Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Slicing through Gleouraich 's slopes are some incredibly well-constructed stalkers ' paths . |
2 | Any legislation " submitted by individual legislative council members " ( effectively private members ' bills ) would require the endorsement of " more than half of two groups of members , one selected by the functioning organizations and the other by various constituencies and by the election committee " . |
3 | A SURVEY has shown one of the most popular girls ' names in Essex is Chelsea . |
4 | With only 180 sheriffs ' officers throughout Scotland , Simpson acknowledges that the collection process would be thrown into chaos if the non-payers persisted with their rebellion . |
5 | A wide variety of events are planned including the ‘ ICM Thespians ’ in a playlet , talks on the changing role of the County Court , why so few directors ' disqualifications , and legal updates , in addition to social events and , of course , the AGM . |
6 | Blessed with a perfect 9st 5lb race riding physique , he is immune from the lettuce leaf diet and stamina-sapping sauna sessions which are the bane of so many jockeys ' lives . |
7 | The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling . |
8 | The Law Society and the Legal Aid Board have agreed to introduce a Scheme which is designed to ensure that only competent solicitors ' representatives advise suspects at police stations . |
9 | This model also emphasises not only general practitioners ' voices but all local voices , including those of nurses , community leaders , voluntary groups , and others . |
10 | Although libraries ( especially young peoples ' libraries ) are not the havens of quiet of folk myth , they can cater for such children if staff are trained to recognize and respect them . |
11 | If it had ever existed , the cosy Whitehall corridor was long gone , though Agnes sometimes wondered what it would be like to concern herself with frustrating only other countries ' spies . |
12 | A successful description of a self-portrait may not be difficult , but an illuminating interpretation may call on many references , especially other artists ' pictures of themselves . |
13 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
14 | What I would say , if there 's any doubt , if a mother has any doubt about her baby 's feet she should see the doctor and he will refer if he thinks necessary so most babies ' feet can look quite odd at times and they will hold them in strange positions . |
15 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
16 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |
17 | Men 's gloves with short fingers do not equal women 's gloves . |
18 | It shows that not all labourers ' cottages were flimsy hovels and that families in this group could aspire to reasonable comfort . |
19 | But it is unlikely that C. Itoh will take over other creditors ' debts , the traditional role in Japan of a main bank . |
20 | Thus two machinists ' jobs are lost , but CNC machine tools as they are presently used require support from white-collar workers who write the programs which drive them and from maintenance workers to keep them running . |
21 | But is not the Prime Minister 's decision to opt out of the social charter — — ’ opt out ’ were the words that he used — an admission that , after 12 years of Tory rule , the economy is not as sound , robust and healthy as the Government try to claim but is so fragile that it can not support the most basic workers ' rights that will be enjoyed in the rest of Europe ? |
22 | It may well be that the sons of barons and knights jostled with Sceva and Ollo in the markets of the twelfth century ; and it is likely enough that there were more rich men 's sons than poor men 's sons wearing the alderman 's robes . |
23 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
24 | In the period immediately before the First War , the growing political militancy of the Women 's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) , along with the publication of feminist books and pamphlets on sexuality , radicalized the older , more traditional women 's organizations . |
25 | Since no outside authority — whether the employers , the journeymen or the union — ever gratified women 's skills with the respect accorded to men 's , women compositors must have found it hard if not impossible to think of themselves as skilled , or to have even a semblance of the mentality of the skilled journeyman and union member . |
26 | Precious stones and precious metals were once familiar artists ' materials . |
27 | John Major yesterday dashed insurers ' hopes that the Government would underwrite claims for bomb damage . |
28 | Lots of the slicker , more citified proles ' sons had this extremely short hair by '68 after having had long hair . |
29 | Our luxury three-screen complex shows a range of popular children 's and adult films in the afternoons and evenings plus specially selected children 's movies every Saturday morning at 9.30 . |
30 | Indirectly this problem reveals something of the organisation of craft activities in early Anglo-Saxon England , but we must be wary of categorising the period on the basis of the more influential members ' activities alone . |