Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the UK Offshore Operators ' Association said : ‘ Superficially , the reduction to 50pc sounds good , but the tax is tied in with a lot of allowances , including exploration and appraisal , and that has all been abolished , and that is going to have a devastating effect of exploration and appraisal . ’ |
| 2 | After pleasing the crowds for nearly 40 years , Neil Coles is still turning on the style for the PGA European Seniors ' Tour . |
| 3 | He indicated the pupils of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Day Independent School , put the tips of all ten fingers together , and bowed , briefly . |
| 4 | Thinking you were Napoleon was clearly not enough to get you out of the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' Independent Day School . |
| 5 | I thought of the corruption of the North American Indians ' dress and the sullen dejection Robert Louis Stevenson had observed in the ragged groups of defeated Indians which gathered around his train as it moved through the Great Plains . |
| 6 | He headed a four-member Cabinet comprising in addition the former Labour Commissioner Lazalle Homes ( Education ) , a lawyer and former NDP member of the Legislative Council since 1983 David Brandt ( Communications and Works ) , and Charles Kirnon , vice-president of the Montserrat Allied Workers ' Union ( Agriculture , Trade , Lands and Housing ) . |
| 7 | It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies . |
| 8 | But since the emergence of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour 12 years ago , it is more likely to be thought of as a stepping stone to a lucrative professional career . |
| 9 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 10 | He is Chairman of the London Regional Passengers ' Committee and Chairman of the educationist , consumer champion , author and Health and Social Welfare Sector Programme broadcaster . |
| 11 | New dialect acquisition is a more attractive explanation of the London Creole speakers ' behaviour than second language acquisition for several reasons . |
| 12 | Or , in the case of the GMB general workers ' union , backing an alternative federal grouping of ethnic minority organisations . |
| 13 | One reason why Mr Smith is regarded as the front-runner is that he has already secured the support of key trade union leaders , including John Edmonds of the GMB general workers ' union and Gavin Laird of the engineers . |
| 14 | On Jan. 24 Harminder Singh Sandhu , the general secretary of the All-India Sikh Students ' Federation ( AISSF ) and a leading advocate of the establishment of Khalistan , who had been released from prison on Dec. 4 , was assassinated in Amritsar , by , it was widely speculated , factions struggling for supremacy within the Sikh militant movement . |
| 15 | Han Dongfeng , leader of the Beijing Autonomous Workers ' Union ( BAWU ) , was released from prison in late April after being detained without trial for 22 months . |
| 16 | ANY information or stories about the Home Guard in Ormskirk will be welcomed by reader Mr Kevin Reeve , of 36 Benchleys Road , Hemel Hempstead , Herts , HP1 2AQ , whose grandfather , Richard Clayton , MM , a member of the Merseyside Military Medallists ' Association , was one of its number . |
| 17 | But Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club admitted : ‘ It 's a kick in the stomach , I 'm shocked and amazed . |
| 18 | Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’ |
| 19 | It could , therefore , be the case that , in future , the TV audience will gradually catch up with the TV commercial producers ' instincts . |
| 20 | It was quickly followed by a similar resolution from the London General Shipowners ' Society . |
| 21 | The latest tactic in the South African authorities ' battle with black squatters is to arrest the shack dwellers for trespassing and then offer to drop the charges provided they demolish their own homes . |
| 22 | On Saturday , Waverley 's promising minor girl , Rachel Hall , qualified for the Surrey team with 11th place in the County Middle Schools ' cross-country at Reigate Priory . |
| 23 | NIGG BAY 's Graham Gordon , who celebrated his 13th birthday earlier this week , will be the youngest of the 256 competitors in the Mobil Scottish Boys ' Championship , which gets under way at West Kilbride on Monday week , writes Martin Dempster . |
| 24 | After it it seen this week at the Tron Theatre , Glasgow , the company will be taking Antigone to the Mercat Theatre in Drumchapel and to the Gorbals Unemployed Workers ' Centre , where Reekie expects that the ‘ strong , accessible storyline ’ of the play will appeal to an audience who respond to exactly such elements when they are presented in the form of TV soaps . |
| 25 | ‘ Brian has been suffering from a loss of confidence , ’ said Roxburgh of the player who was relegated to the Manchester United substitutes ' bench on Saturday . |
| 26 | At the Luxembourg foreign ministers ' meeting in January 1966 France agreed to rejoin Community bodies . |
| 27 | But they were not looking at one point , as the worshippers did at the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' School ( Day Independent ) : they were moving up and down , backwards and forwards , bumping into each other and generally carrying on like people at Victoria Station during the rush hour . |
| 28 | Fees for 1985–86 set out below — These may be paid in one lump sum at the September Qualified Teachers ' Day if more convenient . |
| 29 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 30 | The first draft also met with opposition at an EC Foreign Ministers ' meeting on June 17 when the United Kingdom , supported by Denmark and Portugal , called for the removal of a phrase in the preamble describing the treaty as " a new stage in the gradual process leading to a union with a federal goal " . |