Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exemption is also given to certain specialized vehicles , including : public service vehicles , hackney carriages , police vehicles , fire engines , ambulances , vehicles being used with trade plates , local authority vehicles used for road cleansing and the collection or disposal of refuse , vehicles used solely on airports , showmen 's goods vehicles and their trailers . |
| 2 | More than 30 traction and showmen 's engines , plus road rollers ; historic commercial vehicles ; stationary engines ; fire engines ; vintage cars and motor bikes ; sales and ephemera stands ; old tractors and farm machinery and a real ale beer tent , are some of the many attractions on offer . |
| 3 | Vice-chairman Geoffrey White said that the showmen 's vans on the western end of the site should be cleared by April next year . |
| 4 | The Pyloriset Latex ( Orion Diagnostica , Finland ) and the Helico-G ( Porton Cambridge , Maidenhead , UK ) tests were carried out according to the manufacturers 's instructions and ad recently described . |
| 5 | The spirit of true craftsmanship is , however , best seen in those items which , as far as is known , were unique in their time and which required all the craftsmen 's skills to achieve . |
| 6 | But the craftsmen 's talents were crippled by unemployment , while high taxation on the former governing classes made it difficult for them to commission buildings or goods of a quality acceptable to Lutyens and his contemporaries . |
| 7 | Joseph Massie 's well-known survey of 1759 emphasised two main differentials : that craftsmen 's wages were higher than those of common labourers , while in both categories wages were higher in London than in the provinces . |
| 8 | Semi-skilled men were ‘ made up ’ , and did craftsmen 's jobs , and pensioners were recalled on a full or part-time basis . |
| 9 | Housed in a former granary and cowshed , the displays show 19th and early 20th century material from the homes , farms , offices and craftsmen 's workshops of North Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | Showell Styles 's sea-stones , moderately coloured by invention , provide entertainment in the broadest sense . |
| 11 | The stark events of A Fine Boy for Killing are no more and no less authentic than the events of Showell Styles 's novels or those of O'Brian and Forester . |
| 12 | They had even witnessed the confiscation of the clergy 's goods and chattels to defray the nation 's expenses : a potent lesson for the future . |
| 13 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 14 | The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well . |
| 15 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 17 | The founder of Tiron , preaching celibacy in Normandy about 1100 , was nearly lynched by the clergy 's wives , as had been the archbishop of Rouen , no less , when promulgating a decree against them in 1072 . |
| 18 | Restored quarrymen 's cottages at Gloddfa Ganol show the social background of the industrial workers . |
| 19 | What was worst for Jackie , in a way , was the follow-up : the melancholy task faced by his wife Helen as she and Courage 's wife Sally had to pack up Piers 's things back at the Bouwes Palace . |
| 20 | Purely from a financial perspective , have you any idea how much more valuable the cottage will be when it 's known to be one of Piers 's creations ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll be in touch , ’ he said loudly before he left , and Alyssia shook her head in frustration , finding it difficult to be angry , even though he had blackened her yet more in Piers 's eyes . |
| 22 | They had a band and a guard of honour outside the station , their backs to a row of railwaymen 's cottages . |
| 23 | The Peak District hostels , for example , include the former home of a wealthy quarry owner ( Buxton ) , an old manor house ( Hartington ) , a row of railwaymen 's cottages ( Crowden ) , a 19th-century Co-op store ( Youlgreave ) , a 15th-century hall ( Castleton ) , and a flax mill ( Gradbach Mill ) . |
| 24 | There are hundreds of small hideous terrace houses in livid brick , a few chapels and railwaymen 's clubs , humped in the flat countryside around the railway workshops and one of the most dangerous bridges in the country . |
| 25 | Have Labours 's modernizers run into the buffers ? |
| 26 | Before this trial took place , " The Independent " came into possession of the manuscript of " spycatcher " and published a much more detailed account of the books 's contents . |
| 27 | Gentlemen 's jaws chomp . |
| 28 | Karr smiled , returning the old gentlemen 's bows before allowing one of the waiters to pull a chair out for him . |
| 29 | A formal means of reaching ‘ gentlemen 's agreements ’ between central and local government was created through the agency of consultative councils on local government finance . |
| 30 | ‘ Gentlemen 's agreements ’ and understandings between local officials and central government might work with Conservative councils but not with most Labour ones . |