Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the salesperson must not only know his products ' benefits but the types of situation in which each would be appropriate . |
| 2 | I could only attribute my captors ' sudden change of attitude to the fact that they were pleased to be getting rid of me . |
| 3 | My fourth point is that some of you may be persuaded to regard as a good reason for non-intervention the fact that the child , if it survives , will so disrupt its parents ' lives as to destroy the marriage , or will end up in some institution , in a form of living death . |
| 4 | The final decision will only relate to where the girl lives and does not affect her parents ' other rights . |
| 5 | If they were not , in my view they were wrongly decided and they should not influence your Lordships ' decision . |
| 6 | Most tenants of local authorities , new towns and housing associations can now take in lodgers if they wish and they do not need their landlords ' consent to do so . |
| 7 | Crooked bosses can easily steal their workers ' pension cash MP 's revealed in a shock report . |
| 8 | This will make it possible for more informed advice to be given to parents of mentally handicapped children about how they can best assist their children 's language development . |
| 9 | Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education . |
| 10 | A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours . |
| 11 | On the debit side the church also witnessed a high proportion of reversions , particularly among their young people through the secularising influence of their English education and the fact that they did not share their parents ' nostalgia . |
| 12 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 13 | Those who did not fulfil their clients ' wishes lost income . |
| 14 | The thin cotton of their clothes could not hide their bodies ' warmth from each other , and she became aware of a curious lassitude that seemed intent on relaxing her tense muscles . |
| 15 | He wound up the interview and was rising to say goodbye when Catherine , sounding shy , asked Peter Yeo if she could possibly use their ladies ' room . |
| 16 | And to cap it all , in my front garden , a taxus that has already outgirthed Sir Cyril Smith was making a takeover bid for my car runway , so that friends would smilingly open their drivers ' doors only to get a mouthful of evergreen . |
| 17 | It wo n't take over your teaching and it wo n't do your students ' learning for them . |
| 18 | you read the Guinness Book of Records or watch ‘ Mastermind ’ on TV or ca n't do your children 's homework or lose at ‘ Trivial Pursuit ’ . |
| 19 | But when they get a little older , they will cover their bodies up and the boy shall never again see his sisters ' beauty . |
| 20 | We have facts about a charitable trust using ACE schemes to actually do my members ' jobs , do my members ' jobs in the home help service , do my members ' jobs in the social services — driving people about when they are not insured ; they do n't have PSV and as far as they 're concerned , ‘ so what ? ’ |
| 21 | Grandmothers could therefore join their children 's households to fulfil a direct need as child-minders . |