Example sentences of "[adj] to the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dane curled her long body into the remaining space and lay with her head resting on her front paws , oblivious to the pups ' wails of hunger . |
| 2 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 3 | That , no doubt , was central to the MPs ' reasoning last Monday night . |
| 4 | Central to the legislators ' notions of purity was an all-pervasive blood taboo which , as has been demonstrated above , embraced foodstuffs , sacrificial victims , humans , etc. , and very definitely separated out the male from the female . |
| 5 | An RFL is subject to the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal , including its power to fine the RFL , to strike the name of the RFL off the register or to suspend his or her registration . |
| 6 | Building up parental confidence in these techniques can sometimes present a problem as they may be contradictory to the parents ' viewpoint . |
| 7 | Ultimately , the plaintiffs failed to prove their case because the losses they had suffered were , as a matter of fact , unrelated to the auditors ' report on the 1982 accounts . |
| 8 | His own brawny , Mancunian accent was obviously akin to The Chameleons ' Mark Burgess , and combined with the haunting guitar riffs of Gedge 's early songs , it all became very uncanny . |
| 9 | There were elements in its thinking , however , which were akin to the Keynesians ' views . |
| 10 | The Compact Management team should ensure , through prior discussion with employers , that Work Experience placements are of good quality and appropriate to the students ' needs . |
| 11 | The Palm Court fountains are pyramid-shaped , following Smith 's preoccupation with the Egyptian theme that he believes appropriate to the Victorians ' far horizons . |
| 12 | However , this will not preclude other world faiths from that particular discrete area of the curriculum should their introduction be appropriate to the childrens ' experience or the particular theme , topic or unit of work being studied . |
| 13 | This might include continuous assessment of the learner in the clinical area , with the expected level of competence defined in the objectives , appropriate to the learners ' stage of training . |
| 14 | Mr Evans and his union were crucial to the men 's strategy . |
| 15 | Initially flattering for the recognition it brought , the vast and continuous bundles of fan request mail eventually proved intrusive to the artists ' private lives as their characters entered public domain . |
| 16 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 17 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 18 | Patel then drove from his Johannesburg home to Pretoria prior to the Wallabies ' departure for Port Elizabeth to try and rescue the tour . |
| 19 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 20 | Exit polls are now a vital part of election night specials — but they are also fatal to the programmes ' capacity to grip an audience through suspense . |
| 21 | Secondly , is the fact that there was no separate independent advice fatal to the plaintiffs ' claim ? |
| 22 | Yeah in today 's press it says that er the government are going to subsidize now the coal industry something like seven hundred millions due to the miners ' kerfuffle , which is going to mean between five and ten pounds subsidy per ton . |
| 23 | He supposed it was due to the railways ' air of resentful obsolescence , combined with their persistent insights into what was so often ignored : abandoned pastures , neglected buildings , all that was overgrown and outmoded , all that was best forgotten . |
| 24 | Farming communities , such as are found in Central Wales , benefitted a great deal from the advent of the railway : it meant cheaper raw materials , but at the same time the value of farm produce increased due to the railways ' ease of access to the more affluent urban markets . |
| 25 | The study states that temperature increase could be limited to 0.2 degrees per decade , due to the oceans ' ability to absorb additional heat . |
| 26 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
| 27 | Female influence was greatest in consumer decisions , and least in public affairs ( although , as in the above example of voting choices , the researchers say that the latter finding may be due to the men 's unwillingness to admit to having serious political discussions with women ) . |
| 28 | A government statement of July 22 denied the existence of guerrilla forces and noted that recent incidents between the Kaitseliit and Russian troops involving arms were attributable to the Russians ' violation of Estonian law . |
| 29 | Well , I am alas going to have to leave out my discussion of God in Paradise Lost , the question of whether , by presenting the obedience to God you can somehow make it more palatable to the readers ' tastes than you could if it was entirely thought of as a secular morality . |
| 30 | His appearance is essential to the tribes ' fertility , and he is petitioned in initiation rites for young boys at puberty . |