Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 2 | For London readers , Shoreditch offers the following gatecrashers ' guide to election night ( assuming that some sort of celebration is in order ) . |
| 3 | It incorporates the latest Solicitors ' Accounts and Accountants ' Report rules ( p 97 ) . |
| 4 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 5 | Try to arrange things in such a way that a player has a few bars ' rest before his solo passage begins . |
| 6 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 7 | Hence the social opportunity cost of using resources in films , the value of the marginal consumption benefits of meals forgone , exceeds the private producers ' opportunity cost of using these resources in films . |
| 8 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 9 | The first floor accommodates the bedrooms for the guests — each bedroom being paired with an en suite bathroom — together with sleeping accommodation for the proprietor and his family , while the ground floor includes a large guests ' lounge , TV room and breakfast room to the east of the main entrance/staircase hall . |
| 10 | Though it involves a few minutes ' paperwork , a worthwhile exercise is to jot down your own personal list of pros and cons , under the headings : ‘ spending now ’ and ‘ spending later ’ . |
| 11 | The Princess Royal , Patron , College of Occupational Therapists , opens the College 's new headquarters , Information & Study Centre at 6-8 Marshalsea Road , London SE1 ; opens the Young Designers ' Centre , The Design Council , 28 Haymarket , London SW1 ; visits the Headquarters of The Special Escort Group at their Barnes Headquarters , London SW13 ; and , this evening , attends a Banquet at the Guildhall given by the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of the knitting frame by William Lee . |
| 12 | If the Bank restricts its Treasury Bill issue and sells longer-dated securities , this reduces the commercial banks ' cash reserves , and thus restricts their capability of expanding bank deposits . |
| 13 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 14 | The National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital produces an excellent parents ' pack which includes a comic showing young children what to expect in hospital . |
| 15 | Whatever the merits of that view , its popularity lessens the financial markets ' confidence in the system ; and without that confidence the system is weakened . |
| 16 | Newcastle , the hot-bed for local fell running , supplies Edinburgh-based Richard Rodgers who has performed many times for Northern Ireland and Willowfield 's George Morris — making his debut at this level — completes the senior mens ' team . |
| 17 | Newcastle , the hot-bed for local fell running , supplies Edinburgh-based Richard Rodgers who has performed many times for Northern Ireland and Willowfield 's George Morris — making his debut at this level — completes the senior mens ' team . |
| 18 | Yet , and here Burgess partly reflects the early sociologists ' emphasis on the new forms of collective organisation , this area of deterioration ‘ is also one of regeneration , as witness the mission , the settlement , the artists ’ colony , radical centers all obsessed with the vision of a new and better world' . |
| 19 | The fact that American long-term government bond yields remain higher than those in Germany , even though its short-term rates are less than half Germany 's , reflects the financial markets ' fears that inflation is about to flare , along with concerns about the fate of the administration 's budget-reducing package . |
| 20 | The report — which examines the civil servants ' handling of the sale — is understood to question why British Aerospace was the only main bidder where detailed and full inquiries were made . |
| 21 | Ashton has also found a delicious use for the ordinary class-room petits battements sur le cou depied when Cinderella parodies the Ugly Sisters ' dancing lesson . |
| 22 | This is an indictable offence which carries a two years ' prison sentence . |
| 23 | There 's an astoundingly dark deep gorge dividing Ben Alder and Aonach Beag called the Bealach Dubh , through which runs an eerie stalkers ' path . |