Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrick reached that rank after twenty years ' service which included considerable experience in the intermediate rank of supervisor of excise at Forfar before being advanced to his collectorship . |
| 2 | They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism . |
| 3 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 4 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 5 | How do smaller companies meet their capital raising requirements , particularly in emergence from recession ; particularly in the face of venture capitalists , many of whom have become more renowned for risk averse than risk taking strategies ; particularly in the face of clearing banks ' policy which does not exactly involve them rushing to throw loan finance about as they emerge from one of the most traumatic periods in their history ; and particularly in the face of the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) with no successor currently in sight ? |
| 6 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 7 | Investment in the 46% of general practitioners ' premises which the Tomlinson report identified as substandard will be needed . |
| 8 | His poetic voice is unmistakable , and yet it was composed from a number of other poets ' voices which he adapted or borrowed . |
| 9 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 10 | These protests were added to a series of crippling miners ' strikes which had begun in early March . |
| 11 | On the licensing of overseas editions : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated in line with standard publishers ' rates which will be payable on the Publisher 's net receipts , but the Publisher shall be entitled to deduct from its net receipts any direct or first costs |
| 12 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 13 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 14 | In particular , the partitioning requirements for governing bodies ' accommodation which will be provided on a cellular basis need to be determined now . |