Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cater for the public 's need for insurance or pension provision . |
| 2 | In the kinds of society which anthropologists usually study , where kinship links of one kind or another ramify throughout the individual 's social world , this contrast is often explicit . |
| 3 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 4 | These relate to the writer 's current research in the Design Discipline at the Open University . |
| 5 | They all belong to the Land 's End-John O'Groats Association , set up to monitor and encourage trips between the nation 's two extremities . |
| 6 | Knowledge of geography , people and processes all contribute to the officer 's ‘ experience ’ , the virtue endorsed by the longer-serving officers . |
| 7 | Increasing volumes of boat traffic along the river , pollution , industrial activities along the river bank , siltation , and incidental mortalities from fishing all contribute to the baiji 's decline . |
| 8 | Press releases , press conferences , radio and television interviews , speeches and articles all contribute to the Council 's profile . |
| 9 | Press releases , press conferences , radio and television interviews , speeches and articles all contribute to the Council 's profile . |
| 10 | Nor does it avoid all blame for the City 's other failings , including those at the stock exchange and Lloyd 's . |
| 11 | The former depend upon the plaintiff 's awareness of his condition and his capacity to feel pain . |
| 12 | These would include such features as : allowing the child to initiate a high proportion of interactions : providing conversational bridges — " turnabouts " as Kaye and Charney ( 1980 ) call them — which both respond to the child 's previous utterance and invite him or her to say more ; making reference predominantly to the child 's or to joint activities ; and responding to the child 's utterances with extensions , which both confirm the acceptability of his or her contribution and help them to pursue the topic further . |
| 13 | Though different in detail , these ideas are similar , in that they both derive from the clock 's observable characteristics and behaviour . |
| 14 | Jean and Becky Joplin from Yorkshire — mother Jean , 42 , and daughter Becky , 19 , both work in the family 's marketing business . |