Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the proportionate use of custody is very much lower in magistrates ' courts ( at 5.1 per cent for adults in 1999 ) than it is in Crown Courts ( where the corresponding figure was 47.6 per cent : Home Office , 1990f ) . |
| 2 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the data derived from this study about caring is obviously dependent upon respondents ' perception of their status as either carers or non-carers . |
| 4 | She used not to be so censorious of others ' behaviour but her own betrayal had , she thought , seared her more than she understood . |
| 5 | Subsection 2(f) specifically empowers regulations to be made which authorise the retention by firms " of so much of clients ' money as represents interest " . |
| 6 | The councils have ‘ tackled a great variety of jobs : commenting on local plans , clearing up their area , dealing with traffic problems , organising carol services and other social events , protesting about bus routes and becoming involved in the many other neighbourhood activities so typical of residents ' groups and parish pump politics ’ ( Boaden et al . |
| 7 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 8 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 9 | THE Ombudsman 's report on the Barlow Clowes affair in which 18,000 investors lost £100 million is expected to be highly critical of ministers ' role in the affair . |
| 10 | But inquest necessitated a professionalism long absent from castellans ' courts . |
| 11 | This might lead to the assumption that they are less sensitive to others ' misunderstanding than are adults . |
| 12 | Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers ' discussions about arterial accessibility . |
| 13 | Clearly , if the knowledge that classes A and B were once distinct is no longer present in speakers ' minds , they can not pick out the class B items and so can not separate them from the merged class and then re-merge them with a completely different class . |
| 14 | Mr Brown said the planned charges were the last straw for customers already angry over banks ' high-handed attitude . |
| 15 | In our fifth report we identified three main areas within which attitude and related attributes like personal manner and professional style were critically important for coordinators ' success : |
| 16 | It is thus essential for LDCs ' finance ministries to control the foreign currency borrowing of state enterprises . |
| 17 | Curiously , it is still rather unusual for solicitors ' partnership agreements to provide that partners should retire upon reaching an agreed age , though it might be thought that there are good reasons for making this a requirement in the interests of a firm 's long term planning . |
| 18 | Reducing the emphasis on ‘ selling him up ’ and making it more possible for creditors ' claims to be met out of a debtor 's future income was one of the main objectives of the Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Sir Kenneth Cork which was appointed by the Government in 1977 and reported in 1982 . |
| 19 | In conclusion , the Survey indicated that its results demanded an emphasis on improvements in practice management and that the service could be faster and more responsive to users ' needs . |
| 20 | The huge investment in computers , staff , and administration has the potential to improve the health service by making it more responsive to patients ' needs and raising awareness of costs . |
| 21 | By contrast , perceptions that verge on being attitudes are likely to be more resistant to change and more dependent upon individuals ' partisan backgrounds — their pre-existing sense of party identification , and their use of partisan news sources such as right-wing ( or leftwing ) papers . |
| 22 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 23 | Feminist psychology 's greater awareness of the discipline 's complexities makes it more conscious of psychologists ' social construction than traditional psychologists are , and more uncertain about psychologists ' status as rational , unified subjects . |
| 24 | The BS project has meant more probing into clients ' energy management control . |
| 25 | Older people were much more impressed by politicians ' energy than were younger people . |
| 26 | What is characteristic of strong cultures , and in particular the strong cultures of our sample companies , is that management is deeply respectful of employees ' special knowledge . |
| 27 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 28 | You will also need to check the measurements of rooms , which are usually inaccurate in agents ' particulars . |
| 29 | Feminist psychology 's greater awareness of the discipline 's complexities makes it more conscious of psychologists ' social construction than traditional psychologists are , and more uncertain about psychologists ' status as rational , unified subjects . |
| 30 | However , at base , the trial centred on the illegal conspiracy to support the Guinness share price during the takeover battle in order to make the Guinness cash and shares offer more attractive to Distillers ' shareholders . |