Example sentences of "' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Worthing hopes to convert four of its eight dustcarts with sponsorship from the Institute of Grocery Distribution , the supermarkets ' think-tank , to extend the service to half the town . |
| 2 | It is clear that in the eyes of Jesus ' contemporaries the cross was a contemptuous symbol . |
| 3 | She left her girls ' boarding school ( St Mary 's , Calne ) without any notion of saving the planet , and did a number of well-bred girls ' things in London and Paris — Harrods ' toy department , a cordon bleu course , door-to-door sales , modelling — before starting what she regards as her first proper job , in an advertising agency 's information department . |
| 4 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 5 | A waiting list for one of Doreen Copas ' daytime classes from the ‘ 83–84 session formed the nucleus of another new Class . |
| 6 | As president of the USSR , he signed a special decree , instructing the Congress of Peoples ' Deputies to ‘ place the property of the CPSU under protection ’ . |
| 7 | On the very day of the Manifesto a central strike committee in the capital proclaimed itself the St Petersburg Soviet ( Council ) of Workers ' Deputies . |
| 8 | On the very day of the Manifesto a central strike committee in the capital proclaimed itself the St Petersburg Soviet ( Council ) of Workers ' Deputies . |
| 9 | He attempted to use the union structures to guide developments , calling on Dec. 9 for a Congress of Peoples ' Deputies to be convened to discuss the Minsk agreement . |
| 10 | WILLIAMS ' CASE : MEMBERS DISSENT OVER ADOPTION |
| 11 | Egerton was impressive in England 's win over Fiji last weekend and , with Wasps ' Dean Ryan recovering from a broken arm , the Bath player is now the only realistic candidate for the No.8 position . |
| 12 | With Mike Teague , Mick Skinner and John Hall out of contention , the blindside role is between the Northampton back-rower and Wasps ' Dean Ryan . |
| 13 | The coroners ' verdicts for these deaths fall into the three categories of suicide , undetermined , and accidental . |
| 14 | I should be interested to hear readers ' verdicts on the matter . |
| 15 | France , Germany and the UK also expressed concern at the courts ' verdicts . |
| 16 | Buyers ' verdicts |
| 17 | Under the window was deep porcelain sink stained with the detritus of seventy years ' washing-up and impossible to clean adequately . |
| 18 | The control panel was build and factory tested at Daniels ' Larbert premises in Stirlingshire . |
| 19 | The council makes all the decisions which concern the society 's policy , but on major issues , the members ' opinions are sought through ballots and general meetings . |
| 20 | The editor is not bound to agree with readers ' opinions and reserves the right to edit letters |
| 21 | The editor is not bound to agree with readers ' opinions and reserves the right to edit letters . |
| 22 | THE stockbrokers ' opinions summarised here are their views on some of the market 's most widely-held shares . |
| 23 | As the chart shows , the four weeks of the campaign have had almost no effect on voters ' opinions about which party could best handle the country 's non-economic as well as economic problems . |
| 24 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 25 | listen to group members ' opinions and check that they have been understood |
| 26 | The editor is not bound to agree with readers ' opinions and reserves the right to edit letters . |
| 27 | Throughout their secondary school careers , pupils are often persuaded to repeat their teachers ' opinions rather than to develop their own points of view . |
| 28 | It became a mere echo of the old governing classes ' opinions . |
| 29 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 30 | If you are genuinely hearing others ' opinions then you must be open to influence from them , so you might have to adjust your goalposts . |