Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 2 | Streamlined trams provided separate drivers ' cabs , 1930s . |
| 3 | Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy . |
| 4 | The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death . |
| 5 | In Bettelheim 's search for material that would give ‘ access to deeper meaning ’ ( 1976 , p.4 ) he found currently-available children 's books ( in the 1970s ) superficial : ‘ most of these books are so shallow in substance that little of significance can be gained from them ’ ( ibid . |
| 6 | They visited two booksellers ' shops , looking for a volume of poems by the Aberdonian Latin poet , Arthur Johnson , who had been Principal of the Marischal College . |
| 7 | Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ . |
| 8 | He and the others got six months ' hard labour — the repression in 1835 was much gentler than in 1830 because the problem was so limited . |
| 9 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 10 | Neither party offered a workable plan to rescue Serbia 's crumbling economy , but the SPS attracted strong workers ' support by promising continued full employment . |
| 11 | On 18 October , therefore , the British government turned down the new fare proposals from American operators , while the CAA rejected British Airways ' request . |
| 12 | The first stage of this research , now completed , explored social workers ' reactions to this method of assessment . |
| 13 | Equally , we noted some heads ' resistance to developing their own professional understanding and their failure to engage with current educational issues . |
| 14 | In the first sentencing in the Milan affair , Mario Chiesa , the ( Socialist ) administrator of a Milan old people 's home , received six years ' imprisonment on Nov. 29 for embezzling L 6,000 million , some of which went to party funds . |
| 15 | Identified by police witnesses as the ‘ Somers Town Boys ’ , the two youths charged with assault received six weeks ' hard labour and a month 's hard labour . |
| 16 | This surplus lifted disclosed shareholders ' funds to HK$52.7 billion . |
| 17 | Even in Lancashire , where in Blackburn , Preston and Burnley as many as one-third of women continued to work after marriage , the Cotton Factory Times could print a piece of verse which to all intents and purposes ignored married women 's double role : ‘ How Sweet it is when toil is o'er/To sit upon the hearth once more/To whistle , sing and sweet converse/With the sweetest queen in universe/In homely way ’ . |
| 18 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 19 | In late 1925 he was one of twelve leading communists arrested and tried on charges of sedition and incitement to mutiny , for which he received twelve months ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | Carl Aarvold , later a judge , scored two Lions ' tries and Doug Prentice , later secretary of the Rugby Union , converted them . |
| 21 | Following the talks a joint communiqué reiterated both governments ' adherence to the protocol signed in Damascus in August 1987 , and in addition Turkey committed itself to releasing more than the current 500 cubic metres of water a second to Syria . |
| 22 | A fishing agreement was considered necessary by February 1991 , when the squid fishing season began , because the squid fishing grounds straddled both countries ' fishing zones . |
| 23 | In 1987 an unpublished report , known as SHARPEN ( Scottish Health Authorities Review of Priorities for the Eighties and Nineties ) , pointed out the deficiency of local authority provision for mentally ill people and noted local authorities ' particular responsibilities under the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 . |
| 24 | Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed . |
| 25 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 26 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 28 | The Commune indicated to Marx that it was possible to have all public servants ‘ elected , responsible and revocable ’ and paid working men 's wages . |
| 29 | With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions . |
| 30 | Fears about the conjunction of ‘ race ’ and sex shaped these films ' interrogation of White female sexuality in the years immediately following the last major wave of Black settlers in the mid to late 1950s . |