Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 2 | An hour or so later , Roger honoured his cafe-culture principles and I compromised mine by patronising the plastic vulgarity of the deserted skiers ' day lodge . |
| 3 | His rearrest was upon the recommendation of an independent doctors ' commission . |
| 4 | ONLY through concrete policy changes will the quality of human life for women in Sudan be changed , Fatima Ibrahim , President of the Sudanese Women 's Union , told AI 's annual conference on Women and Human Rights . |
| 5 | The Delegation was composed of seven women : Margarita Papandreou ( Women for Mutual Security , and Global Co-ordinator of the Delegation ) ; myself — Nawal El Saadawi ( writer , medical doctor and President of the Arab Women 's Solidarity Association ) ; Fatheya Seoudi ( Women 's Centre , Jordan ) ; Joan Drake ( Institute of Policy Studies in Washington and Madrea , Latin America ) ; Maude Barlow ( Voice of Women — Canada , Women World Parliamentarians for Peace ) ; Flora Abrachmanova ( World Democratic Federation of Women ) and Kay Kamp ( Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom ) . |
| 6 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 7 | The government had reportedly also accepted a three-point plan presented by the mediator at the talks , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Zacapa and president of the Guatemalan Bishops ' Conference , which called for a commission to document , but not punish , perpetrators of past atrocities and for the government to guarantee the rights of captured rebels and of those who had disarmed . |
| 8 | The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers . |
| 9 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 10 | The two were speaking as Mrs Mary Whitehouse , president of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , called for a clamp-down on screen violence . |
| 11 | In 1984 he became President of the British Bankers ' Association . |
| 12 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |
| 13 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 14 | Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 . |
| 15 | The authorities said that the shooting began with an attack on military and administrative buildings in the town centre by 1,500 fighters of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 16 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 17 | Where the bearings of timbers are inaccessible , it may be necessary to drill deep holes for saturation of the buried beams ' ends by injection . |
| 18 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |
| 19 | The remaining five seats , allocated for election by minority communities such as Chinese , Europeans and other Pacific islanders , were all filled by candidates of the General Voters ' Party ( until 1990 the General Electors ' Association ) . |
| 20 | That was a time when a foreign passport offered little defence against arbitrary injustice from the authorities , and the very mention of the Avant-garde artists ' names incurred the risk of repression . |
| 21 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 22 | The next election will be lost or won not as the result of a few weeks ' electioneering , of media events , of soundbites , but as a result of four years of radical but sensible campaigning in our towns and villages . |
| 23 | As a result of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 , and later Acts , the capacity of a married woman to own property , to make contracts , and to incur liability for torts was different from that of a man . |
| 24 | I was encouraged in this by the good result of the experimental members ' evening in the 1990-1 programme , when half a dozen members gave excellent short talks . |
| 25 | One direct result of the nuclear authorities ' assumptions on the remote possibility of catastrophic accidents , however , was that its plans for dealing with an emergency were consequently limited . |
| 26 | But a recent study of the Capetian kings ' household has traced a growing reliance on knights of lowly birth and clerks whose claim to prominence sprang solely from their usefulness . |
| 27 | In a bold demonstration of the federal authorities ' resolve to thwart any concrete Slovene actions which might lead to secession , late on Oct. 4 JNA military police occupied the Slovene territorial defence force headquarters in Ljubljana ( Slovenia 's capital ) . |
| 28 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation . |
| 29 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 30 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |