Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The terrorist group included a youth of about fifteen with bleached hair and it is thought that glimpses of this boy were used skilfully to support the terrorists ' claims . |
2 | The Lincolns destroyed vital food crops and staging areas thus slowly sapping the bandits ' will and strength . |
3 | Despite little apparent enthusiasm within the profession for such a development , the Council duly produced the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 and the Solicitors ' Indemnity ( Incorporated Practice ) Rules 1989 . |
4 | The external assistance received was still far below the levels needed not only to implement the Sandinistas ' social policies but also to sustain the costs of destabilization and war . |
5 | The club is large enough to accommodate the Inspirals ' fans , but not a lot more . |
6 | Tone greatly aids the researchers ' understanding of Creole grammar , which appears less simple than was thought . |
7 | Many teachers were ill prepared to teach language , and so might present the subject in an unenthusiastic manner , so repressing the pupils ' natural interest in language . |
8 | While happy enough to accept the Czechs ' omission of repeats in these earlier works , surely they were unwise to omit that of the exceptionally concise and concentrated exposition of the first movement of the Ghost , Op. 70 No. 1 . |
9 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
10 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |
11 | Looking for them in BMA House only emphasises the juniors ' ignorance of the enormous amount of work put in on their behalf by all sections of the profession . |
12 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
13 | This will make it extremely hard for some players to get more than two or three of the 11 games in Australia — and that would not be long enough to evaluate the newcomers ' test qualifications . |
14 | Moran felt so outside their circle of concentration that he had to resort to tiptoeing into the room in an exaggerated parody of someone trying to enter unheard but his only audience was the boy , and that not often , and laughter only lifted the girls ' heads from their books for a forgotten moment . |
15 | ‘ But you have only used the cottagers ' convenience as an argument , ’ said Duncan . |
16 | When bankers say that a company is ‘ leveraged ’ , they mean that the company 's debt greatly exceeds the owners ' equity or share in the company . |
17 | And the effect was not only to strengthen the Reformers ' parliamentary position . |
18 | So assume the councils ' needs stay at £40 billion ; it is hard then to see any single tax footing such a large bill . |
19 | As the papacy 's powers increased so did the cardinals ' revenues , for they were involved in general administration and often legal duties and would expect gifts and payments for services . |
20 | The rulers of Chad , Togo and Mali boldly disagreed ; so did the Americans ' friend , King Hassan of Morocco . |
21 | He especially dislikes the economists ' commitment to efficiency . |
22 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
23 | A whole series of studies , he admits , appear to demonstrate that there is a broad agreement concerning the relative worth of different occupations , which apparently supports the functionalists ' contention that it is possible to identify those positions which are most important in society . |
24 | Femininity becomes a fun , liberating force rather than oppressive force , allowing Burman to constantly challenge the viewers ' preconceptions of Asian femininity . |
25 | The programme of black capitalism resurgent was summed up in the wall slogan , apropos attacking the Koreans ' stores : ‘ Day One , burn them out . |
26 | The faded youth only exists within the realm of the poem , his or her traces have otherwise vanished , necessarily so to make the verses ' truth actually true . |
27 | We only have the subjects ' external behavioural indicators ( verbal or non-verbal ) of their experiences and we have no way of validating these indicators . |
28 | However , if the GPs were to act as Health Maintenance Organizations ( HMOs ) and have a budget to cover the total care for their patients , a Type I system would give them considerable freedom of referral , but would not necessarily increase the patients ' freedom . |
29 | Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view . |
30 | Not really ; the time period over which the returns are expected to arrive should not affect the investors ' overall requirements . |