Example sentences of "' [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 2 | Having established myself in a job I again became active in boys ' work and took charge of additional Tuxis Boys ' groups in company with Lincoln Lovett , Chief Clerk at the Land Titles Office . |
| 3 | Yeah well you see John 's got about twenty five years ' experience with computers on me . |
| 4 | The curriculum exposure " of the items was studied by asking teachers of one large group of pupils ( N 1,845 ) who took the GT4 test in 1985 to rate their pupils ' experience with items of the kind in the test . |
| 5 | Literature , apart from a reference to the Liverpool poets , is excluded from his working-class pupils ' experience of English in school . |
| 6 | Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) describe BSL users with over 20 years ' experience of work with deaf people who still describe BSL as a ‘ secret language ’ among the deaf , or ‘ their language ’ , or ‘ low verbal language ’ . |
| 7 | The Social Attitudes Survey can shine some light on this relationship , since it collected information on respondents ' experience of unemployment in the past five years , as well as the respondent 's current economic status . |
| 8 | at least 3 years ' experience in Registration including the completion of dossiers . |
| 9 | Similarly , in Hall v Wandsworth Health Authority ( 1985 ) 129 SJ 188 the court said that costs could be awarded when the respondents had been dilatory in answering the plaintiffs ' solicitors ' requests for discovery with no excuse and that leave to appeal from the master 's order as to costs was not necessary . |
| 10 | Hitherto , her parents ' requests for withdrawal of her life-support measures had been denied by the courts on the grounds that the patient 's own wishes in the matter were unclear , and that nobody else was competent to make the decision on her behalf . |
| 11 | Two families who blame their children 's blood cancers on their fathers ' exposure to radiation at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant have launched a test case against British Nuclear Fuels Limited ( BNFL ) . |
| 12 | The book 's format , mixing victims ' accounts with extracts from clinical and government reports and the author 's own powerful descriptions of dignity and suffering , matches the subject ideally . |
| 13 | Diodorus ' narrative of Sicily at this time is in a way superior to that of Thucydides , who in his introduction to the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415–413 undertakes to explain his view that Athens was biting off more than she could chew . |
| 14 | Illustrators include E H Shepard 's drawings from The Wind in the Willows ; John Tenniels ' illustrations from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass ; Martin Leman 's Cat and Teddy Bear pictures from his books ; Tolkien 's drawings from The Lord of the Rings |
| 15 | Such deductibles would create a self-regulating system that brings free-market forces into play , while preserving patients ' freedom of choice of physicians and hospitals . |
| 16 | The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions . |
| 17 | In fact , the tensions between the Church Commissioners and General Synod have as much to do with the Commissioners ' function as mediators between Church and State . |
| 18 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 19 | After only a few minutes ' discussion , Hill and Branson agreed a transfer of the Sex Pistols ' contract from EMI to Virgin , conditional , of course , on the agreement of the group 's manager , Malcolm McLaren . |
| 20 | And can they — by clever use of wing vibration or other sounds and squeaks , jam the bats ' radar by emission of confusing signals ? |
| 21 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
| 22 | Its author , perhaps a canon of St Florent , wrote after the death of Supplicius II , castellan of Amboise , to warn later generations of the family that a repetition of Supplicius ' acts of disloyalty towards his overlords might ruin the family . |
| 23 | Alison Kelly worked with some of her students to carry out a minor evaluation of changes in GIST teachers ' attitudes in comparison with a national sample ( Kelly et al . , |
| 24 | Some large banks have trade development departments which can promote LDCs ' exports in conjunction with various trade agencies . |
| 25 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 26 | In many of her novels May Sinclair was concerned with her characters ' struggle for individuality in a suppressive environment , which was frequently identified with the values of the Victorian society the author herself grew up in . |
| 27 | This protects users ' investments in equipment by enabling them to buy the enhanced management and security of higher Tiers as their requirements dictate . |
| 28 | ONE OF the most highly respected members of the Woodworker Fellowship , STAN THOMAS , in his usual warm hearted , and caring way has offered to respond to members ' queries concerning aspects of cabinet making and joinery . |
| 29 | Greta Burkill did not confine herself to looking after his education , but fought for him to spend a summer with his parents in Venezuela — a country not keen to grant visitors ' visas to Jews at that time . |
| 30 | It would have been interesting to see the teachers ' reactions to questions about profits from burglary or tax evasion rather than investment . |