Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a range of success rates is given , this indicates that there were several assessment items for a particular skill or task and that performance covered a fairly wide band — an immediate warning that a criterion statement based on such tasks will not tell us much about pupils ' achievements . |
| 2 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
| 3 | I believe that this is absolutely vital , not only for teachers ' sanity , but also for the health of the education system as a whole . |
| 4 | He also announced cautious proposals to revive the economy , promising a relaxation in current wage controls and increased subsidies for housing , for health services , and especially for the agricultural sector [ see below for farmers ' protests ] . |
| 5 | The cacophony within the house seemed to last for several minutes , but was perhaps only of seconds ' duration . |
| 6 | In other counties ( Oxfordshire was an early example ) the linking together of teachers ' centres into a county network means that high quality work produced anywhere in the county can be disseminated on requirement to other schools . |
| 7 | Accordingly total expenditure E in the period under consideration was composed entirely of consumers ' expenditure C , and total income Y in the community was identical to this expenditure . |
| 8 | Looking back at the face of the bank , they could see that it was in fact dotted thickly with martins ' holes . |
| 9 | Their netting stakes were no more than 2 feet ( 60 centimetres ) in length , to slip nicely into poachers ' pockets for concealment . |
| 10 | It is often said , and rightly , that a lot of thought goes into defendants ' rights , but not enough into victims ' rights . |
| 11 | But she never seemed to make the connection between these skills and the sickness notes , apparently in parents ' hands , which her pupils brought to school after prolonged absences of two or three weeks . |
| 12 | 3 Media offences which are triable only in magistrates ' courts . |
| 13 | The IoD 's Peter Morgan adds : ‘ It 's only in companies ' boardrooms that decisions are made or not made , opportunities taken or lost . |
| 14 | What you should photograph depends entirely on editors ' requirements . |
| 15 | This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material . |
| 16 | The ‘ information ’ part of Vredeling , which would apply to employers with 1,000 or more employees , would require that information relating to the business as a whole , and to the employees ' own particular subsidiaries or establishments , be supplied annually to employees ' representatives . |
| 17 | Looking specifically at the arable sector , the SAC 's Sandy Ramsay highlighted the effects of the UK 's departure from the ERM , saying that it had worked greatly to farmers ' advantage . |
| 18 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 19 | Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads . |
| 20 | Charlotte and Ursula watched the broadcast together at Swans ' Meadow , Ursula nursing a gin and tonic as she did so . |
| 21 | This distinction had been blurred not only by officers ' participation in the committees but by the Pflimlin government 's delegation of supreme civilian authority to the Commander-in-Chief , General Salan . |
| 22 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 23 | However , it does appear that the notion of language teachers joining a profession with its own history does not figure largely in tutors ' conceptions of their work , that English tutors do not see ‘ language ’ as something requiring separate attention , and that all tutors tend to play down aspects of language policy or language in society . |
| 24 | When they turned seven , the boys had to go away to boys ' schools . |
| 25 | And they in turn were in what were rather like bakers ' trays . |
| 26 | The specialist field of old master drawings has received extremely detailed study ; the drawings are interesting both in their own right and as a means of knowing more about artists ' practices . |
| 27 | Here is a very simple example : i ) As part of a wider market research exercise , a UK bread manufacturer wishes to find out more about peoples ' preferences between white , brown and wholemeal bread . |
| 28 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 29 | That money goes directly into farmers ' pockets . |
| 30 | Water-fleas ( Daphnia ) , blood-worms and a few other kinds of small animal can be purchased cheaply from aquarists ' shops , where they are sold as live food for tropical fish . |