Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] the [noun] ' [noun] " 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 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 6 | Full knowledge of all the communities ' characteristics |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although there were profits and national prestige to be made out of all the Wardens ' privileges and untold opportunities for corruption , it was often difficult to find anyone to shoulder this particular responsibility . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) The names of all the directors of a recognised body shall be stated either on the body 's stationery or in a list of the names of all the directors maintained at the body 's registered office provided that in the latter case the body 's stationery must state that such a list of all the directors ' names is open to inspection at the body 's registered office and must state the address of that office . |
| 10 | Of all the ewes ' milk cheeses , Roquefort is surely the best known . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Serious Fraud Office , however , wanted more , and requested copies of all the liquidators ' transcripts of the earlier interviews with the 16 . |
| 14 | ( c ) Where the regulations confer a discretion on directors with regard to the acceptance of transfers , this discretion , like all the directors ' powers , is a fiduciary one to be exercised bona fide in what they consider — not what the court considers — to be in the interest of the company , and not for any collateral purpose . |
| 15 | He had gone through all the Smiths ' names by the time he reached the yard , and it was there that Danny Waggett caught hold of him . |
| 16 | Take one question at a time and go through all the trainees ' answers to it . |
| 17 | The truth is that , as the Co-operative Manufacturing Society was constituted , it was not — for all the Pioneers ' intentions to the contrary — a genuine co-operative . |
| 18 | To compensate them for their lack of space , Chavez had paid for all the prisoners ' food and provided new plumbing and electricity . |
| 19 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 20 | Their teacher , Sue Hewgill , of the Dance Studio , at Polam Hall School , said she was delighted with all the girls ' results . |
| 21 | Their teacher , Sue Hewgill , of the Dance-in Studio at Polam Hall School , said she is delighted with all the girls ' results . |
| 22 | 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 . " |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
| 27 | In 1981 the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Call-slip analysis and book condition survey . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
| 30 | in particular the gents ' side . |