Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 2 | Some of the neighbours , however , do n't care much for the spotters ' activities . |
| 3 | The company is responsible not only for the meters ' manufacture , but also their installation and commissioning — and the decommissioning of the old Spectra-Tek equipment . |
| 4 | He was still interested in politics , and for a while a fairly active member of the Labour party , especially during the miners ' strike when he and Solowka canvassed on their behalf . |
| 5 | You say they 've got some sort of guidance , perhaps through the Magistrates ' Association , or maybe through some local starting point tariff if I could put it that way . |
| 6 | Vincent spoke almost enviously of the miners ' darkness , and the chance it gave them to reclaim the light . |
| 7 | It was unusual because specialist nurses did much of the doctors ' work . |
| 8 | It is not permissible for some only of the partners ' names to be shown on business stationery . |
| 9 | He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects . |
| 10 | It can not be otherwise : self governing will happen only with the doctors ' approval and only if they are convinced that patients will benefit . ’ |
| 11 | Our laughter , together with the boys ' cries and whimpers . |
| 12 | At some time in the past , under orders from above , all Reichskanzlei marks and bookplates in German books were destroyed , together with the owners ' annotations . |
| 13 | In addition the place of operation of subsidiaries must be given and the particulars of associated companies together with the directors ' interests in the companies ' shares . |
| 14 | I will provide a copy to Elizabeth and we will circulate it to members of this committee , together with the Ministers ' meeting . |
| 15 | There has been an increase in life expectancy , with the result that not only are there more elderly people , but there is also a greater likelihood that children will have left home long before the parents ' death . |
| 16 | Masnun was out of sight from a poor draw in his last race at Kempton , but ran much better in the Stewards ' Cup here and he 's well in today on his best form . |
| 17 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 18 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 19 | Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults . |
| 20 | If by one careless word now I backed up the rumours Aline was bound to be spreading at night , by tomorrow morning Tom Lofthouse , a chatty lad , would have it all round the Doctors ' House . |
| 21 | Since aid is becoming more , not less , important in Africa there is a crying need for a more outspoken analysis of the problem , not only from the recipients ' point of view , but by the recipients themselves . |
| 22 | The pervasive influence of a combative religious morality was evident not only in the repealers ' language but in the common culture which bound many of them together . |
| 23 | In the aftermath of the Maria Colwell tragedy a report by the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work took this concept as its title and stated that ‘ good enough parenting involves , among other things , a capacity to provide continuity of love and care which is realistic in its expectations of both parent and child and deals with ‘ real ’ conflicts of interests and not those whose origins lie only in the parents ' past' ( CCETSW , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | In response to this new determination by ministers , Government Whips began to huddle together in the Members ' Lobby and elsewhere , like American football players in a scrummage , to plan the retrieval process . |
| 25 | The menus change daily in the directors ' dining rooms , delibars and staff canteens that he operates because the clientele does not . |
| 26 | Our figures on the risk of stillbirth by gestational age strengthen the concept that , especially from the fetuses ' perspective , there is a biologically optimal time for delivery . |
| 27 | The course will concentrate entirely on the teachers ' deficits and have the following components : |
| 28 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 29 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 30 | Much to the artists ' chagrin . |