Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know how long the boys ' ploughing matches went on for ? |
| 2 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 3 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 4 | However , the journeys of smolts and mature salmon are often separated by several months , and so the smolts ' odour would have to be very persistent to act as a guide . |
| 5 | So the Masters ' honour roll contains such unlikely winners as Art Wall , Gay Brewer , Bob Goalby , George Archer , Charles Coody and Larry Mize , all of whom have failed to win another major title . |
| 6 | Wrong horse … and speaking of odds , word reaches us that super-confident Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb is so much the punters ' favourite that the town 's biggest bookie has stopped taking bets . |
| 7 | The findings indicate however that it is not so much the carers ' preferences which do or do not change but their feelings about the feasibility of those preferences . |
| 8 | The re the essence of was they made more or less the customers ' requirements . |
| 9 | There was quite a few men and made more or less the customers ' requirements and when I was in charge , there was sixteen and they , about in two or three parties , er you know and they 'd make different kinds of locks what was ordered and not particularly er mortice or rim er what the customer required . |
| 10 | But erm another funny story that er always sticks in my mind is er when we sent memos to the Clerks ' Department and there was only the Clerks ' Department , they were , they were trying to erm improve their public image as |
| 11 | ( Only the Ladies ' records are complete , but not surprisingly they lack references to the Club 's business affairs and course developments , etc . ) . |
| 12 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 13 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 14 | The ancient Globe Inn , the Wesleyan Ebenezer Chapel opposite , and some 18th century cottages form an attractive conservation area in Bell Street , Herston , formerly almost entirely a quarriers ' hamlet . |
| 15 | Only now it is more difficult to spot because they have taken away the visitors ' platform and the view through the most celebrated new gap in the Berlin Wall is often obscured by the steady stream of tramping East Berliners and their Trabant cars . |
| 16 | Mr Murray now wants to give away the Smugglers ' Kitchen so that he can channel his efforts into another property — the Dartmoor Inn at Bovey Tracey , also in Devon . |
| 17 | Gale force winds could not blow away the players ' enthusiasm but they did make it very hard work . |
| 18 | However , this enthusiasm to convey solutions to pupils often ends up by precluding the pupils ' own ideas and can not only be inhibiting but also take away the pupils ' enjoyment of getting there themselves . |
| 19 | If fully independent castellans such as those of Bemy and the Mâconnais remained a rarity , nevertheless the princes ' claim to control fortifications was at best spasmodically enforced , at worst absent in practice if recognized in theory . |
| 20 | Thus the missiles ' controllers can immediately stop if they receive the emergency action message ( EAM ) before reaching the planned launch site — normally a wooded area , well away from built-up areas , to hide the weapon from prying eyes . |
| 21 | Thus the lawyers ' input is limited , but the investors may require questionnaires to be completed and warranted by management , to flush out any past problems . |
| 22 | Thus the authorities ' ability to raise the level of demand above Y * ; is contingent on their success in deceiving the private sector into underanticipating inflation |
| 23 | Thus the companies ' approach to investment has been to ensure that there is sufficient availability of short-term assets to meet unforeseen contingencies and then to maximise holdings of long-dated , higher-yielding assets . |
| 24 | Nijinska insisted on the use of the pointes in order to emphasise the elongated portraits of the Byzantine Saints , thus the dancers ' bodies mostly face the audience but their arms and legs turn inwards and are seen mostly in profile . |
| 25 | Erm anyway the Kids ' County what are we talking about ? |
| 26 | Downstairs the Officers ' Club , elegant in Chippendale , is available for select functions . |
| 27 | It was not just the Iraqis ' perfidy that did them down . |
| 28 | Each piece is not just the hunters ' story traditionally presenting the head or horns of the victim . |
| 29 | I could not decide if the fact that no one had discovered my secret was actually the result of my elaborate efforts or just the boys ' lack of attention . |
| 30 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |