Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tone greatly aids the researchers ' understanding of Creole grammar , which appears less simple than was thought . |
| 2 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
| 3 | The prophecy that the chief Ringwraith will not fall ‘ by the hand of man ’ , and his check when he realises Dernhelm is a woman , similarly parallels the Witches ' assurance to Macbeth and his disconcertment when told ‘ Macduff was from his mother 's womb/Untimely ripped . ’ |
| 4 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 5 | A young woman from Lyons reported that she refuses to visit Paris without her friend who has been to Paris more often and understands the Parisians ' sign language better . |
| 6 | And one from Scotland represents the philanthropists ' view : ‘ We would prefer to depart in plain , ‘ off the rack ’ , coffins and so allow the savings to be devoted to charity . |
| 7 | The legal doctrine of legislative supremacy articulates the courts ' commitment to the current British scheme of parliamentary democracy . |
| 8 | To the west of this space lies the guests ' dining-room , a large kitchen incorporating a dining area for the family , a pantry , living-room , utility room and small office adjoining the secondary entrance ( Fig 59 ) . |
| 9 | Looking for them in BMA House only emphasises the juniors ' ignorance of the enormous amount of work put in on their behalf by all sections of the profession . |
| 10 | This weakens the splitters ' argument that to reconstitute high-level meaning from the basic ingredients requires only the right recipe . |
| 11 | In this connection it is worth bearing in mind that a hospital birth will be recorded in the registration district in which the hospital stands and not in the district which contains the parents ' home . |
| 12 | Has the Conservatives ' emphasis on strong policing and punishment succeeded where the supposedly soft approach of the Labour Party had failed ? |
| 13 | Labour candidate Ashok Kumar claims he has the shopworkers ' support for his party 's minimum wage policy . |
| 14 | Labour candidate Ashok Kumar claims he has the shopworkers ' support for his party 's minimum wage policy . |
| 15 | That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction . |
| 16 | If the court accepts the creditors ' petition and grants a winding up order the company will come under the control of the Official Receiver ( a civil servant from the Department of Trade and Industry known as the OR ) . |
| 17 | Sue Grayson Ford wants the Photographers ' Gallery to be the busiest place in London in terms of excitement , ideas , artists , photographers and audiences . |
| 18 | Taylor Page reviews the animals ' habitat , tracks , droppings , voice , antler development identification , food , herding and so on . |
| 19 | This definitely applies to the boys and the saying , ‘ The Banality of Evil ’ also describes the boys ' behaviour . |
| 20 | When Glóin describes the dwarves ' urge to revisit Moria we can not be sure whether this is the prompting of Sauron from outside or dwarvish greed and ambition from inside . |
| 21 | There are no external examinations — assessment is internal , designed to guidelines provided by SCOTVEC , and measures the candidates ' achievement in the Outcomes . |
| 22 | The fact that these have spiralled up from £10 million in 1978 to about £2 billion this year , simply confirms the cynics ' view that the government has little grasp of cause and effect . |
| 23 | As a mother , she says she sees the parents ' point of view . |
| 24 | Other speakers at the conference pointed out that over-abstraction from rivers leads to a falling rate of flow which critically affects the rivers ' ecology , and they warned the situation may deteriorate as water continues to increase in the 1990s . |
| 25 | Any change in rock porosity caused by the dissolution or precipitation of minerals when fluid flows through sedimentary or fractured basement rocks affects the rocks ' permeability , and hence how fast fluid flows through the rocks and what volume is transmitted . |
| 26 | The leaked federation document , from Ian Hughes , its director in Yorkshire and Humberside , shows the employers ' strategy as agreed by the federation management board three weeks ago . |
| 27 | The narratorial simile guides the reader ; its deletion shows the peoples ' world-view . |
| 28 | When bankers say that a company is ‘ leveraged ’ , they mean that the company 's debt greatly exceeds the owners ' equity or share in the company . |
| 29 | Teacher-student interaction is present and the actual carrying out of an online search increases the students ' understanding of the concepts of information retrieval . |
| 30 | One of Spiegelman 's boldest frames shows their bodies dangling among trees at one side of a wood that also holds , on the far side , the Spiegelman family car in which Vladek , 40 years on , recounts the girls ' story to his son . |