Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to secure such a reduction , national guide-lines were issued in October 1990 , which identified a number of offence-specific factors that would justify a committal , but only where a magistrates ' court feels that its sentencing powers are insufficient . |
| 2 | Only where the multinationals ' power has been harnessed have substantial gains in income-elastic goods been achieved . |
| 3 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 4 | What is more , the funny side of John 's situation is made explicit in the tale by lines which indicate the fundamentally urbane and clerkly bias of the humour of the fabliau : The laugh is on the uneducated man who thought his common sense better than the clerks ' sophistry ( 3448 – 91 ) . |
| 5 | The aim of marking is , of course , not just to assign a number to a piece of work but to give constructive feedback so that the students ' work steadily improves . |
| 6 | All added up to subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form , with minimal trading and scarcely any money circulating , so that the assessors ' valuation of livestock — and household effects — may well have been frankly notional . |
| 7 | Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves . |
| 8 | The rain had cooled everything down and the Beans ' kitchen was cold and depressing . |
| 9 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 10 | Many tournament organisers miscalculate entry levels with the result that adjacent areas are crowded together and the competitors ' safety is imperilled . |
| 11 | In the third tribe , the women looked after all the children together and the men 's lives revolved around the women who did all the trading and decision-making , the boys would join the men who were very artistic and gentle , when they were of age , while the girls were encouraged to be competitive and strong . |
| 12 | Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors . |
| 13 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 14 | So long as the animals ' behaviour is meticulously noted , she argues , empathy and intuition can be invaluable in interpreting it . |
| 15 | In her attempt to ascertain why anorexia nervosa is a girls ' rather than a boys ' disease , Selvini Palazzoli emphasises the manner in which the adolescent girl ‘ is exposed to lewd looks , subjected to menstruation , about to be penetrated in sexual embraces , to be invaded by the foetus , to be suckled by a child , etc . ’ |
| 16 | If she is over 60 when her husband dies , she will usually receive a retirement pension rather than a widows ' pension . |
| 17 | For a producers ' rather than a consumers ' perspective on agendasetting see Hetherington , 1985 ; Blumler and Gurevitch , 1986 ; Blumler , Gurevitch , and Nossiter , 1986 and 1989 . ) |
| 18 | Lower-class women who did not come into the black or immigrant categories would be expected to use the general waiting-room , rather than the ladies ' , which was largely the preserve of the well-dressed middle class . |
| 19 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 20 | Control is vested in their hands rather than the shareholders ' . |
| 21 | Ahdaf Soueif in this paper felt that men were such a sorry , beleaguered lot anyway that the books ' ’ combative polemic ’ , with French in particular going wildly over the top , was likely to prove counter-productive . |
| 22 | Some teachers will , of course , say when asked , " it did n't work " , but in a surprising number of cases this turns out to mean , not that the students ' learning or involvement was less than had been predicted or hoped for , but that the exercise for one reason or another was too difficult to set up . |
| 23 | All these economies were necessary not because the women 's husbands were unwilling to share the money but usually because none was available . |
| 24 | The cold wind of competition is blowing down the Bahnhofstrasse , Zurich 's bank-strewn high street , just as the bankers ' other problems were growing anyway . |
| 25 | It needs to be emphasised , however , that just as the clergy 's specialist knowledge of theology , spirituality , worship and pastoral care is to be respected , so too are the musician 's particular skills and qualifications . |
| 26 | She escaped to her office as soon as the Blowers ' left , grabbing herself a cup of coffee on the way . |
| 27 | The cattle are about to be sold , but they wo n't move any further than the farmers ' field . |
| 28 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 29 | The thoughts of Cailliet and Bédé point forward to the importance of communion with the dead in Four Quartets , with their intense , visionary moments ; more immediately the Frenchmen 's stress that , like primitive thought , ‘ Le symbolisme , en effet , requiert tout d'abord une détente de l'attention ’ , is paralleled in The Use of Poetry by Eliot 's presentation of poetic creation not as an act of concentrated attention , but as a relaxation , or removal of a normal barrier . |
| 30 | The action starts with the women 's game at 7.00pm and the men 's follows at 8.30pm . |