Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 2 | Mean energy intake ( Table III ) was not significantly different in the two groups before treatment , increased in both groups after four weeks ' treatment , and was maintained in the steroid treated group but not in the group treated with the elemental diet after 13 weeks . |
| 3 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 4 | After initial support from the Department of Employment , Compact has raised funds for four years ' work from Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council , Liverpool City Council and the private sector . |
| 5 | There were , there were two erm boarding schools for Methodist ministers ' children . |
| 6 | This agreement grew out of a proposal put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev as a compromise between the demands for individual states ' armies and unified CIS conventional forces . |
| 7 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
| 8 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 9 | Maincrop carrots after 6 months ' root growth |
| 10 | We listen time and again to scare stories about loony left Labour councils , many of which are figments of Conservative Members ' imaginations . |
| 11 | The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups . |
| 12 | Yesterday he told the heads of such toffs ' schools as Eton and Marlborough that nothing had changed . |
| 13 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 14 | The interest spread to other disciplines , even to such apparently distant research areas as the relationship between ratings of female singers ' androgyny , and their music genre and record sleeve images ( Thaxton and Jaret 1985 ) . |
| 15 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 16 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 17 | Flowers such as the ox-eyed daisy , poppies , lords and ladies , stitchwort , speedwell , herb Robert , white yarrow and blackberry toad flax were shown along with pictures of dew-laden spiders ' webs draped on flowers . |
| 18 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 19 | Local changes can be detected from employment , taxation and social security records and also Executive Councils ' lists of general practitioners ' patients ( though these are notoriously out of date especially for age groups having little need of medical care and therefore slow to register with a new GP after moving ) . |
| 20 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
| 21 | In the final , expecting a tougher time against Norfolk , they ran out 7–0 winners with Old Loughts ' Ian Barker and Krishnan both notching hat-tricks and Chelmsford 's Phil Benton adding the other . |
| 22 | Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres . |
| 23 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 24 | The Welsh ace bagged four goals in this Cup-Winners ' Cup romp to eclipse Sixties ' idol Roger Hunt . |
| 25 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 26 | In 100 women with normal singleton pregnancies at 6–12 weeks ' gestation , written consent was obtained for coelocentesis and amniocentesis immediately before elective termination for psychological indications . |
| 27 | Rather , by producing individual or social accounts of disabled individuals ' pathology in society , any economic disadvantage is presented as a byproduct of incapacity or of prejudice . |
| 28 | So in spite of Reaganite sneers and the activities of hostile employers ' organisations such as the Equal Employment Advisory Committee , progress for North American women and minority people is being made . |
| 29 | Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed . |
| 30 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |