Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims about the beneficial effects of its products on children 's intelligence recently landed a company called Larkhall Natural Health in trouble . |
| 2 | She twined her fingers through Piers 's and tugged him towards the door . |
| 3 | We could not classify patients into Kraemer et al 's group A or B , since this grouping depends on relatives ' naevus status ; not all patients could bring first-degree relatives for examination , and their opinions of relatives ' naevus status were unreliable in those who could be examined . |
| 4 | with their necks like flamingos ' ; |
| 5 | They have visited a brick works , turned their designs into architects ' drawings and are discovering the secrets of drainage and bricklaying . |
| 6 | In 1982 , she joined Guangming Ribao as a reporter , becoming known for her writings on women 's issues and her interviews with leading intellectuals . |
| 7 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 8 | Ultimately , effective child protection is dependent on political will to support both parents and professionals with the resources they need to meet their responsibilities for children 's welfare . |
| 9 | Hotel staff would be asked to note down , on customised documents , their comments on students ' speed , accuracy , stamina , adaptability and demeanour , and the students themselves would contribute to their record of achievement , commenting on what they found hard , different from college , enjoyable or tedious . |
| 10 | From here they must await their wave , drop into it , and be swept beneath the overhang into the cave where they grope around in total darkness filling their bags with birds ' nests . |
| 11 | Pigment granules diffuse within their skins as they become excited and they fight with their colours , circling one another and flexing and quivering their fins like bull-fighters ' capes . |
| 12 | A major feature of Suharto 's budget speech was a call for private companies to offer up to 25 per cent of their shares to workers ' co-operatives , and to facilitate this by providing soft loans . |
| 13 | Homeless young people are sleeping in bus shelters and shop doorways in Redcar and Saltburn and many families are reduced to spending their nights on friends ' floors . |
| 14 | The setting for Crawford 's second Children 's Film Foundation production , Blow Your Own Trumpet , was a Northern mining town and featured Peter Butterworth , well known for his appearances in children 's television programmes . |
| 15 | In the very year when , after taking British citizenship and joining the Church of England , he wrote the famous ‘ Preface ’ to For Lancelot Andrewes ( dedicated to Eliot 's mother ) , Eliot was recalling his own childhood in his introductory remarks to This American World , and his days at Fishermen 's Corner in Gloucester . |
| 16 | This leaves no doubt of his feelings about justices ' powers in other areas of poor relief . |
| 17 | But his definition of style , like Jakobson 's of poetry , fails to allow for its multiplicity and changeability , even if it points to an important possible source of literary effect ; and in his claims concerning readers ' responses he attributes to these a degree of regularity which to many must seem quite unrealistic . |
| 18 | We hope to arrange a tangible recognition of his services to children 's bookselling , but meanwhile , we share with his family sadness at the death of a young man of great ability who achieved much in the time available to him . |
| 19 | Wyatt 's worldly recognition that his ‘ device ’ needed to be changed if he was to continue through the seasons is likely also to have been learned through his parts in kings ' games . |
| 20 | Our analyses of voters ' information levels and their changing political preferences confirm and even strengthen that finding . |
| 21 | During our efforts to spread our ideas about girls ' work we encountered much anti-lesbianism , while at the same time we began to be challenged about our racism by Black women , among whom were some out Black lesbians . |
| 22 | We need to produce materials to match the individual needs of students and curricula ; because this is very time-consuming and difficult , we co-operate at school level by team teaching , by keeping a central indexed pool of locally produced materials , and by intelligent planning , and at out of school level by coordinating our efforts through teachers ' centres and curriculum development schemes . |
| 23 | ( For example , our sections on Bottoms ' and Hall 's analyses indicated how economic decline and the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal gave rise to a resurgence of ‘ law and order ideology ’ . ) |