Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries .
2 The world beyond Europe began to be opened up with voyages to India , China and America , and this transformed men 's horizons in a way fully as dramatic as space travel in our own time .
3 Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay .
4 But the Phoenix King had lent Tyrion the services of a unit of White Lions and these bold warriors ' knowledge of their homeland was to prove invaluable .
5 James Caunce , Mayor of St Helens , said : ‘ I joined the march because my father and grandfather were both miners and we need to fight to preserve Parkside and all those men 's jobs .
6 Much of this and several other candidates ' arguments are not convincing because their remarks reveal contradictory opinions and a lack of principles .
7 But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year .
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