Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer this question we have constructed figures for the advanced capitalist countries ' rate of profit ( a weighted average of the best estimates available for the seven biggest capitalist countries ) . |
| 2 | Thorpeness and Aldeburgh are 25 minutes to the north ; Rushmere and Waldringfield are no more than 15 minutes away , but closer still is Woodbridge , venue for the 1992 Amateur Seniors ' Open Championship . |
| 3 | BNFL took a further step along the road of its partnership with schools when about 100 employees from throughout the company converged on Risley for the second annual governors ' seminar . |
| 4 | The figures in Table 2.4 demonstrate the vital importance of overtime and other payments for the male manual workers ' earnings ( over 25 per cent ) and their limited significance for non-manual workers . |
| 5 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 6 | We have therefore included in the cost of your holiday insurance protection : after a 12-hour delay at the start of your holiday , you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums — or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12- hours ' delay : for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £100 per person in total . |
| 7 | The data shown in the tables have been weighted to allow for the 50 Tory marginals ' over-representation in the total sample . |
| 8 | Famed for its hospitality and wildlife , New Zealand is also renowned among campers for the wonderful national parks ' accommodation system — you have the freedom to camp in the middle of nowhere , or you can pay a small sum and use their lodges . |
| 9 | I mean where are they going , where are they going to get the extra money from er to pay for the old aged pensioners ' er eight pound rise ? |
| 10 | In Japan during the 1920s expanding employers ' associations also became active in opposing government labour policy . |
| 11 | The NMA leadership and many rank-and-file members became increasingly disenchanted with MFGB strategy during the 1920 national miners ' strike and the 1921 lockout , and less than a third of Nottinghamshire miners bothered to vote in a 1921 ballot on whether to accept the offered settlement or continue the dispute ( Griffin , 1962 , p.91 , p.102 ) . |
| 12 | Some forms of the second genus were apparently more difficult for the trade union movement to identify , one of these being that created in 1872 by William Paterson Lind , Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London , as the London Seamen 's Mutual Protection Society , later known as the Amalgamate British Seamen 's Protection Society . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And in France , Irigarayan psychoanalysts attained a degree of visibility which led them to appear , for a short period and to some people , as the whole French women 's liberation movement ( Turkle 1979 , Moi 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 16 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 17 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 18 | An existing external door was re-used as the main entrance and the new straight-flight stair , giving access to the first-floor living-rooms , was located on the site off the former upper storeys ' access ladder . |
| 19 | Although hailed by the leaders of the Catholic revival as their patron , ‘ the good Earl John ’ ( as he was known by them ) retained something of the recusant Catholic families ' suspicion of ‘ enthusiasm ’ , religious fervour , and triumphalism . |
| 20 | From 1899 , the intention of the clergy to assume and maintain absolute control of their schools led a number of them to refuse to appoint members of the Irish National Teachers ' Organization so as to avoid trade union interference . |
| 21 | It plays a key role in keeping city streets on the move and is even the object of the best modern designers ' desire . |
| 22 | It is of course difficult to measure such a discrepancy objectively , but it does seem that , for instance , some of the so-called' irreversible binomials ' such as fish and chips are less opaque than , say , blackbird , even though both contain only full semantic indicators . |
| 23 | Some biographers have suggested that the reason was that the presence of Mrs Taylor , presiding over one of the great English bishops ' palaces , would have been an embarrassing reminder of the frailty of her natural father , the Royal Martyr . |
| 24 | An ASEAN statement issued on July 23 ( the day before the start of the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Indonesia — see p. 37613 ) stated that the representation of Cambodia at the UN was " a delicate political question " and that attempts to change the seating in the absence of an acceptable Supreme National Council would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution . |
| 25 | In order to gain a deeper insight into the emergence of socialist realism in interwar France , it is clearly necessary to examine the significance of the 1934 Soviet Writers ' Congress during which the new literary ideology was officially consecrated . |
| 26 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 27 | Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ . |
| 28 | Ned Cathery , in his first report as general secretary of the new National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland gave the date of its formation as 26 November 1894 at a gathering of the union 's most loyal supporters at the Wade Arms in Poplar . |
| 29 | The opposition responded with calls for the conference to be chaired by the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the Roman Catholic Bishops ' Conference and archbishop of Kisangani , in place of Isaac Kalonji Mutambaye , regarded as discredited by his loyalty to Mobutu . |
| 30 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |