Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 3 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 4 | And her flights of memory are carried through lyric dance sequences that nicely exploit the five dancers ' fluent technique . |
| 5 | I have long thought the Scottish Tories ' best hope was the potential popularity of schools opting out of council control . |
| 6 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 7 | On discharge he was still not free of his debt , but the Act greatly improved the insolvent debtors ' lot . |
| 8 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 9 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 10 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 11 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 12 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 13 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 14 | But from then onwards , they were always asking me to join , but by then I had already opened a young wives ' belonging to the church . |
| 15 | Though the association was quick to change its policy , women , led by Josephine Butler , broke away to form the separatist Ladies ' National Association ( LNA ) . |
| 16 | It soon rumbled the furry frauds ' deceit . |
| 17 | This allowed the government to allocate sums of money to LEAs for particular educational purposes , thus reducing the local authorities ' control over how the block grant was spent . |
| 18 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 19 | MR PADDY Ashdown yesterday staked the Liberal Democrats ' claim to offer British politics a ‘ moral voice ’ for the 1990s , building on its stance over Hong Kong and the Vietnamese refugees . |
| 20 | A small , happy man with a white beard , he always wore the traditional grocers ' apron . |
| 21 | The magnificent fight which the Spanish workers have waged against the Fascist … has been the wonder of the world … . the Council organized a Mass Meeting in Bradford to place the true facts before the public , and also opened a Spanish workers ' Relief Fund in conjunction with the TUC Solidarity Fund … . |
| 22 | A decree pardoning EPL guerrillas who wished to be reintegrated into civilian life was approved by the government on Jan. 22 ; it also covered the Revolutionary Workers ' Party ( PRT ) , which was to lay down its arms on Jan. 26 , and the militant indigenous Quintín Lamé Commando . |
| 23 | Yet , and here Burgess partly reflects the early sociologists ' emphasis on the new forms of collective organisation , this area of deterioration ‘ is also one of regeneration , as witness the mission , the settlement , the artists ’ colony , radical centers all obsessed with the vision of a new and better world' . |
| 24 | The larger second-class stations would also have a separate ladies ' waiting-room . |
| 25 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 26 | In this respect , it is useful to pay attention to what we might now term the human rights ' issue as one examines the handling of public — private morality in the Irish constitution . |
| 27 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 28 | The media would still be able to cover current stories but within a longer-term , in-depth perspective so that Ethiopia or the Lebanon , Westland or nuclear disarmament do not simply occupy a few weeks ' worth of front page/main bulletin coverage per year . |
| 29 | Years later , when a leading local councillor , she regularly attended a national Museums ' conference . |
| 30 | We regularly win the local schools ' evening league . |