Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the god 's gesture and the seers ' reaction to it , this emphasises the designer 's Pindaric approach to the story . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Could you tell me where to apply for a full birth certificate with all my parents ' details on it ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The bank , which also held its annual meeting yesterday , rejected a shareholders ' demand for it to sell its US-based fund management business , National Securities & Research . |
| 11 | And I know this presents the county council with some problems I do n't know currently what the the local authorities ' view on it is . |
| 12 | Jamie Reid 's graphic designs — cut-ups , like a kidnapper 's ransom notes — mocked the ethos of the record industry , and the Sex Pistols ' relationship with it , with a wickedly funny disrespect for politesse or law . |
| 13 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |
| 14 | You can forget old wives ' tales about it clearing up ‘ when you get married ’ or ‘ growing out of it ’ . |
| 15 | It will be an ‘ entitlement ’ to children only if the teachers ' interpretation of it and their teaching style , as it is affected by its requirements , will make them more rather than less likely to be the teachers with the sorts of qualities which are likely to engage their learners , interests . |
| 16 | Some recent interpretations of Greek history , and of the Greek historians ' versions of it , have suggested that there was , in fact , a gap between such ideals and the actual practice and that we should not take their own statements too literally . |
| 17 | Take one question at a time and go through all the trainees ' answers to it . |
| 18 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 19 | Today 's game I thought would be a good opportunity to rub the buggers ' noses in it . |
| 20 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 21 | Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills . |
| 22 | The issue of whether the US federal courts will sustain Berkeley Software Design Inc 's motion to dismiss Unix System Laboratories ' suit against it ( UX No 392 ) comes up this week . |
| 23 | Cars , provided by the company , have become the physical symbols of the employees ' progress through it . |
| 24 | Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership . |
| 25 | The fact that it is underrepresented highlights the need to draw translators ' attention to it . |
| 26 | However , Gorbachev on Nov. 17 salvaged his prestige with a short address in which he unexpectedly produced proposals for constitutional reforms to strengthen the central leadership and raise the level of the republics ' involvement in it . |