Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day , while we were exercising , Brian kept watch under the door for the guards ' feet as I tapped out , ‘ We are Brian Keenan and John McCarthy . |
| 2 | Again , it was the challenge to acknowledge God 's presence in other peoples ' lives as well as our own . |
| 3 | It 's important to follow manufacturers ' instructions as stone cladding differs considerably in weight , thickness and shape . |
| 4 | Perhaps they assume that if they are the customer they will be liable for their clients ' obligations as principal . |
| 5 | Subsection 2(f) specifically empowers regulations to be made which authorise the retention by firms " of so much of clients ' money as represents interest " . |
| 6 | This would give him eighteen months ' salary as compensation for loss of office , and his pension was not to begin until the eighteen month period had elapsed . |
| 7 | The Admiral who had been appointed as the boss of Playboy UK got a golden handshake of nearly £12 million for four months ' tenure as the firm was taken over . |
| 8 | In such a case ? one must still examine all the circumstances of the case in order to discern what was the parties ' intention as to the passing of property . |
| 9 | Something of the MLs ' agony as they fought their way towards the quays can be seen in the diagram on page 41 . |
| 10 | IN TRYING to split off nine-tenths of ambulance drivers ' journeys as ‘ non-emergency , ’ Mr Kenneth Clarke attempts to separate the inseparable . |
| 11 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 12 | Ian liked the names and was content to scratch the animals ' heads as , emitting a warm goaty smell , they gazed up at him with calculating yellow eyes . |
| 13 | In all experiments , subjects ' speed as well as accuracy of decision will be recorded to allow a detailed analysis of the perceptual and memory processes involved . |
| 14 | Last night , United announced that Edwards was taking leading counsels ' advice as to the validity of his agreement with Knighton . |
| 15 | She describes her readers ' profession as ‘ dynamic and exciting ’ , all of which presents her with the problem of writing content erudite yet lively , weighty but not pompous . |
| 16 | The scheme , drawn up after pilot projects by a steering group under Duncan Graham , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , had the support of all the teachers ' and heads ' unions as well as the local authority employers . |
| 17 | Whatever may be its points of similarity to , or difference from , other countries ' villages as social institutions , it has very special qualities of picturesqueness , not of course to be confused with quaintness . |
| 18 | Souness will conduct tonight 's team talk at the pre-match hotel and then take a seat in the directors ' box as he starts a five-match touchline and dressing room ban . |
| 19 | The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital . |
| 20 | After all , even if the papal documents which he mentioned contained no statements about the primacy , the whole history of the archbishops ' powers as described in Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which Lanfranc had recalled at length , rested on papal letters conferring the care of the whole country on Archbishop Augustine . |
| 21 | My fourth point is that some of you may be persuaded to regard as a good reason for non-intervention the fact that the child , if it survives , will so disrupt its parents ' lives as to destroy the marriage , or will end up in some institution , in a form of living death . |
| 22 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 23 | Parents ' fury as sex romp barn fire boyfriend cleared |
| 24 | There , I learned , the churchyard was closed to burials , although her ashes might be interred — not in her parents ' grave as I had asked — but in the church 's garden of remembrance . |
| 25 | Para parents ' tribute as coroner defies the IRA |
| 26 | Parents ' joy as Becky Blandford regains consciousness . |
| 27 | It was a minute to midnight when Joan and John reached her parents ' house as the bells were beginning to ring out the old year . |
| 28 | Parents ' anguish as boy admits 50 thefts |
| 29 | Parents ' anger as autistic boy is expelled . |
| 30 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |