Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 NEARLY 2,000 businesses went bust in the three months following the Tories ' election victory .
2 This danger exists also in secondary schools where the governors ' report must include information in a prescribed form in relation to public examinations — in effect , a publication of results .
3 In the gardens the grass glistened with dew , which left imprints where the soldiers ' feet had passed .
4 Two days later the employers ' managing committee decided to dismiss twenty of the employees and instructed the chargehands to decide who should be chosen .
5 Yesterday there were angry scenes when a tenants ' group held a meeting with representatives of Aberconwy Borough Council who were organising a clean-up of the badly flooded area .
6 He went quickly into the unpretentious terraced houses where the Children 's Hearing offices in Kirkwall are situated .
7 There were times when the writers ' arrogance or pomposity had the opposite of the intended effect of taking the often hapless victim down a peg or three .
8 This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured .
9 It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect .
10 Tautology also appears to occur sometimes in personality inventories where the characteristics ' can be boiled down to ‘ attitudes favourable to the commission of crime ’ ( or ‘ anti-social ’ acts ) ; that is to say , ‘ criminals are people who hold pro-crime values ’ .
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