Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of women do this , they 're very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they , they lay the foundations , right from the very beginning , of boys ' growing up to think of women as kind of household servants . |
| 2 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 3 | There will continue to be problems if science teachers are personally doubtful about girls ' ability to do science well ; even if their doubts are not voiced ( and anecdotal evidence suggests they sometimes are ) , girls are unlikely to respond unless teachers show they believe that girls have something to offer science as well as the reverse . |
| 4 | She used not to be so censorious of others ' behaviour but her own betrayal had , she thought , seared her more than she understood . |
| 5 | Laboratory rodents that spontaneously develop autoimmune type I diabetes did so at a much lower frequency when fed a synthetic chow free of cows ' milk protein , and recently a peptide antigen called p 69 was identified on rat insulinoma cells which cross reacts immunologically with a similar sequence present in bovine , but not human or rat , albumin . |
| 6 | I began to understand some of Holmes ' plan . |
| 7 | Thames TV chief executive Richard Dunn said on Sunday : ‘ The new channel will get a fast and economic start by using one of Thames ’ Astra transponders and by the use of some of Thames ' broadcasting assets . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government are being amazingly generous with taxpayers ' money from 1993 onwards , when although the minimum 20 per cent . |
| 10 | In the original report we mentioned a major licensing deal between SelecTronics and Berlitz and we can now see the concrete results of this in SelecTronics ' product range . |
| 11 | ‘ A bit different from Liveseys ' place , eh ? ’ |
| 12 | Methods of curriculum planning are inseparable from teachers ' thinking about what has to be planned , and the arrival of the National Curriculum is dictating a much more considered and long-term approach than was adopted in at least some of the classrooms we visited ( NCC 1989 , 1991 ; Alexander et al . |
| 13 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 14 | Yeah , er when 's the P A free in freshers ' week next year ? |
| 15 | In terms of the stage of the disease , the majority were Dukes ' stage B ( 35% ) or C ( 33% ) , with only a few in Dukes ' stage A ( 12% ) . |
| 16 | We also made links with the region of in Poland to develop tourist strategy and also links with a number of cities who were very interested in citizens ' participation and are going local initiative . |
| 17 | To plan the strategy Jones and Palmer got together on 7 April with Bart Czirr , a physicist from the University , and Johann Rafelski , a theorist who had been interested in Jones ' work on piezonuclear fusion since 1985 , and who was about to move from Cape Town to the University of Arizona . |
| 18 | Actually , it was an inspired gamble — in his first , albeit injury-hit , season in 1991 Taylor took 54 wickets and last year he grabbed 67 in Northants ' championship chase and suddenly Ted Dexter and the England selectors were knocking on the door . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the data derived from this study about caring is obviously dependent upon respondents ' perception of their status as either carers or non-carers . |
| 20 | A complicity indistinguishable from lovers ' happiness ran through the two of them , not localized but suffused through their frames , like alcohol after exercise . |
| 21 | In June customers will be able to send messages via EDI*Net direct to partners ' facsimile and in December , the addition of SNA3270 will enable IBM users to exchange EDI messages with non-SNA users . |
| 22 | A cute backheeled pass by Ian Muir set John Morrissey free on Rovers ' right . |
| 23 | But other possible responses to the problem would be genuinely scientific on Lakatos ' account . |
| 24 | Given the progression of the companies legislation since that Act , does the foregoing clause comply with the requirement of s 80 of the CA 1985 concerning directors ' authority to issue share capital , and of s 91 concerning the disapplication of the pre-emption provisions of s 89 ? |
| 25 | A healthy distrust since Big Bang in October 1986 of stockbrokers ' research . |
| 26 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 27 | Campbell links our problems of leadership with that of Jesus ' loneliness , and comments : ‘ See , he has been there too and because he identifies with it , he can handle it . |
| 28 | A central plank of the current attack upon education and the teaching profession ( and one which has grown since Callaghan 's Great Debate speech ) is that of employers ' dissatisfaction with educational standards and with the quality of young workers . |
| 29 | If such changes are introduced , in-house benefits such as directors ' dining rooms , sports facilities and so on will be a significantly less attractive means of providing benefits to employees . |
| 30 | Many litigation firms also suffer from the transactional " nature of their practice and find it difficult to build institutional , long-term relationships with clients even where this is possible , particularly where the practice is dependent on referrals from agencies such as Citizens ' Advice Bureaux and law centres where staff changes make relationships difficult to build and maintain . |