Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 3 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 4 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Turning to the field of children 's creativity we find that the area of agreement is far larger than that about literature . |
| 9 | Now that we are facing demands to keep the most detailed records of children 's progress it makes sense to involve children in some of this work . |
| 10 | In the case of children 's behaviour it is the parents who have to face the problems and so ultimately it is the parents who have to solve them . |
| 11 | For supporters of women 's ordination it 's the culmination of years of campaigning . |
| 12 | I accept the need to counter the myth that only a biological mother can adequately care for a child , but to say that in the interests of women 's liberation we will pay anyone except the child 's mother to look after it seems to be going a little far in the opposite direction ! |
| 13 | In the case of women 's speech it goes back to antiquity , and its legacy has proved hard to get rid of . |
| 14 | Of workmen 's rights she 's still a guarantee . |
| 15 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
| 16 | Kazakhstan currently has one radioactive waste burial site , but in scientists ' opinion it is unsafe . |
| 17 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 18 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 19 | There was more but in laymen 's terms it was a breakthrough . |
| 20 | During our efforts to spread our ideas about girls ' work we encountered much anti-lesbianism , while at the same time we began to be challenged about our racism by Black women , among whom were some out Black lesbians . |
| 21 | On beginners ' courses we can have adults in four metre Europas alongside kids in Rotobats whilst the bigger kids soon move on to playboats and squirt boats . |
| 22 | While this transformation depends fundamentally on workers ' initiatives it could be aided by a government using the financing relation ( 4 ) as a means of leverage . |
| 23 | Mr Welsh said that in response to reporters ' questions he had refused to rule out any tactic because the party had not decided what its strategy on civil disobedience might be . |
| 24 | When development is used in the literature on children 's language it usually implies acknowledgement of processes over and above learning ( for example , Piaget 1970 ) and an underlying continuity with respect to earlier-occurring relatively simple abilities and later , more complex abilities . |
| 25 | In his early writings , published between 1850 and 1861 , Spencer echoed the opinion of the pro-feminist , J. S. Mill , in his belief that convention had stifled women 's academic achievement , and while he believed that there would be ‘ natural ’ limits on women 's achievements he saw no harm in educating them . |
| 26 | In one creative planting episode on Gardeners ' World I want to savour a taste of Victoriana with some formal bedding . |
| 27 | So for children 's fables you might have : |
| 28 | On May 28 , 1989 — International Day of Action for Women 's Health we plan to hold a seminar/meeting to consolidate our gains and set up a support network for the genital mutilation campaign . |
| 29 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
| 30 | At Engineers ' Hall we listened to experts like D. A. D. Reeve , chief executive of the Severn Trent Water Authority , D. Gaulter , director general of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors , and W. T. Devenay , director of water , Strathclyde Regional Council . |