Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that there is little sign in early 1930s films of political comment disguised as fantasy or allegory , it is reasonable to assign limitations of these pictures more to filmmakers ' sensibilities than censors ' rules . |
| 2 | Bright Eyes : you can keep shampoo out of babies ' eyes by smearing a line of Vaseline just above their eyebrows . |
| 3 | Any optimism there for teachers ' salaries to go up ? |
| 4 | Somehow they regrouped and recouped their losses , making as much as they could out of their connection with the king 's court , and rebuilding their followings by recruiting men to their retinues and councils on a less feudal basis , distributing money rents and patronage instead of knights ' fees . |
| 5 | A few years later it 's chocs away for Rovers ' new regime at Wolves on Saturday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The materials also attempted to embody generally accepted features of good practice in adult training — boards were encouraged to work as teams ; the principles of learning through practice and participation were emphasised ; relevance both to members ' own previous experience and to real board tasks was highlighted ; and the material was designed to make it easily understood by all board members . |
| 8 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 9 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 10 | The sending off of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , which came in between the opening goal from Ian Durrant and an equaliser from Lorenzo Staelens , was questionable in the extreme . |
| 11 | to move excess stocks on to retailers ' shelves ; |
| 12 | The Fouga , designed as a primary jet trainer , was and still is a very good machine for introducing pilots gently to jets ' special characteristics — while giving them lots of fun too . |
| 13 | Sir Edmond at this time lived in Foster Lane close to Goldsmiths ' Hall . |
| 14 | However , just as basic systems theory suggests that every system begins and ends with the individual and , therefore , that all systems are circular , there is good reason to believe that a common policy for education can only be arrived at by looking at the array of experiences of different individuals instead of others ' perceptions of these experiences . |
| 15 | Prior to the launch of Compaq 's DeskPro/M series he upgraded from 286s to 386SX computers by shuffling the older machines on to secretaries ' desks . |
| 16 | Figures like these have taken much of the fizz out of brewers ' forecasts . |
| 17 | constructing its own models of that knowledge independently of researchers ' analytical assumptions and preconceptions . |
| 18 | It remains to be seen whether or not Darren Jackson will recover from the stomach injury which kept the striker out of Hibs ' Cup win over Cowdenbeath . |
| 19 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 20 | Three points are awarded for a win and one for a draw with Derby , Bristol City and West Ham also in Rovers ' group . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All kinds of hand tools , ranging from picks , mattocks and shovels down to builders ' pointing trowels and even teaspoons and paintbrushes , are used . |
| 23 | Charlotte and Ursula watched the broadcast together at Swans ' Meadow , Ursula nursing a gin and tonic as she did so . |
| 24 | Read on to see how well each pair measures up to makers ' claims . |
| 25 | So Marko told her that he had been ordered to build a tower out of elephants ' tusks . |
| 26 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 27 | Some 800 people had died since August in this violence , involving clashes particularly in workers ' hostels between mainly Xhosa-speaking pro-ANC workers and the almost exclusively Zulu-based Inkatha movement ( now the Inkatha Freedom Party ) led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 28 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |
| 29 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 30 | By September 700 employees out of Chemicals ' 2,300-strong workforce will have completed the two-day EHO course and sat an examination . |