Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These included the Foreign Office ( allegedly too pro-EEC and generally too prone to make diplomatic concessions at the cost of British interests ) , the Civil Service Department ( too accommodating during the civil servants ' pay strike in 1981 ) , the Department of Employment ( allegedly too ‘ soft ’ under Mr Prior ) , and Education ( allegedly too sympathetic to the education lobbies ) . |
| 32 | A limited poisoning campaign is being used against rats , especially during the Hawaiian petrels ' breeding season , when the birds are particularly vulnerable . |
| 33 | He was suspended for five matches by UEFA after his verbal attack on Swedish referee Rune Larrson during the European Cup-Winners ' Cup game against Spartak Moscow last October — four games of which will be carried over to the next Liverpool campaign in Europe following their elimination last October by Spartak Moscow . |
| 34 | Bevin , impressed by Soviet intransigence during the foreign ministers ' conference at the end of 1947 , decided that the time had come for a more overt display of Western unity . |
| 35 | The instructions that John Thorseby , Archbishop of York , issued for the clergy in 1357 and which were on his instructions expounded by the Benedictine monk , John Gaytrick , in a vernacular version known as the Lay Folks ' Catechism , give insight into the framework of thought within which life was assimilated to , and ordered by , Christian belief — the groundwork of assumptions that mystical writers in the vernacular could take for granted . |
| 36 | One solution was to provide an organization for the 13–17 age-group , such as the Working Boys ' Brigades formed in the 1860s , and the Glasgow Foundry Boys ' Religious Society . |
| 37 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
| 38 | AS THE political parties ' election campaigns grind into their final week , many peoples ' thoughts are turning to Easter holidays and plans to get away from it all-assuming they can still afford it , that is . |
| 39 | Betty was previously on the Executive Committee for 13 years as the Qualified Teachers ' Representative . |
| 40 | A second stage emerges when the achievement of representative government , universal and equal suffrage , and free elections seems to diminish the importance of political action outside the formal institutional sphere , although in periods of crisis social movements , such as the unemployed workers ' movements or the fascist movements in some European countries , may develop . |
| 41 | In some cases , such as the crab Melia and the sand wasps , tool use is innate , while in others , such as the green herons ' bait fishing , it is largely learned . |
| 42 | Recent developments indicate more movement towards site-based management as the National Governors ' Association , the National Education Association and the National Association of Secondary School Principals are calling for greater levels of financial devolution to bring about educational improvement . |
| 43 | They had not been negotiated by any representative body of farmers , such as the National Farmers ' Union . |
| 44 | The needs of children , especially those without parents , concerned the hearts and minds of Christian people , and one such person was Dr. Stephenson , who founded a home for such children , in 1876 , and that organisation became known as the National Childrens ' Homes . |
| 45 | Levick 's brainchild began life as the Public Schools ' Exploring Society . |
| 46 | THE result of the ballot regarding possible strike action by First Division players will be known today but a solution to the dispute between the Professional Footballers ' Association and the Premier League over payments for televised matches is expected to be announced shortly . |
| 47 | Yet since the late 1950s extensive progress on the negotiation of general clauses on working conditions has taken place between the central employers ' organisations and large trade union confederations , along with government participation , on an economy-wide basis . |
| 48 | One of the rare similarities between Highland and Lowland customs was the resemblance between the northern clans ' loyalty to a chieftain who in return owed his family and retainers an equal commitment , and the mutually supportive ‘ surnames ’ of Border groups — usually known on the Northumbrian side of the Border , especially in Tynedale , as ‘ graynes ’ . |
| 49 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 50 | There was indeed a wild ambition about the Round Tablers ' schemes and dreams which belied the unvarying reasonableness of their prose . |
| 51 | Meanwhile doubts about the private banks ' ability to cope caused mounting worries . |
| 52 | Western leftists wax indignant about the eastern Europeans ' refusal to differentiate between a democratic socialism and Stalinism , when they themselves never drew a clear line . |
| 53 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 54 | She then asked Margaret Charlwood to talk about the Potential Teachers ' Day on 9th July . |
| 55 | Opposition also began to mount among concerned citizens of the area , an opposition which manifested itself both individually and through the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association , formed two years previously , which had not involved itself in any controversy over previous planning applications for industrial projects in the area . |
| 56 | Moult had attended the School between 1928 and 1934 , and had maintained his connection thereafter through the Old Stopfordians ' Association . |
| 57 | The superb shots were chosen from a sea of entries which flooded into our offices after the Tall Ships ' visit this summer . |
| 58 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 59 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 60 | Central 's fraud officers were called in by Falkirk after an independent auditors ' report on the club 's finances . |