Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
| 2 | This Government is rarely so generous with the taxpayers ' money , espe cially to people who seek out an in vestment opportunity which does n't involve paying UK tax . |
| 3 | His own brawny , Mancunian accent was obviously akin to The Chameleons ' Mark Burgess , and combined with the haunting guitar riffs of Gedge 's early songs , it all became very uncanny . |
| 4 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 5 | As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work . |
| 6 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
| 7 | He was also largely instrumental in the Casuals ' home ground becoming The Oval for a number of years . |
| 8 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 9 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 10 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
| 11 | The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface . |
| 12 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
| 13 | A scheme , more successful from the settlers ' point of view , was that in part of Ecuadorian Amazonia , where a ‘ settlements first ; roads second ’ philosophy prevailed . |
| 14 | However , in the real world there is an additional concept of efficiency , which takes cognisance of the fact that real firms are never as technically efficient as the theorists ' firm . |
| 15 | And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics . |
| 16 | These are directly congruent with the beings ' activities : whether they cause harm , in the form of disease and mishap , or whether they help to set things right following such a damaging occurrence . |
| 17 | Still active in the students ' movement , I continued to struggle for recognition of our oppressions as women , lesbians and gays , and people with disabilities . |
| 18 | Those most involved also experience most feedback and are more aware of the governors ' and the LEA 's response to the report . |
| 19 | Frequent television viewers were significantly more aware of opinion poll findings , more aware of party leaders ' activities , more aware of second-rank politicians ' activities , and more aware of the parties ' campaign themes . |
| 20 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
| 21 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 22 | Dyer 's doings are the same as but also different from those investigated by the fretful man he resembles , just as Hawksmoor 's investigative Scotland Yard is the same as but also different from the architects ' department of that name attended by Dyer . |
| 23 | When the time came , she was similarly firm about the boys ' schooling . |
| 24 | They are also concerned with the parents ' attitude to the school and the teachers , their ideas about the causes of educational achievement , and their contacts with the school . |
| 25 | Exit polls are now a vital part of election night specials — but they are also fatal to the programmes ' capacity to grip an audience through suspense . |
| 26 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 27 | The audience is blithely unconcerned as the rats ' rancid pink tongues stretch out to lick gently at pink heels . |
| 28 | Hutchinson was also active in the Ironmongers ' Company of London , of which he had purchased the freedom . |
| 29 | The enquiry service is the most important of the clearinghouses ' information dissemination methods and all the national clearinghouses operate one . |
| 30 | Definitely it was Eddie 's day and with his fiftieth birthday just past the ‘ auld yin ’ as he described himself also admitted that he was now eligible for the Seniors ' Tour ! |