Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards ' toilet was halfway up the stairs to their room . |
| 2 | Manufacturers ' sizing is variable . |
| 3 | This is particularly useful when manufacturers ' software is available ( as for example SEARCH ON KEY for IBM computers ) to carry out the search automatically . |
| 4 | The staff who carry out internal verification must ensure that for each award good assessment instruments are available , that the assessors ' judgments on candidates ' work are objective , consistent and in line with the standards for the award , and that the appropriate procedures have been followed . |
| 5 | In that situation , a lack of trust in the tutors ' role was inevitable . |
| 6 | Unfortunately Gameson 's remark about listeners ' confusion is true . |
| 7 | The Portadown Local Preachers ' Meeting is older than the Circuit , having been formed in 1835 . |
| 8 | Remarkably , their table I shows that the median symptom scores for episodes of hypoglycaemia during the two months ' treatment are higher with porcine than human insulin for seven of the nine items and identical only for the remaining two ; the scores at the onset of attacks show the greatest difference . |
| 9 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 10 | ( 5 ) Directors ' service agreements of more than 12 months ' duration are open for inspection by any shareholder under CA 1985 , s318 . |
| 11 | However Shakespeare employs several devices to ensure that the audience realises that the adulterers ' behaviour is wrong . |
| 12 | The drivers ' uncertainty was due in part to the vagaries of the train from Khartoum , on which half the town seemed to be waiting . |
| 13 | The brothers ' room was dim and shadowed ; she made out their two shapes with difficulty . |
| 14 | The conclusion that women participate unequally in their husbands ' status is congruent with empirical data on the social , economic and legal treatment of married women . |
| 15 | But if Football Monthly 's readers ' poll is correct , he wo n't be there to enjoy it ! |
| 16 | The authors ' feminism is unaggressive , but it 's there , in deft quotations from her Journal , where the sublime landscapes and satiric humour reflect an essential Regency dichotomy , and in the record of her independence and generosity . |
| 17 | The Childminders ' Association is all in favour of ‘ hugs and cuddles ’ even when a youngster is behaving badly . |
| 18 | In 1987 for example , the value of Victor Products ' ( an engineering group ) pension portfolio was reduced by £400 000 due to poor results of the company , and the fact that a quarter of the funds ' portfolio were self-invested in Victor Products . |
| 19 | The Home Office does n't comment on individual cases , but it 's thought Whitehall was concerned that the Capons ' marriage was one of convenience , which would break up , allowing Mae to stay here . |
| 20 | Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that the following statements made in the directors ' report are unreasonable in all the circumstances : |
| 21 | Given that Callinicos ' book is difficult , and given the probability that despite the seriousness of its argument it is unlikely to be widely debated , I will firstly offer an interpretation of what I think its main themes are , and what they are not . |
| 22 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 23 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 24 | Normally at least one parent remained in the home , or if not , close by ; and in many cases aunts of the parents ' generation were involved in caring . |
| 25 | The parents ' enthusiasm is critical for this work . |
| 26 | Certainly the parents ' ordeal was such that they were under sedation over the incident . |
| 27 | ‘ Not divorced , ’ James went on , as if the precise terms of his parents ' separation were important . |
| 28 | The parents ' aim is straightforward : to get the child to desist from potentially dangerous behaviour , not to teach alternatives . |
| 29 | Profits made by a parents ' association are liable to taxation , registration with the Charity Commissioners enables the association to escape tax liability . |
| 30 | Inevitably , however , the Electrical Contractors ' Association were annoyed if their members were undercut by nationalised Boards . |