Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any graduate visiting the University should first make for the Visitors ' Centre , where they can be sure of a warm welcome . |
| 2 | Where do we need for a Kids ' County where are we after ? |
| 3 | Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums . |
| 4 | In 1983 Philip Hollins , audit partner at accountants Hacker Young , was asked if his firm would act as the Halls ' auditor . |
| 5 | When she did n't know about the terrorists ' demands ? ’ |
| 6 | Furthermore , the authorities did not control the supply of all the eligible liquid assets which could count towards the banks ' liquidity ratio . |
| 7 | Some people saw this as an attempt to force the Allies ’ hand , provoking a premature initiation of the expected ground offensive which might then plunge into the Iraqis ' prepared defence in depth . |
| 8 | Mind , I do like the girls I do n't know in the ladies ' room , gelling knives of black hair and saying , ‘ He 's a cunt , that one . ’ |
| 9 | So , if things go right , the men below should know from the dogs ' barking where the boar is coming out and be waiting with their guns to ambush it . |
| 10 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
| 11 | What do you think of the miners ' strike ? was my first ever searching enquiry . |
| 12 | Her husband died in 1909 but Mary Sumner continued to write and speak for the Mothers ' Union , taking a keen interest in all that was being done . |
| 13 | How do you feel about the Women 's Liberation Movement ? |
| 14 | No one can break into the miners ' housing area without ‘ security clearance ’ at the gate by the union guards … the orders from management are completely disregarded and the directions from union leaders are kept to the letter … |
| 15 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |
| 16 | And what kind of work did you do with the tenants ' association ? |
| 17 | In both these cases , should the child appear before a children 's hearing again , then , reading section 4 as it stands , no questions can be asked and no answers received on the earlier offence or the previous hearing or any review hearings or the disposal . |
| 18 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 19 | Thailand 's four labour congresses and unions representing state utility workers and other service sectors threatened to stage a general strike if the government did not accede to the dockworkers ' demands . |
| 20 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 21 | Hayling , Walsh and the others gravely signed undertakings to appear in the prospectus that they would look after the shareholders ' money and manage the company in a ‘ responsible and profitable manner ’ . |
| 22 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 23 | If dialogue is being taped in stereo , the signals from the individual speakers should not be given a pronounced left and right stereo bias as this would conflict with the performers ' relative positioning as seen in shot . |
| 24 | Others in their early 20s will obviously feature in the selectors ' deliberations for the full tour of Australia , starting in November , that marks the beginning of a new era for West Indies more appropriately than the proliferation of one-day tournaments to which Richie Richardson 's reshaped team has been almost exclusively confined . |
| 25 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 26 | Occasionally he would descend to the students ' common room immediately beneath and beg them to make less noise so that he could write . |
| 27 | Or you may transfer to the solicitors ' branch . |
| 28 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 29 | After the birth of the puppies the larvae can also migrate into the puppies ' system and infect them through the mother 's milk ( 4 ) The worms mature passing eggs in the puppies ' faeces which are consumed by the mother and can reinfect her ( 5 ) . |
| 30 | She did not consult with the children 's family doctors , or their class teachers at school . |