Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reducing the emphasis on ‘ selling him up ’ and making it more possible for creditors ' claims to be met out of a debtor 's future income was one of the main objectives of the Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Sir Kenneth Cork which was appointed by the Government in 1977 and reported in 1982 . |
| 2 | It would be possible for officers ' secretaries to deal with external calls and most people do dial out direct anyway . |
| 3 | Without such understandings of why teachers do what they do , it is then possible for researchers ' and policy-makers ' own interpretations to flood into the vacuum . |
| 4 | And , as is usual for Managers ' meetings , there was no one there to shout ‘ stop ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps , accustomed to Francis , she 'd become unquestioning about others ' ways of life . |
| 6 | They would learn that in this violent age , not one in 10,000 gives a damn for prisoners ' rights . |
| 7 | A lot of women do this , they 're very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they , they lay the foundations , right from the very beginning , of boys ' growing up to think of women as kind of household servants . |
| 8 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 9 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 10 | She used not to be so censorious of others ' behaviour but her own betrayal had , she thought , seared her more than she understood . |
| 11 | Laboratory rodents that spontaneously develop autoimmune type I diabetes did so at a much lower frequency when fed a synthetic chow free of cows ' milk protein , and recently a peptide antigen called p 69 was identified on rat insulinoma cells which cross reacts immunologically with a similar sequence present in bovine , but not human or rat , albumin . |
| 12 | However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage . |
| 13 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government are being amazingly generous with taxpayers ' money from 1993 onwards , when although the minimum 20 per cent . |
| 15 | But the bad things , and of course , Rousseau 's solution to the problem of order was quite different from Hobbes ' . |
| 16 | The court has held that the certificates remain final , even though the inspector has been negligent , on the basis that they are no different from experts ' decisions : Alfred C Toepfer v Continental Grain Co [ 1974 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 11 . |
| 17 | ‘ A bit different from Liveseys ' place , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | Methods of curriculum planning are inseparable from teachers ' thinking about what has to be planned , and the arrival of the National Curriculum is dictating a much more considered and long-term approach than was adopted in at least some of the classrooms we visited ( NCC 1989 , 1991 ; Alexander et al . |
| 19 | Images which parallel food and the body have long been the staple diet of art ; as the body became increasingly edible in Godfrey-Isaacs ' earlier work , so the current series also has its ‘ food appeal ’ . |
| 20 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 21 | Yeah , er when 's the P A free in freshers ' week next year ? |
| 22 | We also made links with the region of in Poland to develop tourist strategy and also links with a number of cities who were very interested in citizens ' participation and are going local initiative . |
| 23 | To plan the strategy Jones and Palmer got together on 7 April with Bart Czirr , a physicist from the University , and Johann Rafelski , a theorist who had been interested in Jones ' work on piezonuclear fusion since 1985 , and who was about to move from Cape Town to the University of Arizona . |
| 24 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 25 | He said the survey also showed that people believed ‘ the experts ’ had already made up their minds and were not interested in others ' views . |
| 26 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 27 | I am interested in readers ' experiences of this phenomenon , their encounters with the players and the stories that have grown up around some of the longer serving recruits . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the data derived from this study about caring is obviously dependent upon respondents ' perception of their status as either carers or non-carers . |
| 29 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 30 | A complicity indistinguishable from lovers ' happiness ran through the two of them , not localized but suffused through their frames , like alcohol after exercise . |