Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It depends on how your timetables work out and er , how the available tutors ' timetables work out . |
| 2 | At the start of take-off the stick is held fully back so that , as the aircraft accelerates , the floats ' bow-waves build up to lift their fronts . |
| 3 | Long extracts from the inspectors ' reports conjure up the smells of the 17th century in sickening detail : the open graves , the streets piled high with faeces , the butcher 's shop ‘ full of all kinds of filth , excrement , guts and other muck ’ , and so on . |
| 4 | And out at sea the same companies ' trawlers suck up their catches through giant vacuum pipes … with little thought to the future of the region 's fish stocks . |
| 5 | However , as Mr Fontana points out , singers ' stipends make up only 19% of opera-house budgets . |
| 6 | Polite and featherlight , this is the record you can take home and make your parents ' goes tap along to . |
| 7 | So as much as the reviewers ' preferences shine through , I still feel that they review without prejudice . |
| 8 | The research will try and determine users needs in terms of open systems and this year , for the first time , supply-side research will also be conducted to determine how vendors ' offerings measure up to users ' stated requirements . |
| 9 | The co-ordinating council of the officers ' assemblies set up in January [ see p. 38730 ] sent a message to the summit calling on delegates to agree on the draft proposals on military issues , to halt troop withdrawal from eastern Europe until social protection for servicemen could be assured , and to maintain the military at an adequate level for defence . |
| 10 | Carpenters ' tools turn up on several sites , together with a variety of nails , no doubt made by the local blacksmiths . |
| 11 | Friends ' tributes flood in after shock death |
| 12 | The first should consist of short courses for teachers brought about by expanding the teachers ' centres set up for the Nuffield mathematics and science projects , and should include a one-term secondment in every seven years . |
| 13 | Teachers ' salaries make up an increasingly large proportion of recurrent budgets , especially at primary level , with other expenditures pared down to almost nothing . |
| 14 | Again Chairman , it 's reflected in the children 's services plan up to possible future proposals for Robert Home . |
| 15 | In the art therapy room , the children 's models scream out their distress in battered and broken lumps of clay . |
| 16 | And every evening , when Frith has done his day 's work and lies calm and easy in the red sky , El-ahrairah and his children and his children 's children come out of their holes and feed and play in his sight , for they are his friends and he has promised them that they can never be destroyed . " |
| 17 | The light falls on the back door of the Italian Embassy , and children 's voices pour out of an upstairs window . |
| 18 | Would they make men 's bones fly about like chips ? |
| 19 | All the women 's magazines go on about it . |
| 20 | Eventually this year 's winners in both the men 's and women 's races turn out to be the same as last year 's . |
| 21 | Eventually this year 's winners in both the men 's and women 's races turn out to be the same as last year 's . |
| 22 | Next thing you know , women 's hemlines go up by about three feet . |
| 23 | Women 's bodies bring out all his finer feelings . |
| 24 | The waiters ' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 26 | No fewer than eight classic Stones ' tracks make up Rooster , the new work from leading choreographer Christopher Bruce , which can be seen as part of a triple bill at the Empire from tonight until Saturday . |