Aldgate High Street by the end of 1773 ; it was at this time that his first publications came out , among them the Ladies ' Museum ( 1773–1814 ) , and that he began to explore the possibilities of circulating libraries . |
24 | Several Trade Unions agreed to support the Communist application , among them the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , whose votes made up the bulk of those recorded for Communist affiliation at the Edinburgh Conference of the Labour Party . |
25 | Indeed , Caparo was not represented at Fidelity 's agm on 4 July , at which the auditors ' report was read and the accounts received . |
26 | These set the minimum amount of capital ( free assets , or the amount by which an insurers ' assets exceed the actuarial calculation of its liabilities ) that an insurer must have to reassure customers and regulators that it can meet its liabilities . |