Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a range of success rates is given , this indicates that there were several assessment items for a particular skill or task and that performance covered a fairly wide band — an immediate warning that a criterion statement based on such tasks will not tell us much about pupils ' achievements . |
| 2 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 3 | He also announced cautious proposals to revive the economy , promising a relaxation in current wage controls and increased subsidies for housing , for health services , and especially for the agricultural sector [ see below for farmers ' protests ] . |
| 4 | In other counties ( Oxfordshire was an early example ) the linking together of teachers ' centres into a county network means that high quality work produced anywhere in the county can be disseminated on requirement to other schools . |
| 5 | Looking back at the face of the bank , they could see that it was in fact dotted thickly with martins ' holes . |
| 6 | Their netting stakes were no more than 2 feet ( 60 centimetres ) in length , to slip nicely into poachers ' pockets for concealment . |
| 7 | It is often said , and rightly , that a lot of thought goes into defendants ' rights , but not enough into victims ' rights . |
| 8 | But she never seemed to make the connection between these skills and the sickness notes , apparently in parents ' hands , which her pupils brought to school after prolonged absences of two or three weeks . |
| 9 | 3 Media offences which are triable only in magistrates ' courts . |
| 10 | The IoD 's Peter Morgan adds : ‘ It 's only in companies ' boardrooms that decisions are made or not made , opportunities taken or lost . |
| 11 | What you should photograph depends entirely on editors ' requirements . |
| 12 | The ‘ information ’ part of Vredeling , which would apply to employers with 1,000 or more employees , would require that information relating to the business as a whole , and to the employees ' own particular subsidiaries or establishments , be supplied annually to employees ' representatives . |
| 13 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 14 | Fitting in to others ' expectations , e.g. spouse , friends or colleagues . |
| 15 | Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads . |
| 16 | The film is technically impressive ( Academy Award-winning animator Derek Lamb directs ) but more admirably it zeroes in on kids ' interests without patronizing them . |
| 17 | The film is technically impressive ( Academy Award-winning animator Derek Lamb directs ) but more admirably it zeroes in on kids ' interests without patronizing them . |
| 18 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |
| 19 | There is a special commission which organizes the daily menu , using the prison food stocks , invariably rice and beans , together with additional food brought in by prisoners ' relatives and solidarity groups . |
| 20 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 21 | Teaching in Cirencester 30 years ago , his obsession was not with pupils ' achievements , but with their learning . |
| 22 | It included notes and coin in circulation with the general public ( but not in banks ' tills ) , and sterling private sector sight deposits in banks . |
| 23 | However , it does appear that the notion of language teachers joining a profession with its own history does not figure largely in tutors ' conceptions of their work , that English tutors do not see ‘ language ’ as something requiring separate attention , and that all tutors tend to play down aspects of language policy or language in society . |
| 24 | Third and finally , spillovers may be most extensive in high R&D sectors simply because firms may have to do extensive R&D on their own in order to benefit from the knowledge which spills over from rivals ' efforts . |
| 25 | When they turned seven , the boys had to go away to boys ' schools . |
| 26 | Over the coming months , the cuts in interest rates since last September will be filtering through to homeowners ' pockets , and this should help to lift consumer confidence , Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's distributive trades panel , said yesterday . |
| 27 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 28 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 29 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 30 | In addition , some were convinced that family allowances would result in lower wages , although the danger of that happening was thought to be considerably less if they were financed by the state and not by employers ' contributions . |