Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words ‘ do not resuscitate ’ would be added to their medical notes , and updated every 24 hours or whenever the patients ' condition or circumstances changed . |
| 2 | The issue is now set to go to a full board meeting , a measure of how the directors ' proud notions of consensus have withered over this issue . |
| 3 | The steering group , under the chairmanship of of the Bank of England , is considering how the regulations ' statutory requirement on employers to train relevant staff will be met and will oversee production of centralised training packages . |
| 4 | In the diary Mr Springhall reports how the emigrants ' luggage was searched going aboard for intoxicating liquor , and how the ‘ stress of weather ’ kept the ship in port before before setting sail . |
| 5 | The table shows how the agencies ' ratings of three large Italian banks , Banca Commerciale Italiana ( BCI ) , Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino , have diverged since last year . |
| 6 | In order to understand how the Occupiers ' Liability Act 1957 operates we must consider who may be an occupier and who constitute lawful visitors . |
| 7 | Concentration on character may be argued to allow critical misconstruction about how the plays ' dramatic action works . |
| 8 | Griffin et al. ( 1986:148 ) emphasise how the employers ' tactics varied in their subtlety . |
| 9 | ’ The Queen writes she is nervous as to how the Dolls ' House opens and asks questions about the hall door . ’ |
| 10 | The Queen 's worry as to how the Dolls ' House opened was a perfectly reasonable one . |
| 11 | I wanted to know how the parties ' policies actually affect people 's daily lives . |
| 12 | At this stage it 's difficult to know how the parties ' proposals may differ . |
| 13 | That is how the subjects ' reasons figure in the justification , both when they are correctly reflected in a particular directive and when they are not . |
| 14 | TIM RENWICK The chat show sideman and musical chameleon tells how a gondoliers ' strike nearly sunk Pink Floyd … |
| 15 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 16 | That was not to be and the financial problems facing USA rugby at this time were in a way mirrored on the field where the Eagles ' shortcomings , rather than any great brilliance on Canada 's part , determined the result with the 23 point margin between the teams the biggest in the 16-year history of the event . |
| 17 | This danger exists also in secondary schools where the governors ' report must include information in a prescribed form in relation to public examinations — in effect , a publication of results . |
| 18 | Emily stayed quiet , treading water and wondering where the others ' breath for talking came from . |
| 19 | The pool was just bel just beside the harbourmaster 's office just a little further where it is now , cos what we had , what we call the yard , that 's where the engineers ' workshops was , the carpenters ' shop , which is still there and then little further up th up the Newcut East there was the pool place for the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 20 | In the gardens the grass glistened with dew , which left imprints where the soldiers ' feet had passed . |
| 21 | One year I took my family to Spain , where the inhabitants ' behaviour was impeccable , but I had rashly arranged to come back via France . |
| 22 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 23 | Having been dismissed from parade , the children race downstairs to where the Rangers ' 22 horses and Ponies are housed in splendour . |
| 24 | We had proved in a recent elections and even in the general election , that where the pensioners ' movement was strong , the election results were more positive for candidates in support of our aims . |
| 25 | Tautology also appears to occur sometimes in personality inventories where the characteristics ' can be boiled down to ‘ attitudes favourable to the commission of crime ’ ( or ‘ anti-social ’ acts ) ; that is to say , ‘ criminals are people who hold pro-crime values ’ . |
| 26 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
| 27 | Another example of the importance of time periods is provided by the decision in Hendy Lennox ( Industrial Engines ) Ltd v Grahame Puttick Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 485 where the sellers ' terms of trading contained a retention of title clause which entitled them to repossess goods " in the case of default in payment by the purchaser " . |
| 28 | Also , they note the more marked occupational stability of manual workers in West Germany as a result of the greater prestige of industrial employment , in contrast to France where the employees ' aim on achieving promotion or becoming successful is typically to leave the ranks of the working class and become office workers or independent craftsmen . |
| 29 | There were times when the writers ' arrogance or pomposity had the opposite of the intended effect of taking the often hapless victim down a peg or three . |
| 30 | Meetings with liaison groups began to falter early in 1985 when the teachers ' dispute began to affect school activities other than actual classroom teaching . |