Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bright Eyes : you can keep shampoo out of babies ' eyes by smearing a line of Vaseline just above their eyebrows . |
| 2 | Any optimism there for teachers ' salaries to go up ? |
| 3 | Somehow they regrouped and recouped their losses , making as much as they could out of their connection with the king 's court , and rebuilding their followings by recruiting men to their retinues and councils on a less feudal basis , distributing money rents and patronage instead of knights ' fees . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The materials also attempted to embody generally accepted features of good practice in adult training — boards were encouraged to work as teams ; the principles of learning through practice and participation were emphasised ; relevance both to members ' own previous experience and to real board tasks was highlighted ; and the material was designed to make it easily understood by all board members . |
| 6 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 7 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 8 | The sending off of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , which came in between the opening goal from Ian Durrant and an equaliser from Lorenzo Staelens , was questionable in the extreme . |
| 9 | Figures like these have taken much of the fizz out of brewers ' forecasts . |
| 10 | constructing its own models of that knowledge independently of researchers ' analytical assumptions and preconceptions . |
| 11 | It remains to be seen whether or not Darren Jackson will recover from the stomach injury which kept the striker out of Hibs ' Cup win over Cowdenbeath . |
| 12 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
| 13 | Charlotte and Ursula watched the broadcast together at Swans ' Meadow , Ursula nursing a gin and tonic as she did so . |
| 14 | So Marko told her that he had been ordered to build a tower out of elephants ' tusks . |
| 15 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |
| 16 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |