Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the defendants ' solicitor reasonably believed that the plaintiff 's solicitor had waived the privilege that attached to the reports . |
| 2 | After that , the parents ' involvement often continues and may escalate . |
| 3 | Simpsons ' directors yesterday recommended that shareholders accept Baldwin 's offer in what is expected to be the conclusion of a bitter struggle for control of the group . |
| 4 | While the seamen 's leaders freely admitted that a national union was the right thing , they also declared that it could not be done . |
| 5 | But dealers ' nerves soon failed and the index fell back to close 9.5 points lower at 2719.7 . |
| 6 | In late August 1832 the West India Merchants ' Committee still attacked as thoroughly improper the abolitionist practice of pledging parliamentary candidates to immediate emancipation and publishing pledge lists in the first post-reform election . |
| 7 | A movement , then nothing ; but the signs of the creatures ' passing still quivered and calmed . |
| 8 | Conservative Members ' speeches today show that they have not learnt the lesson of their hatred of local government . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) That a secure accommodation order could only be made if the provisions of subsection ( 1 ) were satisfied and the justices had to consider the statutory criteria and then formulate their reasons within the criteria ; that the justices ' reasons clearly demonstrated that they had not considered whether the order was necessary to protect the child from harm if he was likely to abscond from other types of accommodation ; and that , therefore , the appeal would have to be allowed but the court would make an interim order restricting the child 's liberty for three weeks within which time the matter should be reheard ( post , pp. 93C–F , 94H — 95B , 96G–H , 98D ) . |
| 10 | Packman has examined the way in which social workers in children 's departments gradually found that good child care practice required not merely the control and care powers possessed under the 1948 Children 's Act but also preventive work to keep children out of ‘ care ’ . |
| 11 | Harman herself warned that men 's libertarianism only meant that women became the common property of the herd , instead of the property of one man . |
| 12 | One of the babies ' mother even said that she would not have another child until my mum had a vacancy ! |
| 13 | But words came halting forth , wanting inventions 's stay ; Invention , nature 's child , fled step-dame study 's blows ; And others ' feet still seemed but strangers in my way . |
| 14 | Estate agents ' advertisements habitually claim that country houses are suitable for every use from country clubs to prestige headquarters . |