Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | The YBC 's members are all elected members of the Bar Council under seven years ' call , together with a small number of coopted members . |
2 | The village technology team initially used teachers ' training college students to gain preliminary information on crafts and skills available in the two provinces . |
3 | The day after five days ' treatment with omeprazole plus SMS 201–995 , serum gastrin levels were increased because of the prolonged effects of omeprazole on gastrin release . |
4 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
5 | These will aim to eliminate non-strategic nuclear weapons from Europe , and to reduce the strategic weapons possessed by the US , the former Soviet Union , Britain , France and China — a vital step towards the day when individual nations ' possession of nuclear deterrents ceases to be necessary . |
6 | He notes that performances of the piece by such contemporary Mahler exponents as Bernstein , Abbado , Levine , Karajan , Tennstedt and Maazel average around 12 minutes ' duration , while Haitink 's recording takes about 14 minutes , and Scherchen 's lasts a full quarter of an hour . |
7 | The answer to the question ‘ which insulin regime ? ’ must be ‘ the one which produces the most satisfactory glycaemic control over 24 hours ' . |
8 | It will be seen from this extract that at a baptism sometimes both parents ' names were recorded , but occasionally only the father 's . |
9 | There is speculation about new political initiatives , each one a triumph of hope over 20 years ' experience . |
10 | As that course had not been taken , the sentence of three years ' detention took effect , by reason of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , 5.1B(S) as a sentence of 12 months ' detention , and the excess of the sentence over 12 months ' was remitted . |
11 | The poet John Clare 's father was a country labourer in Northamptonshire who managed to secure for his son around three months ' schooling a year . |
12 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
13 | Not exactly the sort of thought you wanted to pass on to the police at a time when two boys ' bodies had been found . |