Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 2 | Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners ' legs , |
| 3 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 5 | Better still , look at its insurance ratings compared with close rivals ' : the Golf GTi and Rover 216 GTi fall into group 14 , the Escort XR3i into group 15 , the Furio nestles happily in group 11 . |
| 6 | a ) How can schools ensure that records of achievement provide evidence of the skills and aptitudes required for specific employers ' needs ? b ) Would n't it be unfair if employment tests were waived for Compact graduates , but maintained for non-Compact job applicants ? c ) If local policies are negotiated regarding this issue , what will be the implications for national companies ? |
| 7 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 8 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 9 | Not so some of the recent American monuments financed by large veterans ' associations . |
| 10 | We see the same biochemical processes , the same use of sign stimuli and programmed learning , identical strategies of information processing and storage , the same potential for well-defined cognitive thinking , but very different storage and sorting capacities and , most of all , very different intellectual needs imposed by each species ' niche . |
| 11 | During the 1980s data networks of various kinds were spreading to more and more United States companies and industries ; several factors encouraged this , not least the deregulation of telecommunications and the emergence of new software packages tailored to particular industries ' networking needs . |
| 12 | She imagined the English departments of various American universities converted into huge breakers ' yards in which was being dismantled the edifice of world literature … |
| 13 | The republic of Karachai-Cherkessia within the Russian Federation held a referendum on March 28 on preserving the unity of the republic " in the full realization of the law " On the rehabilitation of ethnic groups affected by Stalinist purges ' " . |
| 14 | The team got off to a good start on the general knowledge round , they then had to answer questions connected with local councillors ' work . |
| 15 | Here Yakovlev met him surrounded by packed shelves and metals acquired with two months ' credit from the Tartar Republic . |
| 16 | Some books were purchased at the divisional library and these were augmented by orders based on individual teachers ' specialist knowledge and individual visits , undertaken on their own initiative to bookshops in various places . |
| 17 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 18 | The two others , Daniel Santovenia Fernández and Pedro de la Caridad Alvárez Pedroso , had their sentences commuted to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 20 | Other villages linked with Young Farmers ' Clubs for joint activities and the social purpose of the WEA was exemplified through course-linked visits to theatres in Cambridge and Oxford while other visits were arranged to Parliament . |
| 21 | By contrast babies born after 40 weeks ' gestation had raised death rates from non-cardiovascular causes , reflected in higher rates from all causes combined . |
| 22 | Examples taken from both choreographers ' works describe the particular feelings , moods and emotions of the characters their dancers are portraying . |
| 23 | The top right-hand corner was decorated with small rose leaves interspersed with some ladies ' bedstraw , on which I arranged some geums and cow parsley centres . |
| 24 | The tenacity , ingenuity and resourcefulness of the women involved in these Groups ' activities was remarkable for the sheer depth of social and material capacities which it uncovered . |
| 25 | In its 130-page publication on the subject , an aspiring paperback writer has seen fit to throw in quotes and subtitles taken from famous Beatles ' songs , which is apparently intended ‘ to disrupt the close relationship between the thinkable and speakable and to think the otherwise unspeakable ’ . |
| 26 | The agreement represented an improvement on conditions in the UK , where , although pregnant women qualified for 40 weeks ' maternity leave , only six weeks were at 90 per cent of salary and 12 weeks were at £46.30 a week , and they had to have worked for at least two years ( five if part-time ) . |
| 27 | This had been among the most violent events reported during several weeks ' of clashes between Kirghiz and Uzbeks in Kirghizia 's Osh oblast ( region ) [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] . |