Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 32 | Some employers ' organisations have put forward alternative suggestions . |
| 33 | The most sumptuous of all the decorations was undoubtedly a huge Chinese Ming-dynasty celadon porcelain vase embellished with elaborate and highly wrought ormolu mounts incorporating ring-toothed lions ' heads of around 1760 . |
| 34 | The success of the American system in producing excellent research is very near the front of the German researchers ' minds . |
| 35 | These groups are called different fishes ' names , such as octopus , eel , cod , shark and salmon . |
| 36 | Roy Palmer has replaced John Holder who has been rested from the panel of umpires for this summers 's Tests and One-Day Internationals against Pakistan . |
| 37 | Drake has whistling flight note , ‘ sostmieu ’ , not unlike sound of some ducks ' wing-beats ; duck has a laughing quack , ‘ ak-ak-ak … |
| 38 | Scottish solicitors ' accounts in English legal aid cases are not normally taxed by Taxing Masters in England , but under an informal arrangement are referred for scrutiny to the Central Committee Taxation Department . |
| 39 | To allow us to compare community care plans without appearing overly judgemental , and to structure our discussion of the part played by care programming in different authorities ' policies for mental health , the rest of this section employs the biological concepts of assimilation and adaptation . |
| 40 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 41 | Well does n't it ma , I mean when you do you 'll be away with your different groups ' points and he 'll be |
| 42 | His claims for communications were , in fact , much more modest than the English lecturers ' claims for English . |
| 43 | An opinion poll in the Sunday Times showed that 80% of the population backed Britain 's military involvement , and 60% thought it was worth the loss of British servicemen 's lives to regain Kuwait . |
| 44 | These are piers built out over the harbour , and indicate old merchants ' houses , where ships could unload directly into the premises . |
| 45 | Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors ' offices . |
| 46 | 14.3.6 Surveyors ' valuations |
| 47 | are there proper operators ' chairs ? |
| 48 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |
| 49 | Next month , I will be having a look at some readers ' requests . |
| 50 | Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits . |
| 51 | Some branches ' totals appear better than they should ; Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion benefited from having the Youth Conference and National Eisteddfod in their areas so they received a disproportionate number of HQ recruits . |
| 52 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 53 | • Scotland 's Sunday Mail managed to satisfy quite a few fishkeepers ' preoccupations by combining beer and fish in not just one but two stories . |
| 54 | Under the old system , which included rent in supplementary benefit so that tenants could pay it themselves , many tenants were able to shuffle their weekly budgets — this week buy some kids ' shoes , next week the rent , this week the gas bill , next week the rent . |
| 55 | No doubt when Wrexham see what a joke he is , he will be back at ‘ The Tip ’ licking a few supporters ' backsides and begging for his job back . |
| 56 | Some editors decide whether the first set of comments have been met and send for fresh reports only for major revisions , whereas others seem to obtain fresh referees ' reports routinely . |
| 57 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 58 | This could illustrate the degree of convergence among different readers ' intuitions about particular texts . |
| 59 | Among the next few months ' highlights are Borderline 's production of Dario Fo 's Mistero Buffo at the King 's Theatre with that man Robbie Coltrane again ( Feb ) ; The Art of Print , a survey of European Print Masters at the Hunterian Art Gallery ( Jan-Apr ) ; a new production of Pirandello 's Enrico Four at the Citizens Theatre ( Feb ) ; Steven Campbell 's first one-man show in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre ( Mar ) and Freaks by the Companie Genevieve de Kermabon at Tramway ( Mar ) . |
| 60 | The MMC ( 1980 : 97 ) found that in some guards ' depots , twelve-hour days were routinely worked , and that , apparently , ‘ those staff who wish to work their Sundays mostly have the opportunity to do so every other Sunday without strict regard to the numbers actually required to operate train services ’ . |