Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | My hon. Friends ' constituents should be aware of the exact commitment made by those who are to manage the trust once it is established on 1 |
2 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
3 | Fortunately my fellow walkers ' feet came out in sympathy . |
4 | Western PTTs are setting up in Eastern Europe , often initially to support their multinational clients ' operations there . |
5 | Similar findings were made by Partin et al who reported that 86% of their 74 patients <3 years of age presented with pain , 97% had stool withholding , and 71% were impacted . |
6 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
7 | They walk ponderously in their crimson velvet hoods and black caps , ostrich plumes nodding on their old men 's heads . |
8 | On Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18 the Railway will stage another of its popular Enthusiasts ' Weekends . |
9 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
10 | Perhaps the rail planners could take a leaf out of their Victorian predecessors ' books . |
11 | The two banks then make the necessary adjustments to all their individual customers ' accounts . |
12 | Since the implementation of the relevant sections of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act , social services authorities have integrated the previously separate system of approved schools and remand homes for delinquent children with their ordinary children 's homes . |
13 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
14 | • Bankers who need to understand better their corporate clients ' requirements and to respond with appropriate products and services , |
15 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
16 | At least two of my contemporaries ' mothers were asked where their newborn babies ' tails were . |
17 | Not surprisingly , social workers are very hesitant to use this section and patients do , albeit rather infrequently , continue to deteriorate in the community because of their nearest relatives ' wishes . |
18 | The prosecution asked for costs to be awarded against the defendants but the request was refused — NatWest has paid all its former employees ' costs . |
19 | Tommy Armour is proud of its top-of-the-range ladies ' clubs , the 845s Silver Scot , and having tried a set I can understand why . |
20 | Then there are those raised in a hothouse of their own parents ' ambitions . |
21 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
22 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
23 | Very often PR consultancies only give their own executives ' names , but there are times when a journalist will want to " go straight to the horse 's mouth " and a contact within the client company can be very important . |
24 | Dealers have felt a need to deprecate their own firms ' values , to disassociate themselves from them . |
25 | Once they recognized that their own groups ' discussions were not very different from others , they began corporately to own the curriculum of the new school . |
26 | Such women decided they could only begin to tackle their problems through their own women 's networks . |
27 | ( viii ) Each site could only access its own employees ' records . |
28 | Now the modern Sylvia realized that the family had very little money at that time and that the birthday party given for her was probably quite a meagre affair compared with the boisterous celebrations on her own children 's birthdays . |
29 | This rule is stopping American and United from taking over their ailing rivals ' services . |
30 | ‘ Of course I can , ’ Robbie had insisted , anxious not to hurt her young brothers ' feelings . |