Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even peasants , bounded through their lives mostly by their immediate vicinity , could sometimes travel further afield , whether pursuing a legal claim , like the Mitry group , or about their lords ' business , like the men of St-Germain-des- Prés who owned transport-services between Anjou and the Paris neighbourhood . |
| 2 | A party is regarded as acquiring control if it has the possibility of exercising " decisive influence " on another party in particular by ownership or the right to use all or part of the assets of the other party , or rights which confer decisive influence on the composition , voting or decisions of the other party 's board of directors or of its shareholders ' meetings . |
| 3 | A sizable minority , however , had experienced some degree of negative discrimination as a result either of work structures or of their colleagues ' attitudes and lack of understanding . |
| 4 | Any report which demands more than a full day of your time , or of your subordinates ' , should have written terms of reference . |
| 5 | She now works for herself part-time as a mobile hairdresser , undertaking work at home or in her clients ' own homes . |
| 6 | Perhaps , though regrettably , they are not seen as a central core of independence which may reside elsewhere-'in my head or in my dreams ' . |
| 7 | However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control . |
| 8 | Surviving rules of gilds of laymen suggest that most such associations had a spiritual aspect ; in tenth-century Exeter gildsmen assembled " for the love of God and for our souls ' need , having regard both to the prosperity of our life and also to the days thereafter which we wish to be allotted to us at God 's Judgement " , and gave any member going on pilgrimage overseas five pence from each of his colleagues . |
| 9 | I am making a very simple point : that the material conditions of our lives and of our characters ' lives shape , to a large extent , the way those lives progress . |
| 10 | The thing is her marriage was against her in-laws ' wishes and against my parents ' . |
| 11 | Major urban and rural areas tend to differ greatly in life styles and in their inhabitants ' perceptions . |
| 12 | Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House . |
| 13 | This exercises all the muscles in the body , and in your neighbours ' as well ! 6 . |
| 14 | The women dress themselves on credit and without their husbands ' knowledge , they sign bills which , when they fall due , are fatal to their virtue . |
| 15 | The aim is to relate their educational achievements to their experiences at school and to their parents ' help at home . |
| 16 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 17 | Venezuela 's petro-economy had been knocked into stagflation by falling oil prices and by his predecessors ' free-spending ways . |
| 18 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 19 | Strictly speaking , Freud 's view was that any individual superego is the internalization not of their parents as such , but of their parents ' superego . |
| 20 | It meant that my mother 's workload greatly increased , but with my uncles ' help we struggled on . |