Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Like affection , status relates to our feelings about other peoples ' feelings for us .
2 But if he can leave all this behind , and wearing only ordinary casual clothes still keep up his peers ' belief in him , then the Town Boys are likely to accept him .
3 A salesman at one licensed dealer used to read his clients ' horoscopes for them .
4 Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down .
5 All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven .
6 The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble .
7 Greene found subjects ' performance in her sorting task supported this claim .
8 In the case of definite pronouns , we have shown that mapping from roles to roles and from roles to names can be influenced by manipulating the experimental task and , presumably subjects ' perception of it .
9 This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness .
10 With the god 's gesture and the seers ' reaction to it , this emphasises the designer 's Pindaric approach to the story .
11 This area was selected for study because of the authors ' familiarity with it , the adequate rural-urban contrast and the availability of a suitable image .
12 They had done very little swapping of horses , mainly because Nails refused to and Hoomey , having become accustomed to the feel of Bones 's hulk beneath him , was terrified by what he called the ‘ slippery ’ ponies — Midnight and Firelight — and could not make Spot move at all .
13 He does n't do the engineers ' jobs for them , nor tell the personnel professionals how to he more professional .
14 For instance , he may have found it impossible to meet his parents ' aspirations for him and never attained a secure relationship with them , or he may have repeatedly been told he was unlovable and incompetent , or he may have experienced actual loss of a parent .
15 Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day .
16 Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this .
17 Could you tell me where to apply for a full birth certificate with all my parents ' details on it ?
18 John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me .
19 Would Ms Wilikins come to The Sunday Times 's party with him this evening ?
20 It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was .
21 Or , to turn these questions around , what relevance do these intra-collegial debates over the ‘ proper place of general practice ’ have for everyday medical work and the participants ' views of it ?
22 The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them .
23 Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda .
24 It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye .
25 The bargaining power of enterprises is enhanced by their strategic role within their own sectors and governments ' dependence on them for implementation of policy .
26 He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party .
27 The discussion of national intelligence and the psychologists ' debates over it did not initiate the idea of a system of education specifically designed to foster talent , to prevent waste of intelligence as a national resource .
28 Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts .
29 Secretaries and have outlasted most , with 38 years ' service between them .
30 We also have to recognise that certain rhetorical strategies might be adopted for tactical reasons , especially the ploy of using one 's opponents ' arguments against them in order to discredit their position .
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