Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norms begin as our expectations ; these then merge or converge with others ' expectations to produce ‘ rules ’ about required behaviour . |
| 2 | or spattered like quails ' eggs . |
| 3 | Interestingly , almost a third of those exhibiting in the contemporary section , have either studied or taught at Goldsmiths ' College . |
| 4 | If you can not afford the furniture or floorcovering you want , further trips to shops or markets , or looking at suppliers ' catalogues , should give you more inspiration . |
| 5 | Instead of being able to visit the School Library Service base to examine new titles ( usually approval copies sent by library suppliers ) , school librarians were turning to browsing in local bookshops , buying from travelling discount booksellers , or choosing from publishers ' catalogues . |
| 6 | It also emerged that the oil was a light crude , which meant it dispersed more easily and did not soak into sandy beaches or adhere to birds ' feathers in the way that the heavy crude of the Exxon Valdez had done . |
| 7 | Assistance was provided by traditional in-service education , by the activities of advisers and inspectors and , at one time , by activities which were sponsored or encouraged at teachers ' professional centres . |
| 8 | This leaflet took an easily accessible matter ( not too academic or removed from peoples ' everyday lives ) and turned it into a hook for recruitment . |
| 9 | This leaflet took an easily accessible matter ( not too academic or removed from peoples ' everyday lives ) and turned it into a hook for recruitment . |
| 10 | LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO GUESTS ' PROPERTY |
| 11 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 12 | These Student Disks may contain general exercises based on common language learning needs or may be customized according to 's identified market sector needs and/or according to clients ' particular syllabus or domain . |
| 13 | Thus Byrne ( 1981:70 — 84 ) creates five categories : ( 1 ) protective services , such as police and fire , that seek to Protect the citizen from various dangers , ( 2 ) environmental services to control and improve the physical environment such as highways , transport and planning ; ( 3 ) personal services , such as education , housing and social work , that seek to enhance personal welfare ; ( 4 ) amenity services , such as museums , theatres and sports facilities that provide for citizens ' leisure time ; and ( 5 ) trading services for which local authorities make commercial charges . |
| 14 | Everywhere , his testimony was a ‘ show ’ : one that played in dentists ' surgeries to relieve the pain of extraction , in bars to give a purpose to drinking , in aeroplanes criss-crossing the country , and in television stores to crowds of people pressing against the windows . |
| 15 | • Remove market distortions that act against consumers ' freedom of choice |
| 16 | In contrast to the predominant tradition of writing that concentrates on teachers ' professionalism , Connell examines teachers ' labour as work . |
| 17 | But this was not the only series that fed on viewers ' appetite for nostalgic programming . |
| 18 | But with the government forced , this week , to remove all reference to the parts of the treaty that deal with workers ' rights , the exact form of what gets ratified remains in doubt . |
| 19 | It argued — again on evidence from the United States as well as from the British experience — that focusing on offenders ' family histories and relationships led to excessive measures , which widened the ‘ net ’ of care and ( ultimately ) punishment , and hurried minor delinquents ‘ up the tariff ’ . |
| 20 | The role of psychotropic medication in such cases should be made clear to the patient , particularly where medication is only a means of assisting coping behaviour rather than dealing with patients ' fundamental problems . |
| 21 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 22 | Local authorities in England and Wales remain responsible for student grants , and thus for that portion of university , polytechnic and college funding that comes from students ' tuition fees . |
| 23 | Swans suffer from lead poisoning that comes from anglers ' weights . |
| 24 | Men tend to spend more time analysing their own thoughts and motives , and reflecting on others ' behaviour . |
| 25 | Adding in refinancing of maturing debt ( and allowing for individuals ' national savings ) , that means that £1 billion of gilt-edged debt must be sold per week . |
| 26 | Other methods of evaluation could include interviewing a sample of consumers in the target market ( eg to check if they had seen the promotion , changed their buying habits etc ) , and checking on dealers ' stock-levels , shelf-space etc . |
| 27 | This is one of those maverick ideas books that arrive out of nowhere and sleep on reviewers ' shelves until someone notices them . |
| 28 | The slogans on buildings round the square and carried by workers ' groups reflected his new thinking . |
| 29 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
| 30 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |