Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] ' [noun] " 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 | I believe that this is absolutely vital , not only for teachers ' sanity , but also for the health of the education system as a whole . |
| 4 | Derek Andrews should be sampling but G. stands in during Andrews ' holidays . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Paish has been brought in as Leeds ' fitness expert by boss Howard Wilkinson . |
| 7 | ‘ Let me in for Chris ' sake and I 'll tell you . ’ |
| 8 | Only after Pericles ' death did the rot set in , when the people insisted on following so-called " demagogue revealing word — like Cleon , who evidently did not know how to behave , but curried favour with " the rabble " by calculated populist gestures : " He was the first " , wrote Aristotle , " to indulge in shouting and scurrilous abuse from the rostrum , and to address the people with his clothes tucked up like a common labourer , whereas all his predecessors had spoken with dignity and properly dressed . " |
| 9 | erm I remember a few years ago when there was a great panicky shutting down of teachers ' training colleges . |
| 10 | The cacophony within the house seemed to last for several minutes , but was perhaps only of seconds ' duration . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Accordingly total expenditure E in the period under consideration was composed entirely of consumers ' expenditure C , and total income Y in the community was identical to this expenditure . |
| 13 | Looking back at the face of the bank , they could see that it was in fact dotted thickly with martins ' holes . |
| 14 | Their netting stakes were no more than 2 feet ( 60 centimetres ) in length , to slip nicely into poachers ' pockets for concealment . |
| 15 | It is often said , and rightly , that a lot of thought goes into defendants ' rights , but not enough into victims ' rights . |
| 16 | As with the Supergrid , the leading electrical engineering consultants were generally more adventurous and expressed surprise at the conservatism of the BEA , though , in order to keep their power station consultancy contracts , they went along with headquarters ' design policy . |
| 17 | But a Northumbrian Water spokesman said yesterday the confusion had arisen because Middlesbrough Council had chosen not to continue collecting water payments along with tenants ' house rents . |
| 18 | Duncan Shearer ( Aberdeen ) would then be left on the bench along with Hearts ' John Robertson while Roxburgh 's faith is invested in an enticing partnership . |
| 19 | In short , our singular approach and our racism , along with heterosexuals ' inability to take heterosexism seriously , combined to close down the possibility to focus on heterosexism at these conferences in a generalized way . |
| 20 | And then Skerrett was shown the red card and Platt was sin-binned along with Saints ' Nickle after a flare-up . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 3 Media offences which are triable only in magistrates ' courts . |
| 23 | The IoD 's Peter Morgan adds : ‘ It 's only in companies ' boardrooms that decisions are made or not made , opportunities taken or lost . |
| 24 | Yet the trust was a new legal institution , developed only in Augustus ' reign . |
| 25 | Suffering and the cross nonetheless come together in Jesus ' prayer of suffering love : ‘ Why hast thou forsaken me ? ’ |
| 26 | Soon , the skaters were cutting patterns together in Philips ' father 's garage . |
| 27 | What you should photograph depends entirely on editors ' requirements . |
| 28 | This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The King addresses him in verse to start with , but then comes down to Parolles ' level in prose , the medium in which Lafeu and Diana also address him , recognizing his inferior ethos ( All 's Well that Ends Well , V.iii.238ff . ) . |