Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervous though we were , it did turn out to be reasonably straightforward — but this was after all the beginners ' course and the ingredients had been prepared ; even the chives had been chopped . |
| 2 | After 1910 the workers ' movement regathered momentum , and from 1912 the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes , ever more political in motivation and ever more directly under Bolshevik leadership , culminating in a general strike in St Petersburg on the very eve of the war . |
| 3 | Many more women seem to have entered the industry as researchers , producers and directors than in the technical grades of lighting , camera or sound , despite all the schools ' career information days and the campaigns to train women in non-traditional skills . |
| 4 | The second was the Bishop of Oxford , Tommy Strong ; the bishop with the most sensitive taste and rare learning and musical apprehension of all the bishops ' bench . |
| 5 | Of all the ewes ' milk cheeses , Roquefort is surely the best known . |
| 6 | The restorers ' single most valuable resource came in the form of life-size archive photographs of all the Gibbons ' carving at Hampton Court , and David Esterly is the first to admit his debt to the unnamed civil servant who in 1939 seeing war clouds gather , prudently took it upon himself to record the work for future generations . |
| 7 | Chèvre is the best known of all the goats ' milk cheeses , possibly because the name is actually a generic term for all goats ' milk cheese . |
| 8 | To compensate them for their lack of space , Chavez had paid for all the prisoners ' food and provided new plumbing and electricity . |
| 9 | Upon registration of a contract by LCH : " such contract shall be replaced by novation … novation occurs when , with all the parties ' consent a new contract is substituted for one that has already been made … by two open contracts , one between the seller and the Clearing House as buyer , as principals to such contract , and one between the buyer and the Clearing House as seller , as principals to such contract . " |
| 10 | The system posed some obstacles to the monarch 's freedom of appointment , but it reflected above all the nobles ' concern to benefit from rather than to limit the power of the State . |
| 11 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |
| 12 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |
| 13 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
| 14 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 15 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
| 16 | in particular the gents ' side . |
| 17 | They should cover in particular the pupils ' response to literature , and their competence in using information and reference materials , and should meet the general criteria described above . |
| 18 | In 1854 a contractors ' consortium , in which the Belgian contractors Parent & Schaecken joined Thomas Brassey [ q.v. ] and Buddicom , undertook to build the Bellegarde tunnel , two-and-a-half-miles long , for the Lyon–Geneva railway , and in 1860 Buddicom and Brassey undertook the conversion of the Rouen to Dieppe railway from single to double track . |
| 19 | Its early locomotives were unreliable , and in 1827 the owners ' committee authorized Hackworth to build a new one to his own design . |
| 20 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 21 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 22 | He was the leading European in both the Players ' Championship and at New Orleans — and even he admits he has not felt so confident since he approached the St Andrews Open of 1990 , which he won . |
| 23 | Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation . |