Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answers to questions about their fellow workers ' reactions when they heard the news of planned redundancies suggested a difference in attitude between some of those who were close to pension age and had been with the company for long periods and other workers . |
| 2 | The region is alleged to have largely ignored children 's bilingual and cultural backgrounds during their special needs ' assessment , and , in a high number of cases , failed to provide interpreters or bilingual psychologists during interviews with children and their parents . |
| 3 | Many of the team 's functions are carried out through its individual members ' work , either in the performance of their county roles ( for example as Inspector or PAL:YPE ) or in their roles as link persons . |
| 4 | The familiarity of their London setting accounted , perhaps , both for their easy assimilation into the literary world and for their contemporary readers ' lack of genuine interest in the more esoteric themes they raise . |
| 5 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 6 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 7 | Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility . |
| 8 | Perhaps the rail planners could take a leaf out of their Victorian predecessors ' books . |
| 9 | Pupils ' gift : Pupils at Grangefield School , Stockton presented North Tees General Hospital in Stockton , with a £10,000 cheque for closed circuit TV as part of their Safe Babies ' Appeal . |
| 10 | Through an explosive expansion , especially in southern Spain , of its rural labourers ' section , the FNTT ( National Landworkers Federation ) , the UGT was suddenly transformed from an organization consisting primarily of skilled urban workers into one decisively influenced by the worst-off members of the agricultural labour force . |
| 11 | Tommy Armour is proud of its top-of-the-range ladies ' clubs , the 845s Silver Scot , and having tried a set I can understand why . |
| 12 | On Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18 the Railway will stage another of its popular Enthusiasts ' Weekends . |
| 13 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 14 | The sisters , who had all married well , were unconcerned that Angel , with only 200 acres of grazing land in the middle of his rich cousins ' estates , had been left to pay his father 's debts . |
| 15 | Following the emphatic victory of his United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) in the April 27 general election [ see p. 38859 ] , Prime Minister John Compton appointed a new Cabinet on May 4 , which contained five new ministers , including Lorraine Williams , the first woman to hold the post of Attorney General . |
| 16 | Alone in the big drawing-room where Annette 's choice of bright fabrics had fought hardest , albeit still without winning against her dead in-laws ' passion for darkpanelled gloom Maxim went straight to the telephone . |
| 17 | Far from experiencing simple gratitude , such children will most likely feel terribly torn and anxious when faced with their foster parents ' offer of affection . |
| 18 | But it was a bitter-sweet day for the striker who lives on the road — training with his old Dons ' mates , staying at his mum and dad 's in Derby and arriving in Sheffield just to do the business . |
| 19 | We 'd kill to have wash'n'wear hair , but we ca n't do a thing with our drooping rats ' tails . |
| 20 | A word with your local Citizens ' Advice Bureau manager may well give you an idea who is doing what and whom they would recommend . |
| 21 | Well does n't it ma , I mean when you do you 'll be away with your different groups ' points and he 'll be |
| 22 | What more natural then that we could hang up our football boots , change into our French cavaliers ' outfits or as quickly become Roman gladiators ? |
| 23 | In my paternal grandparents ' house , things were ordered differently . |
| 24 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 25 | Literature , apart from a reference to the Liverpool poets , is excluded from his working-class pupils ' experience of English in school . |
| 26 | Again , you can find out about these from your local Citizens ' Advice Bureau . |
| 27 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 28 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 29 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 30 | Few commando guerrillas , therefore , can claim to have had as great an influence over their main forces ' campaign as these Independent Companies , for in the Allied advances of 1943 many garrisons could be by-passed and the Japanese on Timor did not quit the island until a month after the armistice in 1945 . |