Example sentences of "[pos pn] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Our Joe 's got 'is own farm in t'Canadas and there 's our Tamar , no better than she should be , and living like a queen . ’ |
2 | They both limit their coverage to Britain , and this has influenced my own selection of examples ; similar themes to those discussed do occur in other parts of the world . |
3 | ‘ But I 'm scared of my own squad in terms of numbers . |
4 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
5 | I wish to be wholly responsible for my acts , to be master of my fate ; I shall make my own choice of ends , distance myself from my own reactions and learn to manipulate them like external events . |
6 | In my own research into books and reading I have had classes of 15-year-olds write essays on the subject of how they would feel about working in a bookshop . |
7 | ‘ I 've got far too many in my own family for starters . |
8 | My own study of elephants had been restricted to reading the Just So stories , but I was only tagging along . |
9 | I 'm quite capable of making up my own mind on subjects like vegetarianism . |
10 | But before I start with the heavy stuff , I 'd like to tell you my own theory about grown-ups and their DOs and DON'Ts and why a lot of them are not very good at dealing with children . |
11 | On 7 May , the Central Hall of the National Gallery reopens , richly restored as a farewell present from its former Chairman of Trustees , Lord Rothschild . |
12 | Many parents will also have shown by their own reading of newspapers , periodicals , lists , calendars , instructions and leaflets and by their sending and receiving of letters and cards that reading plays an important role in their daily lives . |
13 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities the mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
14 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities their mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
15 | This often manifests itself within decision making in terms of who gets their own way within organisations . |
16 | Power clearly has something to do with ‘ getting one 's own way ’ and the behaviourist approach involves studying actual behaviour to see which groups or individuals get their own way in cases of decision-making where there is an observable conflict . |
17 | The main reason is that banks are continuing to reduce debtors ' interest payments on a growing number of ‘ restructured ’ loans to levels below their own cost of funds . |
18 | Individual work at their own pace from workbooks is not likely to be an effective means to achieve these goals . |
19 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
20 | In that case the employees , who were warehousemen employed by a company which supplied nuts and bolts , wrote to ten of their employers ' suppliers informing them that they intended to start up in business on their own trading in nuts and bolts , and asking for details of their products . |
21 | Any descendant can amend their own range of privileges , although this must be confined to the set allocated by their parent . |
22 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
23 | When teachers ask what librarians can offer in pupil.guidance , chartered librarians often retort that their own knowledge of children 's literature greatly exceeds that of the average teacher ( usually strikingly untutored in such matters ) , and when self-styled educational technologists wonder what a librarian can tell a student about a filmstrip , the retort in recent years has been prompt , and along the same lines . |
24 | ‘ True equality wo n't come until women have the freedom to behave naturally with their own approach to problems . |
25 | The hard mods had already taken to cropped hair by 1964 and the style was taken further by the skinheads , giving rise to their own name of peanuts and other names such as lemons , spy kids and no-heads . |
26 | Erm first , first of all erm Sue has , has just er reminded me that the , the government is , is considering the matter of planning application fees and we understand that there could be some proposals which erm modify the way in which er those fees are set and may give a greater erm autonomy to local authorities to set their own level of fees , in order to allow them to erm recoup erm more of or perhaps even all of the costs of operating the service , but that is something that 's er definitely for the future er and er is , is not entirely . |
27 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
28 | Students will be asked to monitor their own performance in terms of the learning outcomes and performance criteria throughout the module and to undertake an analysis and evaluation of the learning they have gained . |
29 | In group discussions , students will be expected to evaluate their own performance in terms of strengths and weaknesses and to express their own feelings and reactions to the learning gained . |
30 | Church councils will make their own scale of charges for any extras you choose to have , such as bellringing , music or additional heating . |