Example sentences of "be [verb] in [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 2 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 3 | Aimed at safeguarding children from the harmful effects of cigarette smoking , the guidelines of the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering suggest that babies under two and children with respiratory problems should not be placed in smokers ' homes . |
| 4 | The centre will be housed in doctors ' old residences and Joy Gibson , senior social worker for mental health , will head the team . |
| 5 | Investment in training will therefore be discouraged , and managers are similarly discouraged from causing the company to engage in research and development and other projects the return from which will only be reflected in managers ' rewards in the long term . |
| 6 | He stresses the participatory nature of training and the need for it to be grounded in teachers ' own priorities . |
| 7 | The following are two examples from brochures in the early 1990s which were distributed to parents and local businesses , and were even to be found in doctors ' and dentists ' waiting rooms . |
| 8 | Bibliographies should be encouraged in pupils ' work to be able to monitor the impact and effective use of the library . |
| 9 | All this chapter attempts is to offer guidance on how to find the way through the statutory provisions which , understandably , tend to be expressed in accountants ' language rather than that of lawyers . |
| 10 | These colour posters are being displayed in customers ' premises , local authorities , hospitals and schools . |
| 11 | Many a QT Day has featured a session with an exponent of a discipline other than Medau , and this spirit of ecumenism is reflected in members ' own activities . |
| 12 | This is reflected in drivers ' resistance to take advantage of the price differential . |
| 13 | However , the decision to allow the board to continue was cloaked in Ministers ' remarks suggesting that the statutory provision would be short-lived . |
| 14 | The Director of Studies expressed an interest in how much three dimensional ( 3D ) work was included in pupils ' experience and was dissatisfied with what he was told . |
| 15 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |