Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
2 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
3 | What can the United Kingdom do to help , and in what context does President Yeltsin 's pronouncement about some form of United Nations ' supervision offer good news for the future ? |
4 | Another reason for American houses ' strength is the spread of ‘ book-building ’ as the preferred way of selling international equities . |
5 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
6 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
7 | This provoked a warning from the Russian Supreme Soviet on July 17 that inclusion in Baltic states ' legislation " of articles which make discrimination on grounds of nationality the norm " could lead to temporary economic sanctions against Estonia , which had a 33.3 per cent Russian minority . |
8 | According to this thesis , the distribution of responsibilities left the GLC and MCCs with too little to do , but with access to large rating resources : ‘ This generates a natural search for a ‘ strategic ’ role which may have little basis in real needs ' ( DOE 1983b:3 ) . |
9 | Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres . |
10 | All MPs with private members ' bills scheduled for this session have already got their bills under way following normal procedures . |
11 | But when you come to something that says one or more closures of elderly persons ' homes in the east of the county , I do n't think it 's quite fair for people saying we have a right to be told on that , but that it 's insufficiently explicit for them to , to respond to consultation , and to bring their particularly cases forward . |
12 | Several colours of dilute designers ' gouache fed into an Automatic pen , on 120lb Arches NOT paper . |
13 | Such private dealings , however , are not likely to occur with any frequency in modern solicitors ' partnerships . |
14 | A recent discovery has shown that some North American cliff swallows actually carry eggs from their own nest to other swallows ' nests nearby . |
15 | ICL is to offer a shrink-wrapped version of Unix SVR4 on its so-called ‘ Spring Collection ’ of deskside and desktop Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers and servers launched recently , and says it may offer that implementation on other manufacturers ' PCs too . |
16 | Ironically , part of the British problem was due to the success of the OEEC and EPU : under their efforts sterling had become convertible in most circumstances into other countries ' currencies , leading to the end of Britain 's restrictions on sterling which in the past had enabled it to protect its markets in the sterling area . |