Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessary for the purposes of the present case for your Lordships ' House to decide whether the Bourgoin case [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 2 | It is also worth saying that spouses provide invaluable support during their partners ' periods of office and , in some cases , are very much involved in district society affairs . |
| 3 | Glancing up , she caught Ross 's nod and warm smile of approval at the efforts she was making to reassure Emma and Sophie about their parents ' condition . |
| 4 | So why is Brix making so little noise about her collaborators ' credentials ? |
| 5 | There has also , theoretically at least , been a shift from ministerial to civil service accountability , arguably mirroring the fact that ministers today rarely accept personal responsibility for their officials ' mistakes ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 6 | It should go without saying that questions about the purposes and character of children 's learning are of fundamental importance not just to teachers but also to those who undertake the task of constructing the policies and strategies through which teachers ' ideas and practices are shaped . |
| 7 | All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health . |
| 8 | Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes . |
| 9 | In 1971 the Industrial Relations Act was passed , which made trade union privileges conditional upon registering and satisfying the Registrar that their internal rules contained minimum safeguards for their members ' rights . |
| 10 | Though Ata'i 's biographies , written seventy-odd years later , are not devoid of such anecdotes and descriptions , the striking feature in them is the minutely detailed factual data about his subjects ' careers . |
| 11 | Janssen care a great deal about their customers ' people , too . |
| 12 | They are not lumps of clay awaiting the potter 's wheel of their parents ' influence to fashion their personalities , but equal partners in taking initiatives and creating contretemps . |
| 13 | A system of giving staff time out of their normal managerial duties , operated , for example , on a rotation basis within a given specialty area would enhance nurses ' appreciation of their colleagues ' clinical fields , and encourage improved communications and understanding . |
| 14 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 15 | ‘ Anthropologists ' study of human societies on this planet [ has ] revealed the condition of women to be a direct result of their peoples ' perception of their mysterious , fearsome , monthly flow of blood . ’ |
| 16 | The earliest two , student pictures , show his humour and vitality ; the third , The Big Shave , a ( literally ) cutting allegory about America 's self-inflicted wounds in Vietnam , exemplifies his fascination with blood , and also explains why he grew a beard ; the longest , Italianamerican , is a warm but surprisingly static home movie of his parents ' reminiscences . |
| 17 | Such sons can either succumb to being the passive agent of their mothers ' neurotic ambitions or can try to rebel , often in a manner which seeks to be both a proof of the son 's independent masculinity and a revolt against the awesome maternal authority . |
| 18 | From a study of his subscribers ' lists , it is clear how popular they were . |
| 19 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |
| 20 | Inspired in part by Gandhi , Niyogi drew on Marx and Mao to create a non-dogmatic popular movement that integrated the work , social and cultural aspects of its members ' lives . |
| 21 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 22 | Leaders influence those aspects of their subordinates ' interests , energies and drive which can not be harnessed by simple organisation structure , job definitions , or more formal management techniques . |
| 23 | These could be the positive side of your parents ' shortcomings , eg a young man may have noticed that his father never took his mother into consideration when purchasing the family car . |
| 24 | It 's important as a hostess that you conduct a thorough search of your guests ' cars for malt whisky , smoked salmon and interesting cheeses before you let them undo their seat-belts . |
| 25 | His middle career was assisted in some ways by the great fire of London , which saw the disruption of his competitors ' businesses and the destruction of whole editions of many books , including much of Shakespeare 's third folio . |
| 26 | By now , however , Tito 's resolve was hardening in the light of his troops ' successes . |
| 27 | The individuals are Fund Managers who are responsible for investment of their clients ' funds . |
| 28 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 29 | Given the value attached to a lord 's maintenance of his servants ' local interests , national eminence could not , in itself , create a significant connection in areas where the lord had no other influence . |
| 30 | Given the value attached to a lord 's maintenance of his servants ' local interests , national eminence could not , in itself , create a significant connection in areas where the lord had no other influence . |