Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
2 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
3 | The limits and possibilities of such bargaining are shown to depend on complex interactions between the actors ' strategies . |
4 | Phonogram are offering a reward of sorts for info about the shirts ' whereabouts and anyone who 's got something to say should give the boys in blue at Belgrade Road station a call on 021 626 4010 . |
5 | The notes about the soldiers ' costumes are scribbled all round the edge of a sketch showing what he wanted . |
6 | Tug knew that that last bit about the terrorists ' demands was a lie . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
9 | Arthur had eaten large helpings of scampi and steak-and-kidney pudding , refrained from the damson pie as a gesture , and taken his mind off the others ' plates by saying that they would do the film if he and Fred were allowed to write it , direct it , find the props , and put together the sound track . |
10 | That capital market imperfections might create discrepancies between share price and underlying value is a significant point , however , because it indicates a possible divergence between the shareholders ' interests and the general interest in economic efficiency in the long term . |
11 | Welsh Tennis review WELSH junior international Claire Bullen Evans of Prestatyn launched her bid for the womens ' singles crown at the North Wales Open Tennis Championship in Prestatyn with a no-nonsense performance . |
12 | Aficionados of art and antiques will make a bee-line for the towns ' museums and art galleries . |
13 | At the international level by world revolution which , by breaking the isolation of the workers ' states , will provide an effective antidote to bureaucratization . |
14 | By the creek , the main force of the islands ' fighters was gathered for the simultaneous assault on Belmont , which was shaking the ground even at this range , like the bass drum of a ceremonial band . |
15 | It would have included responsibility for the finance , organization and administration of the Magistrates ' courts , and for criminal legal aid . |
16 | Not only did he quite genuinely want to ease the distress of the hostages ' relatives but Reagan was well aware of the damaging analogy to his own political fortunes when comparing this hostage crisis to that suffered by Carter . |
17 | Certain information relating to each of the properties , including details of title and the results of recent local authority searches , available for inspection at the offices of the vendors ' solicitors ; |
18 | But by August 1958 both sides realized that world opinion was turning against them , partly as a result of the scientists ' warnings , partly out of revulsion and fear , partly because nuclear disarmament had begun to be a popular political issue — and nothing makes a politician have second thoughts faster than the awareness that he might be losing votes . |
19 | The pale round blobs of the humans ' faces appeared at the dusty windows of the shed . |
20 | Even more crucially , the TUC 's tactics had turned the press against them and provoked the opposition of the nurses ' negotiators . |
21 | Fourthly , general practitioners are the most logical agent of the patients ' demands . |
22 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |
23 | In the first half of the nineteenth century , the age-old struggle to reconstitute an ancient text from imperfect manuscript copies was , for the first time , given a proper basis : methodical study of the manuscripts ' interrelationships . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | The regional public relations officer for the Hampshire incorporated Law Society Richard Newson , has fears about the future of the magistrates ' courts . |
26 | Protective monocles were squeezed into the orbits of the combatants ' eyes . |
27 | Cardinal Jozef Glemp , the primate of Poland , claimed that the 1987 agreement under which the nuns at the Carmelite convent would be re-located to an inter-faith centre nearby , had been negotiated by " incompetent " people and was a violation of the nuns ' rights . |
28 | " The following morning the Deputation again visited the School previous to the Scholars being dismissed for the Midsummer Holidays , and having inspected the Book of Entry of the Scholars ' Admissions & c we found that the whole number of 150 had been received into the School — that on the day of examination 141 were present and the remaining 9 absent from suspension or illness and one by death . " |
29 | Common factors uncovered so far include a history of carrying cargoes of coal and iron , and damage to the side of the ships ' holds . |
30 | She now moved away from the case and looked at a list attached , low down , on the wall to the side of the smokers ' requisites demonstration case . |