Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth Marxist strategy for explaining workers ' quiescence under advanced capitalism is much more materialistic , and in keeping with the central thrust of classical Marxism . |
| 2 | Luckily , the Devil cares not for checking visitors ' bus passes to see if they 're over-the-hill and struggling down the slope on their Zimmer frames . |
| 3 | Nor , Himmelfarb ( 1968 p 77 ) argued , was he concerned about transgressing occupants ' rights since , as a Utilitarian , he believed that " there was no such thing as right at all " . |
| 4 | Its spokesman , David White , told The Art Newspaper , that it had ear-marked the notional £20 million to be raised from the sale of the pictures for modernising students ' rooms , putting in lifts and so on , but that a large proportion would be invested to provide funds for future use . |
| 5 | A test for diagnosing pupils ' difficulties would fall into this category . |
| 6 | The use of Macassar oil ( derived from the fruit of trees found in the Macassar district of the Celebes Islands ) for dressing men 's hair was popularized by A. Rowland , of Hatton Garden , London , who advertised his product very extensively , and succeeded in driving bear's-grease preparations off the market . |
| 7 | A primary goal in establishing some common ground must be to agree each teacher 's role and responsibility for meeting children 's needs . |
| 8 | A pivotal point for determining the effectiveness of a whole-school approach for meeting children 's needs will be the extent to which the staff 's awareness of their own prejudices , bias and misunderstandings is challenged . |
| 9 | To nominate a teacher ‘ head of special needs ’ can confine the responsibility for meeting children 's needs to a mere handful of staff . |
| 10 | The money was awarded to the Resolution Trust Corporation , the government agency responsible for buying up failed savings and loan institutions and for guaranteeing depositors ' savings . |
| 11 | Since the feminist perspective is necessarily critical , feminist philosophy is not a way of articulating women 's experience in parallel with men 's : it is not a form of relativism . |
| 12 | One way of achieving this is the means of using nurses ' personal and life experience in the learning situation . |
| 13 | This will discuss various ways of using candidates ' course work for English , maths , and computing Standard Grades as evidence for achievement in communication , numeracy , and information technology modules . |
| 14 | These officers were accused by complainants of failing to remain impartial , of adopting hostile and dismissive attitudes towards them and of using complainants ' own statements as evidence against them in court . |
| 15 | One of the difficulties of using politicians ' or military leaders ' diaries is that they are always likely to be personal justifications of their own actions at the time , and of course they give the impression that the whole of history consists of political intrigue or war . |
| 16 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 17 | In an exuberant interview , David Dimbleby calls the results programme ‘ a drama [ in which ] heroes and villains rise and fall ’ ; elsewhere in the supplement , Sissons speaks of the excitement of seeing politicians ' masks slip , and backroom boss Philip Campbell describes his studio as a ‘ theatre-in-the-round ’ , attracting viewers to ‘ gather round David Dimbleby 's stage to see the plot unfold through his narrative ’ . |
| 18 | Schools were urged to recognise the importance of ascertaining pupils ' views both generally and more specifically in relation to the development of a behaviour policy by the school , and to instil a sense of ‘ belonging ’ amongst pupils . |
| 19 | He accused the Supreme Council of allowing citizens ' political and social rights to be flouted , and of using " slogans of democracy as a cover for a policy aimed at restoring a bourgeois system " . |
| 20 | A BTG spokesman says that the ‘ business nose of the company ’ should be the polyelectrolyte method of purifying pigs ' blood , which has been perfected by the company . |
| 21 | Bush condemned the bill as " an open invitation to fraud and corruption " , and justified his action on the grounds of upholding states ' rights . |
| 22 | He thought the firing of horses should be prohibited by Act of Parliament , and he condemned the practice of nicking horses ' tails . |
| 23 | This is not surprising , as the Norwood Report in 1943 stressed the importance of relating boys ' education to the labour market , but emphasised that girls ' schooling must relate to their eventual place in the family . |
| 24 | We want to know what her paintings are about — how images of Penelope , Cornelia Mother of the Gracchi , Cleopatra , Andromache and many others were being used to explore the possibility of representing women 's intellect , courage , political judgement as well as their passions , pride or grief in that contradictory and fluid moment of western European history . |
| 25 | Boards are cumbersome bureaucratic legal bodies best left to the cumbersome bureaucratic legal task of representing share-holders ' interests . |
| 26 | Some means of checking companies ' compliance with the code is seen as essential if real improvements are to be made across all listed companies rather than in those which are already well run . |
| 27 | Such arrangements are also often associated with the custom of keeping men 's and women 's worlds sharply segregated , although as Saifullah Khan ( 1976 ) points out in her discussion of purdah in Bradford , the luxury of remaining truly separate could only ever be afforded by the comparatively wealthy . |
| 28 | Because of the difficulty in placing a trolley wheel on the wire during the blackout and the risk of knocking passengers ' hats off or worse , when pulling the pole down , or the risk of a broken spring inside the trolley mast , one of the J Type cars was fitted with metal hoops over the ends of the upper deck in August 1916 . |
| 29 | The value of talk in all subjects as a means of promoting pupils ' understanding , and of evaluating their progress , is now widely accepted . |
| 30 | It is the Government 's view that the Commission should be thinking of ways of saving taxpayers ' money , not justifying fresh reasons for expending it . |