Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] ' [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 2 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 3 | Won a record 15 of 16 races when they joined forces with Honda in 1988 , and have won both Constructors ' and drivers ' Championships every season since . |
| 4 | The meeting will discuss both researchers ' and industrialists ' views and will also consider the specific sectors of agricultural and bio-medical research . |
| 5 | Environmental decline further limits small farmers ' and pastoralists ' ability to accept externally generated innovations . |
| 6 | Tables II and III show general practitioners ' and non-medical staff 's assessment of the impact of fundholding on their relationships and roles . |
| 7 | This also possesses veneered rhomboids ' and rhomboids with filled triangles ( both on the arms of saltires ) as well as the particular floral device which comprises four heart-shaped petals with convolutes ( at the centre of some of those roundels enclosed by squares ) . |
| 8 | The special cases of literacy usage represented by the analysts ' own academic experience , by the literary forms of their own culture and other specific social conventions are still taken by many , often implicitly , as the appropriate models for describing the ‘ universal ’ qualities of literacy and for testing other groups ' or societies ' conventions of literacy usage . |
| 9 | ( For example Manu the lawgiver recommended to Hindu society more than twelve centuries ago that ‘ the chief function of a woman is to give birth , nurse those who are born and attend daily duties ' or ‘ A girl must be married before she attains puberty and after she is married she must be kept busy looking after elders , cooking , cleaning , keeping accounts and saving money and of course doing Dharma ) . |
| 10 | The heaviest losses were sustained by members of so-called " excess-of-loss ( LMX ) spiral " syndicates which specialized in reinsuring each others ' and other companies ' exposure to high-level catastrophe risks . |
| 11 | An instrument which American parents favoured to warm naughty girls ' and boys ' posteriors . |
| 12 | They also use old crows ' or pigeons ' nests . |
| 13 | Partnership is a more recent concept and it would not fit in too well with the motivations which inspired early industrialists ' and educationalists ' interest in further and higher education . |
| 14 | Alexandra came down the steps in her new green clothes , under which she had managed to put her old comfortable corset when Lyddy had left the room to polish her boots , wearing a smile that was partly triumph at her illicit comfort and partly the satisfaction of having taken five hens ' and four pullets ' eggs to Dora in a little rush basket that very morning . |
| 15 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 16 | Most prisoners are badly tortured and forced to sign unread confessions ' before they are passed to the state prison . |