Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter past one at these are the clues for Kids ' County what are they on about here ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the end she suggested that I should just come and listen , and for politeness ' sake I agreed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With the tournament due to start in a couple of weeks ' time they would soon be past the point of no return . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I commend the Government 's handling of the pay review body and their general approach of marrying this policy , which will lead to higher pay for teachers , with a determined critique of the elements of teachers ' performance which need to be discussed and openly and rigorously criticised . |
| 16 | We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 17 | 1.25 In our first Report , we included an appendix with samples of pupils ' work which illustrated some early stages in the development of writing . |
| 18 | However , objectors say the move is a ‘ scandalous waste ’ of ratepayers ' money which will destroy the popular public park , which is a designated open space . |
| 19 | One head of English in a comprehensive school described the compilation of an anthology of students ' writing which had included writing in languages other than English . |
| 20 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 21 | Kazakhstan currently has one radioactive waste burial site , but in scientists ' opinion it is unsafe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | … the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done , and been ; the shame Of motives late revealed , and the awareness Of things ill done and done to others ' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue . |
| 24 | In one creative planting episode on Gardeners ' World I want to savour a taste of Victoriana with some formal bedding . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |