Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friends ' constituents should be aware of the exact commitment made by those who are to manage the trust once it is established on 1 |
| 2 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 3 | Fortunately my fellow walkers ' feet came out in sympathy . |
| 4 | Western PTTs are setting up in Eastern Europe , often initially to support their multinational clients ' operations there . |
| 5 | Similar findings were made by Partin et al who reported that 86% of their 74 patients <3 years of age presented with pain , 97% had stool withholding , and 71% were impacted . |
| 6 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 7 | They walk ponderously in their crimson velvet hoods and black caps , ostrich plumes nodding on their old men 's heads . |
| 8 | On Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18 the Railway will stage another of its popular Enthusiasts ' Weekends . |
| 9 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
| 10 | Perhaps the rail planners could take a leaf out of their Victorian predecessors ' books . |
| 11 | The two banks then make the necessary adjustments to all their individual customers ' accounts . |
| 12 | Since the implementation of the relevant sections of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act , social services authorities have integrated the previously separate system of approved schools and remand homes for delinquent children with their ordinary children 's homes . |
| 13 | The hope that the restriction imposed by the 1976 Act which limited defendants ' rights to produce evidence in court of the rape survivor 's past sexual relationships with persons other than the defendant would cause newspapers to lose interest in reporting rape cases was a hope that was totally misplaced . |
| 14 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 15 | • Bankers who need to understand better their corporate clients ' requirements and to respond with appropriate products and services , |
| 16 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 17 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 18 | The classroom should also be one in which all children 's ideas are valued . |
| 19 | At least two of my contemporaries ' mothers were asked where their newborn babies ' tails were . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , social workers are very hesitant to use this section and patients do , albeit rather infrequently , continue to deteriorate in the community because of their nearest relatives ' wishes . |
| 21 | The prosecution asked for costs to be awarded against the defendants but the request was refused — NatWest has paid all its former employees ' costs . |
| 22 | Tommy Armour is proud of its top-of-the-range ladies ' clubs , the 845s Silver Scot , and having tried a set I can understand why . |
| 23 | Then there are those raised in a hothouse of their own parents ' ambitions . |
| 24 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
| 25 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 26 | Very often PR consultancies only give their own executives ' names , but there are times when a journalist will want to " go straight to the horse 's mouth " and a contact within the client company can be very important . |
| 27 | Dealers have felt a need to deprecate their own firms ' values , to disassociate themselves from them . |
| 28 | Once they recognized that their own groups ' discussions were not very different from others , they began corporately to own the curriculum of the new school . |
| 29 | Such women decided they could only begin to tackle their problems through their own women 's networks . |
| 30 | ( viii ) Each site could only access its own employees ' records . |