Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [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 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Turning to the field of children 's creativity we find that the area of agreement is far larger than that about literature . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For supporters of women 's ordination it 's the culmination of years of campaigning . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | In the case of women 's speech it goes back to antiquity , and its legacy has proved hard to get rid of . |
| 13 | Kazakhstan currently has one radioactive waste burial site , but in scientists ' opinion it is unsafe . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In one creative planting episode on Gardeners ' World I want to savour a taste of Victoriana with some formal bedding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As the transfer was not at arms ' length I had to obtain an estimate of the market value of the house and forward this to the Inland Revenue Stamps Office . |