Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 2 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 3 | Later Friedman ( 1975 ) shifted position somewhat in that he allowed for employers ' mistakes concerning the behaviour of the real wage rate : the ex post real wage need never deviate from its market clearing value for fluctuations in the level of employment around its natural value to occur . |
| 4 | She campaigned for prisoners ' rights as secretary of the Women 's Prisoners ' Defence League from 1922 ; edited Prison Bars in 1937–8 ; and was the Republican party of Ireland candidate in the local government elections of 1936 . |
| 5 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 6 | His pictures were stubbornly not nice : he called for carpenters ' pencils of rough graphite rather than the refined Fabers , crayons of a denser black , and later squeezed his colour messily and thickly from the tube direct when he was in the mood . |
| 7 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |
| 8 | So was the way in which the Treasury department , Congress and federal deposit insurers jumped on thrifts ' investments in junk bonds . |