Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [adj] [noun] or " in BNC.

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1 With his first vote the West German elector can if he so desires make a choice solely with reference to the rival candidates ' personal qualities or their popularity .
2 These Student Disks may contain general exercises based on common language learning needs or may be customized according to 's identified market sector needs and/or according to clients ' particular syllabus or domain .
3 Nothing is known about the brothers ' formal education or early apprenticeships .
4 A frequent methodological problem in electrophysiological experiments has been that experimenters have either failed to exercise any control whatever over their subjects ' cognitive strategies or else have relied simply on instructions to subjects to engage in a particular mental activity .
5 Day to day work is carried out by contractors ' own labour or British Gas ' industrial staff under control of our supervisors and engineers .
6 In formal situations roles can clearly give people special rights , but even in conversation — where according to our definition unequal power is suspended — it is unlikely that knowledge of participants ' social office or status will be wholly forgotten .
7 The RF Defence and Foreign Ministries were to negotiate the status of troops on Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states ' territories not forming part of those states ' armed forces or of the CIS strategic forces .
8 Was that the consultants ' own decision or were they prevented from consulting the NRA by the Cardiff Bay development corporation which originally proposed the Bill in close co-operation with the Welsh Office ?
9 Increasingly these instructions are becoming more important in determining the power and flexibility of computers than the machines ' electronic parts or hardware .
10 Such sons can either succumb to being the passive agent of their mothers ' neurotic ambitions or can try to rebel , often in a manner which seeks to be both a proof of the son 's independent masculinity and a revolt against the awesome maternal authority .
11 So much mere lip-service is paid to the concept of the primacy of users ' needs , and so often are the users ' needs merely perceived rather than ascertained , that library services fall short of users ' real needs or requirements too often .
12 On top of the official fee of up to 10 yuan ( about $1 ) a term , many schools add on other charges , for repairing crumbling school buildings , topping up teachers ' meagre pay or buying books , which can easily add up to the equivalent of $10 a month .
13 You can work for large multi-national corporations ' in-house counsel or in the branch office of your firm abroad .
14 Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted .
15 When er the sales exec for marketing goes round doing the contract bits and pieces er they he or she and the surgery the doctors ' senior partners or all the doctors will agree on the number of booklets we 're going to print .
16 This may include lecture preparation , presentation , research for a publication or article in the members ' own name or research for a new piece of work to be undertaken .
17 After lunch , either from members ' own nosebags or from the Museum café , we reboarded our coach and set off on a magical mystery tour in search of Butterley and the M.R.C. It is quite fun ‘ turning round ’ on a fairly busy main road in a large coach !
18 Yet few educationists would argue that they do not figure in their overall goals for what they wish pupils to achieve or that they do not impinge fundamentally on pupils ' potential success or failure .
19 The fact that the machines made by Amstrad had other legitimate uses , such as making copies of the purchasers ' own music or of works not protected by copyright , was important , even though it was obvious that the largest use would involve copyright infringement .
20 It has n't got the Stone Roses ' laddish edge or the Beloved 's slickness , but that 's the appeal .
21 The dolphins ' high-protein fish or squid diet , with almost no carbohydrate content , also contributes considerably to a high metabolic rate .
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