Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [art] visitors ' " in BNC.

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1 With their pack showing a voracious appetite for running into and beyond the heart of the visitors ' defence , Moseley were able to set up positions from which Hardcastle , who invariably took the correct options throughout , and Harknett were both able to score .
2 Needless to say , the focus of the visitors ' attention was Michael Banks , who , in spite of his fatigue , made himself most affable and approachable .
3 And the Japanese , on the basis of the visitors ' socks , thought that Europeans had none .
4 What , then , was the nature of the visitors ' jurisdiction in disciplinary appeals before 1873 ?
5 The lavish welcome and provision ( despite the inconvenience of the visitors ' arrival during the midday siesta ) are typical of hospitality amongst nomadic desert people even today .
6 This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts .
7 If this was the source of the visitors ' continuing jurisdiction in disciplinary appeals , then it was accepted that they would be amenable to judicial review , their situation being in certain respects comparable to that of a visitor to a university or college who holds that position by virtue of his office , cp the Queen as visitor of the University of Hull : see the Page case [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 , 1279 .
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