Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 2 | They argue that in some cases parents ' contribution depends on their ‘ tenacity , willingness to fight for their rights and a belief in their children 's educational capacity ’ . |
| 3 | In some cases doctor 's dentist 's or other appointments will have been made for the Thursdays when the bus failed to arrive . |
| 4 | In some cases Labour 's quangos merge existing ones , or replace well-established bodies . |
| 5 | In a few months Rose 's home place and Moran 's house were almost interwoven . |
| 6 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 7 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 8 | For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares . |
| 9 | Over the next few years Coatings ' coil operations in will join the new joint venture . |
| 10 | It suggested that in some places students ' fees could be raised and that the Ministry and local authorities should take account of students ' contributions when deciding the level of aid ( Recommendations 16 , 17 ) . |
| 11 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 12 | OVER the past few weeks Spain 's government has spared no effort to defend the peseta within Europe 's battered exchange-rate mechanism . |
| 13 | According to some sources Egypt 's acceptance of the Baker plan indicated that the PLO leadership had accepted that it must play an " invisible " role in the initial stages of the peace process . |
| 14 | In some ways Perrett 's findings can be seen as an extension of the results on prestriate cortex in that higher order properties of objects are being encoded , using information from representations of lower order properties . |
| 15 | In some ways Albania 's isolation has advantages . |
| 16 | For a few seconds Folly 's vivid imagination conjured up a fantasy in which the girl she had rescued had been named by a father desperate for a son … |
| 17 | According to some reports Sisavat 's departure related to charges of corruption and nepotism . |
| 18 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 19 | In such cases workers ' resistance may be defensive and more obviously oppositional . |
| 20 | In such circumstances England 's goal difference could give them an advantage over , say , Denmark in Group One or The Netherlands in Group Four , both of whom complete their fixtures next month . |
| 21 | As a commentary on such sentiments Eliot 's poem reads with a vengeance . |
| 22 | In spite of such warnings Baldwin 's desire for a settlement was fortified by the views of the Governor of the Bank of England , Montagu Norman , who was with him , and of Auckland Geddes , the ‘ political ’ Ambassador in Washington . |
| 23 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 24 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 25 | It is notable that it was Bunting , in his generation the only British emulator of Pound , who was most confident and insistent that in these matters Pound 's immediate master was American , the Walt Whitman of ‘ Out of the Ocean Endlessly Rocking ’ . |
| 26 | In these circumstances Townesend 's own architectural identity is not very clearly defined . |
| 27 | Next consider the situation when a switch is closed at time to connect a steady e.m.f. to a series circuit comprising just capacitance C and resistance R. In these circumstances Kirchhoff 's voltage law gives and taking the Laplace transform with the aid of relations ( 11.20 ) and ( 11.31 ) , the corresponding equation is obtained . |
| 28 | During these years Japan 's new leaders embarked on a programme of radical reform aimed at transforming Japan into a modern industrialized nation capable of dealing on equal terms with the nations of the West , and throwing off ‘ unequal ’ treaties viewed as a national insult . |
| 29 | What is undoubtedly clear is that during these years Henry 's power was still steadily advancing , though most modern writers tend to create the false impression of a king entirely preoccupied with the awkward domestic problem of the quarrel with Thomas Becket . |
| 30 | Personally , she could n't stand homes but these days Jack 's interests were her interests . |