Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Colonel Hawthorn told me he puts a lot of stock in men 's brasses . ’ |
| 2 | Doubts about banks ' capital reserves , which include stock in clients ' companies , and property-related bad debts may continue to undermine confidence in the market as a whole . |
| 3 | Those who stress sisterhood rather than equality value a great deal in women 's distinctive approach as it now is ( and has been in societies much less egalitarian than ours ) and do not want it lost in the melting-pot of assimilation . |
| 4 | Feminist psychology has also tackled previously neglected areas of female experience which are relevant to its efforts to get women a better deal in men 's worlds . |
| 5 | The ancient Spartan cult paid Eros great homage , regarding him as a great creative force in men 's lives , the builder of dynasties and the establisher of friendships , as well as the creator of sexual desire . |
| 6 | And McCall , the driving force in Rangers ' 2–1 European Cup win at Elland Road , said : ‘ Leeds have great character and ability and I hope they go on to do well this season , but it will be difficult for them to pick themselves up from this . |
| 7 | THE LEYS , who have been a considerable force in schools ' rugby in recent years , prospered on the Austrian tour to earn five wins and a couple of defeats from seven games . |
| 8 | But ITV is already reshaping its schedules to build its peak-time ratings : investment in children 's programmes and single documentaries has been cut . |
| 9 | As an organisation we believe that children in these circumstances may well need support but they 're also a real resource to our society , an investment in children 's welfare and children 's education is a sound investment in the country 's future . |
| 10 | Lots of readers have written in complaining about the lack of uniformity in children 's clothes sizes . |
| 11 | The gain in consumers ' surplus minus the loss in producers ' surplus is equal to RFGS . |
| 12 | The result in viewers ' minds can have been little other than confusion and fear , instead of the excitement that there should have been . |
| 13 | One student , responding to allegations of the Mayor of Washington 's homosexuality , exhibited a portrait of Chicago 's first ever black mayor in women 's lingerie and day-glo colours at the School 's degree show , which was promptly raided by council officials with police support . |
| 14 | ‘ There is confusion in men 's minds and corrosion in their souls , ’ he announced , ‘ The moral force of Christendom can make itself felt in the conduct of nations . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed recent surveys by the National Foundation for Educational Research have revealed that there is often a great deal of confusion in pupils ' minds , particularly as so many educational programmes for history now employ dramatic reconstruction . |
| 16 | It emphasises the huge element of mystery and uncertainty in voters ' behaviour , which makes them spurn the most fluent campaigns and ignore the gaffes and trifles which dominate television news bulletins and front pages . |
| 17 | These visions would appear , unsummoned , while she sipped cups of strong tea in clients ' bedsitters … |
| 18 | Luce opened her eyes to find that a burly stranger in workmen 's overalls was at the wheel , and she was lying cradled against Michele 's chest , her head on his shoulder . |
| 19 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 20 | She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before . |
| 21 | 2.38 There is no authority on the appropriate principles to be adopted in apportioning the amount recovered , but the practice in widows ' claims is to award the greater part of the total sum awarded to the widow on the assumption that she will maintain the children as long as they are dependent and to award comparatively small sums to the children themselves . |
| 22 | However , studies have shown ( Hood , 1962 , 1972 ; Parker et al. , 1999 ) that the chief formative influence on sentencing practice in magistrates ' courts is not the law or the advice received from other professionals in court , nor even the way similar cases have been decided by that particular court in the past . |
| 23 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |
| 24 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 25 | Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools . |
| 26 | Parents in my constituency are anxious that teachers should be properly remunerated because teachers with low morale are bad teachers , and they are particularly concerned that there might just be a slight possibility of a Labour Government next year , with a resultant cut in teachers ' real pay , as happened when Labour was last in office . |
| 27 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 28 | The reason why a cut in members ' allowances was not in our budget is I think we did n't consider it and we did n't consider it because the figures involved are so small that it was n't a matter which was , as I say , worthy of financial comment , although I accept it has a political dimension . |
| 29 | Another cut in the ODR will not trigger a corresponding cut in banks ' funding costs . |
| 30 | From a cross-cultural perspective , Freedom from Violence , shares their sources of inspiration and common threads of agreement about what needs to be done to confront the violence in women 's lives in all its aspects : physical , social , economic , cultural and legal . |