Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 2 | Pc Keith Black went into the toilet with Mr. Smith and they found the figure to be Mr. Thurgood , wearing a T-shirt which fitted the soldiers ' description . |
| 3 | Chelmsford Magistrates ' Court was told how the men had fitted special switches which de-activated the vehicles ' tacographs — the machine which records how long the driver spends actually driving and how long at rest . |
| 4 | Chelmsford Magistrates ' Court was told how the men had fitted special switches which de-activated the vehicles ' tachographs — the machine which records how long the driver spends actually driving and how long at rest . |
| 5 | Although she no longer dominated the proceedings , Tamar was certain that it was the older woman 's presence which dampened the workers ' enthusiasm and made the meal and the dancing which followed , restrained and formal . |
| 6 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 7 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 8 | Their statement was interpreted as an attempt to distance themselves from the so-called ‘ Central Belt activists ’ who withdrew their strongly worded motion at the executive and voted with the six on the statement drawn up by Councillor Rob Gibson which regretted the MPs ' actions . |
| 9 | ASTUDENT accused of cheating in his degree exam wrote complete gobbledegook which matched the examiners ' draft solution to maths problems in the paper , an inquiry was told yesterday . |
| 10 | During his time at the BBC , when the Home Secretary , Leon Brittan , asked the Corporation not to show a documentary in the Real Lives series dealing with extremist politicians in Northern Ireland , it was Rees-Mogg who led the governors ' demand that the management acquiesce . |
| 11 | Officers who found the youngsters ' bodies were horrified by the scene and some wept as they left the flat in Tottenham , North London . |
| 12 | Last October he criticised the governors ' decision to extend Mr Hussey 's term of office by five years . |
| 13 | Last October he criticised the governors ' decision to extend Mr Hussey 's term of office by five years . |
| 14 | Audiences have discovered what comes after those exhilarating overtures which kept the operas ' names alive in the world 's concert-halls . |
| 15 | A WOMAN who had the slimmers ' disease anorexia nervosa died thinking she was fat . |
| 16 | THE man who pulled the Conservatives ' favourite advertising agency , Saatchi & Saatchi , back from the brink , yesterday confirmed his departure . |
| 17 | He criticized the judiciary for having lacked the " moral courage " to protect civil liberties , and on behalf of the Chilean state he asked the victims ' relatives for forgiveness . |
| 18 | For the most part it concerned the speakers ' contemporary experience . |
| 19 | And of course he had the nurses ' pay |
| 20 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 21 | They unanimously held that on its wording it limited the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacing the seed . |
| 22 | For the first time I noticed the brothers ' yarmulkes in the somewhat subdued light of the boardroom , plain black skullcaps blending in with the pale glow of the room . |
| 23 | The second class of cases , it is suggested , concerns breaches of contract which , although not breaches of a fundamental term , have particularly serious consequences for the innocent party , as in Harbutt 's Plasticine Ltd v Wayne Tank & Pump Co Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 447 where the installation of defective machinery by the defendants caused a fire which destroyed the plaintiffs ' premises . |
| 24 | Secondly , the events which followed the girls ' departure from institutional care were important . |
| 25 | He used data from a survey which had asked ‘ informed business economists ’ their predictions for six and twelve months ahead for a number of economic series which included the consumers ' price index for the period 1954–69 in the US . |
| 26 | The testing confirmed that the scoring system was accurate and predictive , and to a great extent it mirrored the underwriters ' own subjective analysis calculated on a case-by-case basis . |