Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I feel sorry for the officers ' families who have to know that every time they go to work they 're in this sort of danger . |
| 2 | He remembered his wife mentioning to him that some immigrants had moved into the street , and , because he knew that neither Donna nor Mrs Stych would bother to call on immigrants , he felt vaguely sorry for the newcomers ' isolation . |
| 3 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
| 4 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 5 | For the third period , that after the parents ' death or incapacity , I do accept the reasonableness of employing a nursing agency and therefore on this occasion I do accept Mr figure per year of sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty seven pounds and ninety six pence . |
| 6 | Results should be issued as soon as possible after the candidates ' work has been marked by centres and moderated by the HCIMA , and within three months of the date of the final assessments for an area of study . |
| 7 | A piece of magic from Collins settled the issue when he won a tackle and looped over a high pass for Chris Higgs to race clear for the Police 's fourth try . |
| 8 | As long ago as 1978 , the Scottish Hospital Advisory Service reported from observation visits to long-stay hospitals throughout Scotland that even when adjustable beds were provided , they were frequently found at a height too high for the patients ' safety and unfortunately , this is often still true . |
| 9 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 10 | So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales . |
| 11 | The Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) , which is seen by some as a loggers ' charter , is to be reformed . |
| 12 | Top two-year-old Sayyedati is also considered doubtful for the Fillies ' Mile . |
| 13 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
| 14 | But this is probably the easier of the Tories ' tasks . |
| 15 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 16 | Mr Matthews reckons that about half of the banks ' retained earnings comes from securities gains . |
| 17 | He was apprenticed 2 December 1712 to Samuel Wastell , a London goldsmith , and made free of the Goldsmiths ' Company by service on 16 June 1720 . |
| 18 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 19 | They had two sons , Thomas , who died at Leghorn , and Edward ( c .1681–1734 ) , who carried on the family business , becoming free of the Masons ' Company in 1702 and master in 1719 . |
| 20 | He served an apprenticeship with the London bookseller Abel Roper from 1 August 1644 until 28 June 1652 , when he became free of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 21 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 22 | At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 . |
| 23 | It threshed this way and that , as the giant tried , uselessly , to pull free of the Trees ' cruel grip . |
| 24 | some of the gods erm they believe in erm both erm but certainly there were Hindu and Buddhist temples and erm people used to go to both . |
| 25 | erm I sometimes feel erm that erm in fact = it would be a good idea when I see people doing things which I regard as immediately dangerous , but I think it might make considerable difficulties for the relationship between the police and the motoring public which erm are already at times very strained , and I 'm not sure , for some of the reasons erm that Norbert has suggested , that it 's erm necessarily a very erm happy system . |
| 26 | The first of these stages was much the most important , for despite the promulgation of the Nazimov Rescript a betting man would not have laid money , at the end of 1857 , on the proposition that peasants were going to acquire both freedom from manorial jurisdiction and some of the landlords ' property . |
| 27 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 28 | And when you sat there saying ‘ But what about some of the women 's issues ? ’ , they sat there saying , ‘ Why , why does it matter … ? ’ |
| 29 | And she would turn for confirmation to Reginald Forrest , who played the comic characters or heavy villains and whose deep voice could often be heard singing , falsetto , some of the women 's songs . |
| 30 | Immigration laws were also found to have an effect on some of the women 's experiences of domestic violence . |