Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new breed are using boys ' phallic noise toys to take rock in their own direction . |
| 2 | His particular desire had been to widen pupils ' science learning from a mainly laboratory and experimental base towards other methods of enquiry . |
| 3 | If regulation is involved , those charged with performing the surveillance should be seen as responsive to consumer as well as producer interests , if they are to reflect societies ' preferences . |
| 4 | Some traditionalists still send horses to Eire or mainland Europe for this barbarous treatment , but the Bristol research suggests that they 're wasting owners ' money . |
| 5 | Since the introduction of Extended Opening Hours , IBOA has been high-lighting members ' concerns . |
| 6 | While they build schools or refurbish classrooms in one place , they are cutting teachers ' posts in another , despite evident need . |
| 7 | The Metropolitan Police are to adopt MPs ' proposals for a big recruitment drive among black and Asian communities in 1990 . |
| 8 | All estate agents ought to be called Spiders ' Parlours . |
| 9 | Though both might be called guys ' films , there 's a world of difference between the boy 's own homoerotics of Universal Soldier and the deconstructed gangster pathologies of Reservoir Dogs . |
| 10 | ‘ In my opinion , attempting to replicate the past success of Amstrad by gambling on product ideas and building up large stocks in the hope of achieving ‘ blockbuster ’ sales would be putting shareholders ' funds at risk and demoralising for me . ’ |
| 11 | Guitar magazines devote much of their space to equipment reviews that are , nine times out of ten , merely a plug for the manufacturer , when the magazine could be putting subscribers ' money to good use by running more informative and educational articles aimed at the musician eager for knowledge and not glossy adverts ! |
| 12 | This is because that representative may not be an authorised practitioner , and could be putting clients ' money at risk , since an unauthorised practitioner would not be covered by the usual indemnity arrangements that are a requirement of properly authorised practitioners . |
| 13 | The Department of Health says it will be studying doctors ' concerns about underwater birth . |
| 14 | The class teacher will be assessing pupils ' achievement across a range of subjects , and will have a very good idea of the child 's progress and development . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , now that Tanya Donelly ( who wrote it ) is quitting the band , it could yet prove to be Throwing Muses ' swansong . |
| 16 | Both teachers and the school librarian will be monitoring pupils ' responses to 1 ) information skills planning sheets 2 ) the keyword approach to identifying the purpose of , searching for and using information 3 ) using a microcomputer to search for information 4 ) worksheets on note taking , organizing and presenting information A report on the project will be drawn up in Term 3 . |
| 17 | He might be legitimising Goldsmiths ' current practice ( in which , ironically , women are very active participants ) and he might be pandering to a new Europeanisation … but the notion that Arte povera , in this limited manifestation , is ‘ representative of a crucial revolutionary moment — even of the last possible revolutionary moment ’ is a load of cobblers . |
| 18 | CAROL Jones has been appointed Carers ' Support Officer ( Mental Health ) with the Disablement Resource Unit ( MCVS ) , Self-Help Support Team . |
| 19 | Tord Haraldsson from Alingsas , who belongs to the investigating task force , said that similar assaults in Denmark and the US have turned out to be sectarian rituals , where fanatics have been drinking horses ' blood to gain strength . |
| 20 | At the time of the James Committee 's deliberations two research programmes were gaining educators ' attention which confirmed the anxieties of those who set up the Committee . |
| 21 | Men , on the other hand , were granted dependants ' benefits under national insurance in 1922 , plus the married man 's tax allowance from 1919 , on the assumption that a man supporting a wife needed additional tax relief ( in fact the allowance was paid to all men regardless of whether or not their wives worked ) . |
| 22 | For example , regarding prostitutes , the most crucially sexualized women of the time , questions were asked concerning the size of their genitalia , and various medical projects were embarked upon to prove that an enlarged clitoris was a sign of a tendency to prostitution ( in the same way that phrenologists were measuring criminals ' heads ) . |
| 23 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 24 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 25 | If one of our aims is to increase pupils ' understanding of the universal nature of mathematics , then we need to widen the range of examples from which generalisations are drawn . |
| 26 | The starting point is to observe generals ' decisions at war games to identify what good commanders do that poor ones do n't . |
| 27 | But hotting is n't ; apparently it 's considered joyriders ' slang that 's not yet used by the general public . |
| 28 | It 's aim is to simplify vendors ' programmes , so that a customer has to pay only one bill . |
| 29 | The whole point is to open managers ' eyes to the consequences of their own behaviour through observing the behaviour of others . |
| 30 | The other side of the quality coin is safeguarding clients ' interests . |