Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DES survey of Foreign Languages Courses for Adult Students while praising the quality of students ' work as well as the commitment of the majority of teachers confirmed that 52% of foreign language teachers had no training to teach a foreign language at all — although some of them held a general qualification to teach adults ( DES 1988 ) . |
| 2 | In charting the progress of fans ' careers , two types of data have been used . |
| 3 | In this final section I would like to attempt to answer some of the questions raised in the introduction , using the evidence of teachers ' views expressed in the survey to support my argument . |
| 4 | As president of the USSR , he signed a special decree , instructing the Congress of Peoples ' Deputies to ‘ place the property of the CPSU under protection ’ . |
| 5 | Deselected by his party for abusing the register of members ' interests . |
| 6 | But , even in defeat , the unions had succeeded in imprinting the notion of workers ' power on the minds of the public . |
| 7 | The considerable expansion of the assisted places scheme is one of the factors contributing to greater inequality , entailing the use of taxpayers ' money to swell the profits of private schools . |
| 8 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |
| 9 | Thus , conditions have been put forward limiting the distribution of voters ' preferences ( e.g. , Plott , 1967 ) , but these are also very restrictive . |
| 10 | The pressure group was commenting on suggestions that the Government is considering the abolition of pensioners ' prescription exemptions . |
| 11 | Dawe 's research demonstrating the importance of pupils ' first language competence to mathematics , as well as the need for pupils to understand mathematical ideas in English , highlights the importance of both languages for children 's progress . |
| 12 | To give a brief example , recording the airflow from speakers ' mouths can show how successfully they are producing the aspiration appropriate for , and . |
| 13 | When we were first creating the model for girls ' work , those of us who are white , both lesbian and heterosexual , developed work that was racist , that is , based on our ideas about how sexism affected white girls , and what kind of provision white girls might need . |
| 14 | Cutting auditors ' noses off to spite clients ' faces There are no cogent arguments for radically extending the regulation of auditors ' independence |
| 15 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 16 | In summary , our understanding of basic cognitive processes suggests that top managers can have a powerful effect on organization behaviour and direction by reducing the variety in subordinates ' schemas ( core values ) . |
| 17 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |