Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 2 | Diana Gittins has concluded that couples whose worlds increasingly centred on the home , rather than on the culture of the workplace or on the spouses ' respective circles of friends , most frequently achieved their ideal family size . |
| 3 | We have seen that the social collectivities often known as ‘ classes ’ in British society are reducible neither to economic classes in the Marxist sense nor to the sociologists ' occupational classes . |
| 4 | But since her captivity , a babel seethed around her constantly , the cries and demands of Sycorax , the commands of the men on guard over her , the hammering and planing of the pales for the stockade and for the settlers ' other plans ; the shouts of the men from the boat-building on the beach , the barking of orders to bondsmen brought from England on the ship that had returned , the yells of slaves whom they had loaded in Dahomey or Yoruba on the journey back , and roped and chained and put to work under the whip , and the bellowing laughter now and then of the overseer , a tall African who had been taken out of chains himself to hold the lash over his fellows . |
| 5 | There are rights of appeal against decisions of the Law Society and of the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal . |
| 6 | This strategy is based upon the work of Slobin and Welsh ( 1973 ) , and upon the authors ' own extensive research regarding the imitative abilities of mentally handicapped children . |
| 7 | This is in principle an ideal source and in the investigators ' initial work has already displayed important and robust relationships between post tax prices , commodity expenditures and other household characteristics . |
| 8 | The Bank has an estimate based on past experience of daily and seasonal patterns , and on the banks ' declared requirements , of likely changes in the note circulation . |
| 9 | Now Oslear is wondering if the truth will ever come out — especially as ICC supremo Sir Colin Cowdrey has failed to comment on match referee Deryck Murray 's report and on the umpires ' official findings . |
| 10 | The ‘ information ’ part of Vredeling , which would apply to employers with 1,000 or more employees , would require that information relating to the business as a whole , and to the employees ' own particular subsidiaries or establishments , be supplied annually to employees ' representatives . |