Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 2 | 6 Individual voters are rational and informed ; they have an appreciation of their own best interests ; and so they give the parties programatic support and vote according to the parties ' past or prospective action in office in the light of their own knowledge and interests . |
| 3 | The Bank of England was granted leave to intervene in the plaintiffs ' action on 7 May 1991 . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've come for the children 's parade , ’ he said softly , motioning her to a seat . |
| 5 | We 've talked about the Women 's Movement so far . |
| 6 | " Father , have you come to complain about the girls ' absence from school ? " |
| 7 | On 6 September however , the Evening News carried a report of a clash between women on different sides in the dispute : " we understand the differences of opinion between the women who have amalgamated with the men 's society and those associated with the women compositors , readers " and monotype operator 's union found lively expression in a wordy warfare " , |
| 8 | In circumstances in which the opinion leaders and policy-makers in adult education have responded to the women 's movement at all , it has been to co-opt feminism into their platitudes , whilst at the same time seeking to deflect and defeat the radical intention of women 's liberation as it might be applied in adult education and society generally . |
| 9 | The polytechnics have responded to the universities ' attempts to recruit CDP members by demanding a merger deadline — probably April 1993 . |
| 10 | As for discipline , I have to work within the Children 's Act . |
| 11 | Possibly this was not the intention of Parliament for " restored " seems inappropriate to describe the situation where goods have come into the police 's possession . |
| 12 | The Arabs from Spidex , who set up the deal , have vanished with the Iranians ' money and , they suspect , their arms shipment . |
| 13 | Up to 73 Yanomami Indians have been killed by a group of garimpeiros , illegal miners who have moved into the Indians ' reserve in the Amazonian forests on the borders of Brazil and Venezuela . |
| 14 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 15 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 16 | MANCHESTER United have emerged as the bookies ' clear favourites to lift the Premier League title . |
| 17 | What will happen to nurses who have trained at the taxpayers ' expense in the national health service but who , increasingly , find themselves unable to get a job after three years ' training ? |