Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling . |
| 4 | With some types of account a depositor can withdraw a certain amount of money on demand , but will have to pay a penalty of so many days ' interest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 7 | Ranged with his mother , his sisters , he was cowed ; he felt , not just some months ' Tommaso 's junior , but a child again , like his little brother Franco , also quiet and busy with his food , as if he had not yet made that transition from the mother 's arms to the father 's side that should duly occur at thirteen . |
| 8 | The people will decide in not many weeks ' time . |
| 9 | Not all departments ' spending could be cash limited . |
| 10 | It shows that not all labourers ' cottages were flimsy hovels and that families in this group could aspire to reasonable comfort . |
| 11 | It sound more Writers ' Guild than Society of Authors , but maybe we can all do it . |
| 12 | At the end of September the group split up ; determined to get away from things English , they now decided to explore different areas , thinking they would learn more German if they gave up each others ' company . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman would know if he had addressed as many farmers ' organisations as I have that the first question farmers ask is how we can deal with the uncertainty of the MacSharry proposals , which now confront us . |
| 14 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 15 | Researchers also wanted to discover how much viewers ' attitudes are affected by the context in which a sexy scene turns up on the home screen — and the timing . |
| 16 | When your Mum finally returns from shopping , how many weeks ' pocket money does she have in her purse ? |
| 17 | How many years ' experience does she recommend that an editor clock up before attempting to master the use of apostrophes and capitalisation ? |
| 18 | How many days ' hire ? |
| 19 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 20 | More moss is collected and then more spiders ' webs until a platform has been formed . |
| 21 | Mr Purves revealed on March 13th that the bank 's property holdings had been revalued in the group 's balance sheet at HK$13.8 billion ( $1.8 billion ) — over twice most analysts ' estimates . |
| 22 | It will be seen from this extract that at a baptism sometimes both parents ' names were recorded , but occasionally only the father 's . |
| 23 | On the first false start , the tape caught round some horses ' necks . |
| 24 | It is , however , harder to explain purely in the context of the theory of contestable markets why some firms ' eurobond operations have continued to be successful while others have been unable to establish themselves , why there has been no significant decline in market concentration over time despite continual new entry , and why profitability has declined so steeply . |
| 25 | The German government , forced to cover currency losses on Deutsche Aerospace 's work for Airbus , the pan-European aircraft consortium of which it is a member , is reluctant to put up yet more taxpayers ' money to back Mr Schrempp 's ambitious and controversial scheme to build a 130-seat regional airliner outside the Airbus consortium . |
| 26 | Yet more listeners ' letters being forwarded to her . |
| 27 | After Alan Duff , very few teachers ' books would have stood a chance . ’ |