Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minister visits endangered birds ' sanctuary |
| 2 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure , now I come to think about it , whether the Act covers Civil Servants ' emotional states and behavioural quirks . |
| 4 | Nippon Electric has 10 years ' experience in making numerical control equipment and computerised design and manufacturing systems . |
| 5 | Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix . |
| 6 | It drops central bankers ' insistence on centrally-set rules for members ' budget deficits . |
| 7 | Jim is now the lucky owner of his third gold spray valve and now has three years ' supply of vegetarian burger bites . |
| 8 | Neither is it sufficient to obtain a correct definition ( e.g. " a triangle has three sides ' ) as this does not guarantee that the pupils will not reject an obtuse angled triangle as a triangle . |
| 9 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 10 | Roy has held many management positions and has 36 years ' experience in carpets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At present the Chancellor has nine days ' prior warning of the crucial retail price figures . |
| 13 | He has twenty winners ' medals — more than any other player in the club 's history . |
| 14 | She has several years ' experience of teaching in the Sudan . |
| 15 | Sean Clarke has several years ' experience with Knockdene where he was formerly an after sales service advisor . |
| 16 | Director of specialist support for New Possibilities Fay Gerrie said she took the original decision to sack Mr Reid , who has 28 years ' service at the hospital , because he was the charge nurse and therefore responsible for the villa . |
| 17 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 18 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
| 19 | The Soviet-US joint venture Telekos is now providing a voice-mail service in Moscow : according to Alexander Gromov , Telekos deputy director , the system runs off a computer installed at the Moscow city telephone exchange ; the mail box has two minutes ' memory for input messages and half a minute for output messages ; the subscription is 1000 roubles hook-up fee plus 2,300 roubles per month . |
| 20 | The Colne Valley Museum exhibits restored weavers ' cottages , and has a weaving workshop and clogger 's shop . |
| 21 | Project 2 contains 2½ hours ' music . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's linked with business , with the fluctuations of the stock exchange , ’ explains Paul Smith , who has 20 years ' experience of designing for men . |
| 23 | National Breakdown has 20 years ' experience of getting emergency help to stranded motorists . |
| 24 | Project 1 contains 1½ hours ' music . |
| 25 | The law says 16 years ' wrongful imprisonment for murder is worth £100,000 damages . |
| 26 | Environmental decline further limits small farmers ' and pastoralists ' ability to accept externally generated innovations . |
| 27 | They wait in turn while the ā gri , dressed in white , measures other households ' offerings . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |