Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now it would be helpful if some of the new ministers ' ideas had to do with money . |
| 32 | The way in which the crisis of 1839 – 41 was resolved persuaded him that Britain might welcome an exploration of the two countries ' thoughts on the future of the Near East . |
| 33 | The Chairman of Vietnam 's Council of Ministers , Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , hailed the visit as an " important event " in the normalization of the two countries ' relations . |
| 34 | In particular , the combination of the two companies ' technologies is said to result in wide area network architectures that are highly scalable , simple to administer , and cost-efficient . |
| 35 | Underneath some fairly violent anti-war protest , the interaction of the two students ' lives are played against each other and include some explicit sex . |
| 36 | FIG. 1 Pre-operative magnetic resonance images of the two infants ' brains ( T2-weighted axial images ) . |
| 37 | Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects . |
| 38 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |
| 39 | I do n't think really that we can argue for these in view of the other agencies ' policies . |
| 40 | Andersson measured the attractive power of the 36 males before and after the treatment ; and , to everyone 's delight , the number of nests on the territories of the artificially-lengthened males ' territories was higher ( Figure 8.6 ) . |
| 41 | It was agreed at working-level talks in Panmunjom on Aug. 23 that the fourth round of the ongoing Premiers ' talks between North and South Korea should be held in Pyongyang on Oct. 22-25 . |
| 42 | But to help you even further , from now on we will print the next deadline at the foot of the final Readers ' Ads page each month , so you know exactly where you stand . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | " Already " , complained The Seaman after six months of fighting , " the poor people of this country are beginning to feel the effects of the greedy shipowners ' demands . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | At a time when the market is morose and les affaires difficiles , he had sold 12 drawings on the first day of the second Collectors ' Drawings fair in Paris . |
| 47 | Mr Field , MP for Birkenhead since 1979 , won a majority of the individual members ' votes in last week 's secret ballot . |
| 48 | More important , he delivered nearly a quarter of the Christian Democrats ' votes at national elections as a faithful lieutenant of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti . |
| 49 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 50 | In an effort to boost agricultural exports , the Economy Minister reached a " fiscal pact " with two of the main farmers ' organizations , the Argentine Rural Society ( SRA ) and the Argentine Rural Confederation ( CRA ) , on March 18 . |
| 51 | With the exception of the three islands ' authorities in Scotland , the system of local government in Britain following reorganisation in the 1970s consisted of a two-tier system . |
| 52 | Born in Silvertown , within sound of the old boat-builders ' yards , he disliked silence . |
| 53 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 54 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
| 55 | Bernard had been told this was a confusing mixture reminiscent of the old drapers ' shops — and would never work as the products would attract different customers . |
| 56 | Where the bearings of timbers are inaccessible , it may be necessary to drill deep holes for saturation of the buried beams ' ends by injection . |
| 57 | Don Caskie , chairman of the Independent Schools ' Bursars ' Association , said : ‘ Parents have taken a terrible hammering . |
| 58 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 59 | But feeble personalities explain only part of the Social Democrats ' woes . |
| 60 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |