Example sentences of "[noun] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engineering works to extend and reinforce the system absorbed the bulk of the Area Boards ' capital budgets , but could now be more efficiently planned . |
| 2 | Ko Nu was elected President of the University Students ' Union ; the students looked up to him as their mentor . |
| 3 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 4 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 5 | In the offices of the Sex Pistols ' company , Glitterbest , Branson became known as ‘ Mr Pickles ’ . |
| 6 | In the offices of the Stock Growers ' Association in Rapid City , South Dakota , Jack McCulloh , secretary , and Ed Anderson , local manager of the NorWest Bank , agree that the story is sadly typical . |
| 7 | Both centres were able to identify specific areas for action as a result of the Subject Assessors ' visits and comments . |
| 8 | Up to 1,500 Indians may have died over the last two years as a result of the gold miners ' presence on their land . |
| 9 | TRAINED observers in the press gallery have been rather surprised that the behaviour of MPs has changed so little as a result of the television cameras ' arrival . |
| 10 | The Davy lamp was the direct result of the mine owners ' concern to recover coal , not from deeper shafts but from existing workings that were inaccessible because of a process known as ‘ creep ’ . |
| 11 | regular rhythm of the train wheels ' feet — |
| 12 | The accounts provided in this chapter of the development officers ' work will have shown already the breadth of activities in which they were involved : assessing , visiting and supporting clients and their families ; recruiting , training and supervising support workers ; negotiating with other service-providers . |
| 13 | The final chapter of the vase makers ' story is shrouded in mystery . |
| 14 | The High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991 sets out the parameters of the County Courts ' jurisdiction . |
| 15 | Charles Myers , chairman of the electricity consumers ' committee for Merseyside and North Wales , dismissed the 1pc tariff cut as insufficient to help the ordinary customer . |
| 16 | Charles Myers , chairman of the electricity consumers ' committee for Merseyside and North Wales , dismissed the 1pc tariff cut as insufficient to help the ordinary customer . |
| 17 | In 1981 he was chairman of the Computer Retailers ' Association , and he stood as a local government candidate for Rother Valley in the 1987 General Election . |
| 18 | John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers ' Association , has warned that any remand prisoner suffering a condition that requires constant nursing care , or carrying the HIV virus , would not be sent to the Wolds because of the possible cost . |
| 19 | After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 . |
| 20 | The chairman of the Ivory Manufacturers ' Association in Zimbabwe , however , advised against withdrawal from CITES ; this could affect tourism and aid , he said , while ivory trade markets would remain blocked . |
| 21 | World War I , which the BSP opposed , and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia reinforced his commitment to militant activity as part of the shop stewards ' movement in the engineering trades . |
| 22 | The workshop was free for visitors , part of the festival organisers ' aim of encouraging more people to take an interest in dance . |
| 23 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 24 | The majority of the pension funds ' assets are company securities , both UK and overseas , and especially ordinary shares . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb will be guest of Teesside branch of the Football Supporters ' Association at the Marquis Hotel , Middlesbrough , on Thursday night . |
| 26 | It was made clear to us that Operation ‘ Brisket ’ for the road haulage dispute , ‘ Bittern ’ for the rapidly growing ambulance drivers ' dispute , and ‘ Nimrod ’ in the case of the water workers ' action , were all long on detailed planning , but short on how much could actually be done in a major dispute . |
| 27 | The Rules of the Fire Offices ' Committee and the Fire Offices ' Committee of Ireland for the Construction of Buildings are those which have been adopted by the Insurance companies , members of the Committee , for the classification of buildings and are based on two grades of construction . |
| 28 | Yet a surprisingly large proportion of market research is still based on the spending patterns of the baby boomers ' parents , and so implicitly assumes that they are all but identical . |
| 29 | There is an obvious sense , therefore , in which the trustee company is acting as guardian of the unit holders ' interests . |
| 30 | We had brought in respected experts from outside Whitehall like Mark Weinberg , Professor Alan Peacock , and Marshall Field of the Life Offices ' Association to act as assessors . |