Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing for us knocking each others ' doors at nights about midnight coming for a swim and we 'd all go down . |
| 2 | It is important to delineate these drugs ' mechanisms of action in decreasing urinary albumin excretion in diabetic patients because classic antihypertensive drugs reduce both the rate of progression of diabetic nephropathy and microalbuminuria in normotensive diabetic patients in the short term . |
| 3 | But that was no reason not to accept these women 's judgements . |
| 4 | British rulers have made collections of books down the ages , and the library portraits of the English kings Henry VII ( 1485–1509 ) , Henry VIII ( 1509–1547 ) and Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558–1603 ) acknowledge these monarchs ' contributions to the sixteenth-century Renaissance of learning in England . |
| 5 | The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death . |
| 6 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 7 | Some organisations interview all candidates ' wives early in the selection process ; others invite only the wives of short-listed candidates into interview ; a few feel it unreasonable to call into question the intentions of potential expatriates ' wives . |
| 8 | Helen Bullock 's article on dads who are unable to cope has attracted many readers ' letters . |
| 9 | Such was the anticipation of a boy that the couple had n't considered any girls ' names . |
| 10 | Used BMW cars in France will be processed by Française des Ferrailles in Athis-mons , while Günter Schmitt in Würzburg will recycle both companies ' cars in Germany . |
| 11 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 12 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 13 | To the politicians the increase in the ratio means they are getting better value for money , greater efficiency — each student educated is costing fewer taxpayers ' pounds . |
| 14 | They saw the school as condoning these teachers ' attitudes . |
| 15 | The challenge of meeting all children 's needs and of helping them achieve their rights can only be met by concerted efforts of governments of multi-lateral agencies and bi-lateral donors , as well as by the path-breaking initiatives of N G Os such as Save The Children . |
| 16 | We will encourage councils to create more tenants ' cooperatives . |
| 17 | ARCHITECTURAL Tours ( 01-267 6497 ) offers a 10-day tour to Los Angeles , ‘ the architectural Mecca of the Western world ’ , to visit many of the buildings including those by Frank Lloyd Wright , Frank Gehry , Ray and Charles Eames , M Schindler , art galleries and museums — as well as the opportunity to visit several architects ' practices . |
| 18 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 19 | Activity in giant cells in the pontine brainstem have been shown to precede eye movements in REM sleep in animals ( or paradoxical sleep , as it is called in rodents and cats ) while there is no evidence that cortical activity can influence these cells ' discharges . |
| 20 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |
| 21 | or more pairs stood , grasping each others ' wrists . |
| 22 | USE GAMES … can they make them harder ? … can they understand each others ' rules ? |
| 23 | With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions . |
| 24 | This confirms many readers ' views and , since woodworkers keep tool and machinery suppliers in business , it seems to me that somebody on the supply side should justify what appears to be gross profiteering . |
| 25 | Curt Rohland , the president of the National Family Farm Coalition , said that the GAO report confirmed many farmers ' views that treating cows with a synthetic hormone puts the animals under greater stress , making them more vulnerable to infection , and hence leading to an increased use of antibiotics . |
| 26 | The National Childbirth Trust produces a book called Breastfeeding A Toddler , which recounts several women 's stories , some of whom decided to continue breastfeeding , and some who decided to stop . |
| 27 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 28 | In Venezuela , the dictatorship of Juán Vicente Gómez attacked all workers ' movements and the Communist party was outlawed from the 1920s until 1945 . |
| 29 | Mr Wright 's experience underscores many companies ' concerns about empowerment , which is rapidly becoming a buzz-word in enlightened management circles . |
| 30 | The two central , baggy-suited dancers , Lynne Bristow and William Trevitt , either mirror each others ' movements ( the old man perhaps communing with his diary ) or else dance as a couple ( the man reliving past relationships ) . |