Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DROMORE High lifted their third successive High Schools ' Cup when they defeated perennial opponents Limavady High in yesterday 's final shoot-out at Ravenhill . |
| 2 | It was usual for the Girls to stay at the English Girls ' Club when they first arrived . |
| 3 | You have to put the the regional accents acc accent if they have one . |
| 4 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
| 5 | Platies are an ideal beginners ' fish because they will stand poor water conditions — but no fish can survive poisoning caused by poor filtration . |
| 6 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 7 | Management organized a Black workers ' meeting because they needed our response to a report on ethnic minorities . |
| 8 | Parents may understandably often try to deny the reality of their black children 's unhappiness because they like to think that their children are secure and happy , thus reflecting their success as adopters . |
| 9 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 10 | But in December 1985 United States ’ officials indicated that they could accept a United Nations ' agreement if it led to a ‘ comprehensive and just settlement ’ , involving a short time frame for Soviet withdrawal and self-determination . |
| 11 | If you have paid six full years ' contributions before you cease payments , the Society will make your policy paid-up , leaving the units purchased to remain invested until such time you make a request to encash them . |
| 12 | Yet Brazil is fully capable of producing imaginative children 's programmes when it wants to . |
| 13 | Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations ' economy because it is a source of foreign income . |
| 14 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 15 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 16 | They might make an incidental contribution to crop production by agreeing to graze their herds over settled farmers ' land once it had been harvested . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It could be any other thirtysomethings ' flat if it was n't for the sled and cross-country skis on the balcony . |
| 19 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 20 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 21 | Mahler needed to become a conductor of other men 's music before he became a real composer . |
| 22 | It is important the fireworks do n't get into young children 's hands because they themselves er will be in danger . |
| 23 | Women ‘ police ’ other women 's bodies because we know how important our appearance is in a society which objectifies us . |
| 24 | Raymond Allison , 17 , of Amberley Green , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institute when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court yesterday . |
| 25 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 26 | His memoir of those days on page 138 , sheds light on the star of Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets ' Society before he was claimed by fame and fortune . |
| 27 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |
| 28 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |