Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw Piers 's helmet lying on the track , so I knew whose car it was … |
| 2 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 3 | Earned PhD in agricultural science , preferably in plant breeding or agronomy ; minimum of 10 years ' experience in agricultural research and training ; three years ' experience working in a multidisciplinary team in a developing country , international organisation , or bilateral program ; management experience ; ability to work collaboratively with scientists of different disciplines and nationalities . |
| 4 | We will introduce a credit-based system , enabling students to achieve a diploma after the equivalent of two years , with the option of a further one or two years ' study leading to a degree . |
| 5 | A quick visit to the Roaches the day after Buxton revealed dozens of the climbers ' cars stretching along the road , and gritstone 's most sculptural crag crawling with their occupants . |
| 6 | You 'll have the sharp improvement in shareholders ' funds resulting from the write back of good will on the Elserver disposal and the consequent reduction in net borrowings , from four hundred and five to a hundred and eighteen million . |
| 7 | The main reason for the decline in housebuilding in the public sector is the strict control of local authorities ' capital spending by the central government , as part of the government 's attempt to control overall public expenditure . |
| 8 | There were a good many farmers ' sons going in the doors of University College today for the first time . |
| 9 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 10 | Isobel Mitchell , one of the organisers of a petition signed by a third of the islands ' adults calling for an open inquiry to be held by a sheriff , said the secrecy was astonishing . |
| 11 | A CHURCH leaders ' dream arising from the nightmare of Northern Ireland 's ‘ troubles ’ is about to become a reality . |
| 12 | In his Sutton Place apartment overlooking the East River , with ships ' lights nosing past the windows and the walls hung with a splendidly eerie collection of Magritte paintings , there was a permanent welcome on the mat . |
| 13 | It may be helpful to know that the courts have treated the following as contracts of sale contracts : to make and supply ships ' propellers according to a specification , Cammell Laird v. Manganese Bronze & brass ( 1934 H.L. ) ; to prepare and supply food in a restaurant , Lockett v. A. & m . |
| 14 | At that stage Stoddards was one of the largest laundries in the country , servicing the life jackets and blankets from ships ' convoys returning to the Clyde . |
| 15 | They met after care assistant Gillian , of Aintree , put an ad in a Forces ' newspaper asking for a pen-pal a year ago . |
| 16 | At the east end of the south side of the De La Warr vault at Withyham , Sussex , is a group of children 's coffins dating from the early seventeenth century . |
| 17 | You wo n't have to spend the entire holiday peering into that steamy little porthole , watching the children 's vests revolving in the suds . |
| 18 | and you can still hear the children 's voices wafting through the double glazing . |
| 19 | I could almost smell the peat and oil from the lamps ; the flour and the sugar in the big bins and sacks ; and hear children 's voices echoing through the rambling old house . |
| 20 | ‘ In addition , the performance of the Ladybird Disney range must rate as the single most dramatic development in children 's book retailing over the past 12 months . ’ |
| 21 | His particular desire had been to widen pupils ' science learning from a mainly laboratory and experimental base towards other methods of enquiry . |
| 22 | Adjoining was the travellers ' room belonging to The Red Lion Hotel . |
| 23 | SCOTLAND suffered mixed fortunes yesterday with the women 's side romping to a 138-82 win over Ireland in the opening game of the Home International series in Perth , while in the men 's British championships at Swansea , the Scots were left empty-handed . |
| 24 | There is no women 's Utopia lurking in the shrubbery Although Labour has captured the election initiative on feminist issues , ROBIN LEE remains unconvinced . |
| 25 | Young nobles from the court , their horses ' harness shining in the sunlight , rode through with hawks , falcons and peregrines perched on their wrists , cruel faces hidden by small leather hoods , jesses tinkling like the bells of a tiny church . |
| 26 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
| 27 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 28 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters belonging to the last farm on the road they found Matt drinking tea while he awaited their arrival . |
| 29 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |