Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] ' [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Peace People are there for prisoners ' wives who want to break all connections with the gunmen . |
| 2 | This is Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter past one at these are the clues for Kids ' County what are they on about here ? |
| 3 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 4 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 5 | The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work . |
| 6 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 7 | Of course , there have been plenty of Lions ' tours which brought no such dividend , 1951 being a case in point . |
| 8 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 9 | Aside from his Jamaican paintings , this was the year that Minton produced his London Transport poster as well as the lithograph Apple Orchard , Kent for the second of three series of artists ' prints which J. Lyons & Co. commissioned as wall decorations for their tea shops and which were also made available to the public at 15s 9d each . |
| 10 | Although dual employer structuring may be common in some industries , nevertheless our main concern is more specifically with the origins and development of employers ' associations themselves , which will now be delineated . |
| 11 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 12 | We turn now to a reinterpretation of Keynes ' economics which emphasises the disequilibrium aspects of the analysis . |
| 13 | Return on capital attempts to measure the efficiency or otherwise with which directors use the funds entrusted to them : while employment is a rather important measure of companies ' progress which tends to be overlooked in conventional financial circles . |
| 14 | In the late tenth century Sigeric archbishop of Canterbury went to Rome to receive his scarf of office , the pallium of lambs ' wool which was the mark of an archbishop ; and this seems at that time to have been an immemorial custom of very recent origin . |
| 15 | In the tenth century it was imagined to be an immemorial tradition that archbishops wishing to receive from the pope the ‘ pallium ’ , the scarf of lambs ' wool which set them apart as metropolitans and gave them their status over the rest of the bishops , should come to Rome in person to receive it . |
| 16 | Instead , supervisors should consider concentrating regulation — and deposit protection — on those ( shrinking ) bits of banks ' activities which there is truly a public interest in protecting . |
| 17 | emphasizes the rigid formality of Brutus ' speech which is very clever , but is contain hardly any emotional side to it . |
| 18 | Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort . |
| 19 | In the context of the mobilisation and assertiveness of organised labour under Heath 's government , the industrial policy proposals became charged with a stronger element of workers ' control which was seen as an essential component of the ‘ planning agreements ’ to be made with large enterprises , and vital to their enforcement . |
| 20 | All the geometrical information about a space is quantified by the equivalent of Pythagoras ' theorem which relates the distance between nearby points in space to their coordinate separations . |
| 21 | But in most of Williams ' work I feel the kind of observations being ‘ made ’ … seem to me too casual , however delightfully phrased , to be especially interesting … |
| 22 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 23 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 24 | Of Gleizes ' work he said : ‘ Standing in front of his canvases I had the very definite impression of a sobering up after an Impressionist debauch . ’ |
| 25 | Those proponents of Producers ' Co-operation who ‘ wanted each factory to be established as a separate profit-sharing society ’ were right in principle : for only thus could it escape from the dominant consumer interest , only thus secure the ground from which to mount its own advance towards the more important objective of Co-operative aspiration . |
| 26 | There was an aspect of John-Augustus ' character which he would suppress whenever — and it was not especially frequently — it was aroused : sympathy for the victim . |
| 27 | In 1983 H Weber gave an account of Galois ' theory which is " applicable to every case … from function theory … to number theory " using the field concept " without reference to any numerical interpretation " . |
| 28 | I was really knocked out by your article on Philip Glass and I think it contained the best description of Glass ' music I have ever read . |
| 29 | There are also a large number of bodies ' accounts which C. and A.G. audits by agreement with the body and the government department concerned . |
| 30 | They are concerned with a statutory form of control rather than the common law , and did not mention the House of Lords ' decisions which are to the contrary . |