Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | This is because the nature of the mechanical deficiencies changed with time , and so did our predecessors ' perceptions of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 8 | those who have accepted the teachers ' view of them that they are thick and who see no point in pursuing any further academic work because of their acknowledged inability , and |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed the teacher who constantly interrupts the students ’ discourse to correct every grammatical mistake not only violates usual turn-taking procedures but may also hinder the students ' acquisition of them . |
| 11 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 12 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 13 | And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was a tall , slender lady that mounted the platform , quite unlike the popular medias ' image of her . |