Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 2 | It might also prove illuminating if we adopt a dialectical approach , considering , for instance , the conflicts between different characters ' conversational behaviour . |
| 3 | Mean energy intake ( Table III ) was not significantly different in the two groups before treatment , increased in both groups after four weeks ' treatment , and was maintained in the steroid treated group but not in the group treated with the elemental diet after 13 weeks . |
| 4 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 5 | ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing . |
| 6 | After initial support from the Department of Employment , Compact has raised funds for four years ' work from Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council , Liverpool City Council and the private sector . |
| 7 | There were , there were two erm boarding schools for Methodist ministers ' children . |
| 8 | This agreement grew out of a proposal put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev as a compromise between the demands for individual states ' armies and unified CIS conventional forces . |
| 9 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
| 10 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 11 | Maincrop carrots after 6 months ' root growth |
| 12 | As an OECD study notes the borderline between public and private enterprises is difficult to draw … some enterprises are more public than others , some are only nominally public and have all the essential characteristics of private organizations ' ( 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 13 | We listen time and again to scare stories about loony left Labour councils , many of which are figments of Conservative Members ' imaginations . |
| 14 | The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups . |
| 15 | Yesterday he told the heads of such toffs ' schools as Eton and Marlborough that nothing had changed . |
| 16 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 17 | The interest spread to other disciplines , even to such apparently distant research areas as the relationship between ratings of female singers ' androgyny , and their music genre and record sleeve images ( Thaxton and Jaret 1985 ) . |
| 18 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 19 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 20 | Flowers such as the ox-eyed daisy , poppies , lords and ladies , stitchwort , speedwell , herb Robert , white yarrow and blackberry toad flax were shown along with pictures of dew-laden spiders ' webs draped on flowers . |
| 21 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 22 | A much more useful and realistic approach is to study recordings of different speakers ' natural , spontaneous speech and try to make generalisations about attitudes and intonation on this basis . |
| 23 | Local changes can be detected from employment , taxation and social security records and also Executive Councils ' lists of general practitioners ' patients ( though these are notoriously out of date especially for age groups having little need of medical care and therefore slow to register with a new GP after moving ) . |
| 24 | When the restriction was lifted from the Senior Chief Inspector 's annual report about examining the effect on maintained schools of local authorities ' financial and finance-linked resources , it became a report about national quality . |
| 25 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
| 26 | ( b ) To link schools into other schools ' good practice . |
| 27 | In the final , expecting a tougher time against Norfolk , they ran out 7–0 winners with Old Loughts ' Ian Barker and Krishnan both notching hat-tricks and Chelmsford 's Phil Benton adding the other . |
| 28 | Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres . |
| 29 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 30 | The Welsh ace bagged four goals in this Cup-Winners ' Cup romp to eclipse Sixties ' idol Roger Hunt . |