Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minister visits endangered birds ' sanctuary |
| 2 | I 'm not sure , now I come to think about it , whether the Act covers Civil Servants ' emotional states and behavioural quirks . |
| 3 | It drops central bankers ' insistence on centrally-set rules for members ' budget deficits . |
| 4 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 5 | She dismisses hormonal explanations of sex differences because they relate poorly to behaviour , and criticizes cross-cultural studies ' attempts to establish the universality of sex differences for not taking full account of cultural variety . |
| 6 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
| 7 | The Colne Valley Museum exhibits restored weavers ' cottages , and has a weaving workshop and clogger 's shop . |
| 8 | Environmental decline further limits small farmers ' and pastoralists ' ability to accept externally generated innovations . |
| 9 | They wait in turn while the ā gri , dressed in white , measures other households ' offerings . |
| 10 | The industry blames successive governments ' lack of interest in vocational training ; perhaps the new training plans announced by the prime minister this week will help to fill the gap . |
| 11 | This also possesses veneered rhomboids ' and rhomboids with filled triangles ( both on the arms of saltires ) as well as the particular floral device which comprises four heart-shaped petals with convolutes ( at the centre of some of those roundels enclosed by squares ) . |
| 12 | Tittle ( 1986 ) sees adolescent girls ' increasingly negative attitudes and lowered expectations of success in maths as an outcome of experiences in and outside education , and a filter for many performance differences in adolescence . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that the global , often UK-originated course is likely to become less important as product becomes increasingly country , market and syllabus-specific , it is the UK 's TEFL industry that underpins British publishers ' claim to superior authenticity , experience and expertise . |
| 14 | A $4000 annual tax on a rich family raises poor families ' income by only $1000 each because of their large numbers , but how much beyond that $1000 would you accept as a tolerable loss ? |
| 15 | For the first time , the Treasury 's Economic Prospects includes independent forecasters ' views in addition to Treasury forecasts . |
| 16 | Hewlett takes Micro Resources ' phone company software products |
| 17 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |
| 18 | Cultural woman-centred feminism attacks dominant cultures ' concerns with logic and aggression , which it sees as inextricably connected with their maleness . |
| 19 | The new Bernheim plant represents United Distillers ' continued commitment to investment in its Bourbon brands . |
| 20 | Cadbury Schweppes 's policy reimburses eligible recruits ' furniture removal charges , legal expenses and estate agent 's fees but states that : ‘ New employees do not qualify for — bridging loans , disturbance allowance , travelling expenses , hotel expenses . ’ |
| 21 | These bands are laid down in the state budget , and a committee of ministerial under-secretaries vets nationalized industries ' collective agreements to make sure that they conform to pay limits . |
| 22 | But their source of stability is usually a close link to a main bank which , especially in Germany and Japan , monitors management and , in effect , underwrites other banks ' loans . |
| 23 | Wave of strikes upsets Yugoslav authorities ' austerity drive . |
| 24 | IBM builds Other Peoples ' equipment into its systems . |
| 25 | Tremendous midweek pleasure catches raised competitors ' hopes for Sunday 's Dunelm Denis Fox Memorial open on the River Wear around Durham City . |
| 26 | From two of its existing operations — Software Sciences , which produces the CHAMPS hotel management system and Datasolve , which manages other companies ' data facilities — the new company has taken the name Data Sciences . |
| 27 | A shift system that improves junior doctors ' working conditions is unlikely to save money . |
| 28 | It makes woman-centred feminists ' hypotheses about differences between women seem tokenistic . |
| 29 | The change in business leaves National Networks ' application to the Department of Trade & Industry for a UK public telecommunication operators licence in the balance . |
| 30 | But psychology generally views qualitative methods ' social validity as less important than their lack of reliability . |