Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 2 | Sex differences are also less in actuality than they are in teachers ' perceptions , as self-report schedules demonstrate , and clearly depend on who is defining what as ‘ deviant , ’ ‘ disruptive ’ or ‘ disaffected ’ — that is , what and whose rules of ‘ normality ’ are being infringed . |
| 3 | All through tickets would be returned to the Railway Clearing House , although one or two are in collectors ' hands . |
| 4 | I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel , the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers ' parcels and luggage . |
| 5 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 6 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 7 | And in case anyone thought that that was the end of the bad news , the company says it expects that its revenue for the first quarter to September 27 will be below analysts ' expectations and that it will incur a loss for the quarter . |
| 8 | From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests . |
| 9 | They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people . |
| 10 | In this way , we can see how intimately connected teachers ' classroom strategies are to teachers ' cultures and careers , how what happens in the staffroom has implications for performance in the classroom also . |
| 11 | In Islington 's famous Union Chapel , for example , the doors which opened into the auditorium had fixed to the wall beside them small boxes with a slit on the top ; these were for worshippers ' donations . |
| 12 | What power he had , what admiration he extorted , what looks there were in girls ' eyes . |
| 13 | The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings . |
| 14 | To return to the shareholder example , having raised the point that it is in shareholders ' interests to ensure their returns are reasonable , it logically follows that there will be an incentive for them to spend a certain amount of time and money finding out about the firm 's activities and performance . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman must answer this question : how can he argue that it is in patients ' interests to move away from a system of competitive tendering and use that money to pay trade union members rather than to pay for extra treatment for patients ? |
| 16 | Questions are categorised as closed ( where teacher wants answer which is already in her/his mind ) and open ( where teacher is interested in knowing what is in pupils ' minds ) . |
| 17 | His focus is on teachers ' understandings of , and attempts to cope with the situations they experience in schools , and the various pressures and constraints that shape the teaching environment and over which teachers have little control . |
| 18 | Tomorrow 's Europe must have a Bill of Rights and a Thatcher Carta , she cried , despite being about as keen on a Bill of Rights for Britain and a Social Charter for today 's EC as she is on workers ' soviets |
| 19 | 'E was after magpies ' eggs . ’ |