Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | We were particularly interested in the practices ' subjective assessments of the impact of this change on practice management and patient care . |
| 32 | Moreover , he was becoming increasingly annoyed at the Communists ' blatant attempts to maximize their influence wherever it mattered — in , for example , the army and the administration — and to dictate strategy . |
| 33 | He remembered his wife mentioning to him that some immigrants had moved into the street , and , because he knew that neither Donna nor Mrs Stych would bother to call on immigrants , he felt vaguely sorry for the newcomers ' isolation . |
| 34 | The Labour Party has an economic policy which is almost indistinguishable from the Tories ' . |
| 35 | Those Jesuits were probably quite big in the Indians ' history . |
| 36 | It is quite common in the futures ' market to sell one obligation to deliver specified commodities repeatedly during a trading day . |
| 37 | Franco was fully aware of the monarchists ' discontent . |
| 38 | You could say that , somehow , he made the most convincing of the would-be-leaders ' speeches . |
| 39 | Years spent at university are financially unrewarding from the parents ' perspective . |
| 40 | The question doubtless uppermost in the vendors ' mind will be price and the purchaser 's response when pressed on this point should be carefully considered in advance . |
| 41 | Apart , they could be breathtakingly sharp on the others ' shortcomings but together their individual selves gathered into something very close to a single presence . |
| 42 | However , in other situations Customs have deemed that there is a non-monetary consideration in addition to the price paid and that VAT is therefore due on the goods ' normal selling price . |
| 43 | An introductory placard , for example , tries to distance the gallery from a transcendent notion of history by stressing that exhibits are the product of selection and choice , and therefore representative of the organisors ' views . |
| 44 | As long ago as 1978 , the Scottish Hospital Advisory Service reported from observation visits to long-stay hospitals throughout Scotland that even when adjustable beds were provided , they were frequently found at a height too high for the patients ' safety and unfortunately , this is often still true . |
| 45 | It would have been all too easy for the residents ' views to weigh lightly compared to the supposedly more objective professional assessments but , avoiding this pitfall , the author looked for ways of tapping the experiences of the residents themselves and sought to complement these with staff assessments of social and psychiatric functioning . |
| 46 | Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ? |
| 47 | It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support . |
| 48 | DERBY striker Tommy Johnson was n't too worried after the Rams ' run of seven successive away wins ended at Brentford . |
| 49 | As well as being very particular about the horses ' condition the old horsemen were equally concerned about their appearance . |
| 50 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 51 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 52 | They 're afraid of their fears and they feel that by talking about it the children will actually have more problems , so children , being very aware of the adults ' fears , will not talk . |