Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a growing trend towards greater protection for journalists ' sources in Europe , according to Ms D'Souza . |
| 2 | There are other provisions of the 1981 Act which have either created difficulties in practice ( as in the case of s.8 which is headed ‘ Confidentiality of Jury 's Deliberations ’ ) or which have been interpreted restrictively ( as in the case of s.10 , which is concerned with the protection of journalists ' sources of information ) . |
| 3 | There was no article concerning the freedom of the press and the bans on journalists ' activities were broadened . |
| 4 | There was no article concerning the freedom of the press and the bans on journalists ' activities were broadened . |
| 5 | Journalists ' associations compared the seizing of the tapes to China intercepting satellite transmissions to track down ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ . |
| 6 | The public survey echoed the journalists ' views on British companies — but only one in 20 thought ICI was doing enough to reduce its effect on the environment . |
| 7 | If you can be as … affected as you seem to have been by answering journalists ' questions , perhaps I 'd be wiser to wait for publication of results , like everyone else . |
| 8 | Haughey 's resignation came after the speaker of the Senate and former Justice Minister , Sean Doherty , revealed that Haughey had been fully informed of the tapping of two journalists ' telephones by police in 1982 in an effort to trace Cabinet leaks . |
| 9 | Marvellous similes flowed from journalists ' pens . |
| 10 | Sweden goes furthest , with legislation focusing on informers ' rather than journalists ' rights , and imposing an obligation on those working in the media to protect sources of confidential information . |
| 11 | Much the same thing occurs in New Statesman & Society , but there is a significant shift here in that we begin to see cultural products ( or rather questions raised by them ) being discussed outside of the journal 's cultural space — in the editorials and in guest journalists ' comments . |
| 12 | THE Times newspaper axed more than 20 journalists ' jobs yesterday . |
| 13 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 14 | Employers have no right to bargain away journalists ' reputations without their consent merely because some sacrifice of those reputations would be in the interests of management . |
| 15 | By the 1930s , as cinema became more popular , the Halls ' fortunes waned . |
| 16 | The searchlights from the guards ' boxes competed feebly with the storm still sizzling blue in the distance . |
| 17 | Holly saw the confusion of the guards ' officers and NCOs , the way that instructions were given in a frantic pitch and confronted by the sullen amusement of the zeks . |
| 18 | The MMC ( 1980 : 97 ) found that in some guards ' depots , twelve-hour days were routinely worked , and that , apparently , ‘ those staff who wish to work their Sundays mostly have the opportunity to do so every other Sunday without strict regard to the numbers actually required to operate train services ’ . |
| 19 | The next day , while we were exercising , Brian kept watch under the door for the guards ' feet as I tapped out , ‘ We are Brian Keenan and John McCarthy . |
| 20 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 21 | THREE fire engines raced to Buckingham Palace yesterday — to deal with a chip pan blaze in guards ' quarters . |
| 22 | I now felt far more confident and comfortable knowing that I could refuse to go along with the guards ' antics if they really upset me . |
| 23 | While the fleet of Class 87 locomotives and Mk 3 stock was capable of 110mph , the only guards ' vans on the route were old Mk 1 cars restricted to 100mph . |
| 24 | She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam . |
| 25 | The ‘ talking like a lady ’ explanation is a mirror-image of Peter Trudgill 's suggestion — which is based once again on his Norwich informants ' responses to self-evaluation questions — that men give ‘ covert prestige ’ to working-class nonstandard speech , associating its roughness with masculinity . |
| 26 | A comparison of the inner city and outer city informants ' occupations gives a good idea of the relative status of the communities . |
| 27 | Auer 's remark that " It seems to be a rash conclusion to prefer informants ' comments on co-participants ' behaviour to the analyst 's reconstructive work " ( Auer 1984b : 94 ) and Gumperz " view that " I think generally speaking we can not but use informants ' reports " ( 1971 : 112 ) . |
| 28 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 29 | Auer 's remark that " It seems to be a rash conclusion to prefer informants ' comments on co-participants ' behaviour to the analyst 's reconstructive work " ( Auer 1984b : 94 ) and Gumperz " view that " I think generally speaking we can not but use informants ' reports " ( 1971 : 112 ) . |
| 30 | Yet others are associated with the difficulties of accessing informants ' intuitions ; this particular difficulty of course surfaces in phonological work in a somewhat different form ( see further 8.2.1 ) . |