Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a more aggressive line than usual the Scottish Office specialists say that farmers ' cash income is a better comparison . |
| 2 | They acknowledge that parents ' grief , already compounded by guilt that they might have failed to look after their child , can be made still worse by police behaviour suggesting a crime might have been committed . |
| 3 | Heidrick and Struggles ' business took off only with the advent of Gerry Roche , a fiercely ambitious , restless , workaholic whizz kid of the 1950s who had gained a night-school MBA taught by Peter Drucker . |
| 4 | Students respond very positively to placements in industry , and teachers find that students ' confidence , self presentation and maturity are all enhanced by the experience . |
| 5 | I was surprised to hear Tim say that he had heard some owners state that horses ' mouth for sharpness . |
| 6 | Editor , — R H V Jones and colleagues in their follow up study of cancer deaths at home comment that patients ' pain was relieved more effectively than any of the other symptoms , But of the 207 patients in the study , 42 received only moderate relief of pain — and eight had no relief of pain in their final month of life . |
| 7 | Instrumentalists also claim that poulantzas ' conception of the state as the factor of cohesion in the social formation is equally unhelpful . |
| 8 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |