Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new tiers of membership , which become available this month , are intended to add some teeth to the X/Open 's existing system vendor , independent software vendor and user councils , described by X/Open chief technical officer Mike Lambert as pure ‘ talking shops . ’ |
| 2 | The move is seen as a way of helping to get the Argentinian privatisation programme off the ground and to make some inroads into the country 's foreign debt , which currently totals some $60billion . |
| 3 | Lucenzo made the request , and was about to place some notes in the man 's hand when she stopped him , and both men looked at her askance . |
| 4 | Ron Wood invited Buddy to stay on stage for his own short set and then Gary Moore strode on once again , his keyboard player teasing the audience with a few notes from the Stone 's classic Satisfaction , hinting at what was to come . |
| 5 | Corbett nodded and pushed a few coins into the purveyor 's slack hands . |
| 6 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 7 | Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings . |
| 8 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 9 | The same meeting also approved the Conveyances of the land from the Bolney Estate Company and Mr K.K. McKenzie , and the Trustees were authorised to pay over the sums of £3,000 and £1,000 respectively ( this is several weeks after part of the course had been opened for play ! ) , and Mr J. C. Walker , the Treasurer , was asked to draw up some proposals for the Club 's bye-laws . |
| 10 | Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ . |
| 11 | A rather crudely drawn frontispiece depicts several scientific instruments and some objects from the society 's museum collections . |
| 12 | Maybe I can put some doubts into the governor 's mind about its admissibility . ’ |
| 13 | Not bad for four and a half months of the University 's time , I suppose . |
| 14 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 15 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 16 | There was also the presence of land-girls on neighbouring farms to remind Wendy of her own few months in the Women 's Land Army at St Andrews , where many Polish troops were stationed . |
| 17 | Each shot is accompanied by a few paragraphs about the subject 's history , or why he chose to photograph it . |
| 18 | Sometimes there will be partial reliance , the buyer relying in some respects upon the seller 's skill and judgment and in others upon his own . |
| 19 | IT 'S TIME to name some winners in the diary 's annual Squishy Satsuma Awards for Christmas card initiative . |
| 20 | I mean there are obviously some aspects of a school 's policy that are relatively easily changed . |
| 21 | By conferring the status of unquestionable truth on some aspects of the parent 's relation to the infant , she narrows the domain within which the social can have effects . |
| 22 | A mutant copy , spread throughout a gene family , may alter some aspects of the animal 's form or physiology ( phenotype ) . |
| 23 | Despite the reservations expressed by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) about some aspects of the CEGB 's safety case for the Sizewell-B PWR , the inspectorate 's reaffirmation of the reactor 's potential licensability means that the overall safety case will probably not be hard to establish . |
| 24 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 25 | Some aspects of the historian 's task will be constant . |
| 26 | By way of illustration , Table 7.2 shows how it applies to some brands in the men 's toiletry field . |
| 27 | For the programme pick-up , Basil Hilton and Tony Geluch were using a single condenser microphone suspended centre stage and only a few feet above the conductor 's podium . |
| 28 | When he was only forty feet from the Ilyushin , with his right wing now pointing straight up , its tip just a few feet from the airliner 's belly , Duncan pulled back on the left engine and then let the drag pull the plane level . |
| 29 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
| 30 | Such grants had some advantages from the crown 's point of view , for in the event of the failure of direct heirs the lands and title would revert to the crown and would augment the resources of royal patronage , as happened with the Audley , Clinton and Ufford inheritances ; but the underlying reason for limiting descent to heirs male was the wish of the nobility to preserve the integrity of their inheritances and to ensure that the title descended with the land . |