Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 2 | I found the authors ' expert discussion of the role of the electroweak force in promoting optical activity in biopolymers quite fascinating . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was unkind of me , but I mentioned the Workers ' Education Classes . |
| 4 | I 'm Raymond , and I attend the Friends ' Meeting here . |
| 5 | The first time I visit the Ladies ' Pond , I exclaim to Kelly , ‘ It 's like a Fellini film , ’ to which she says in a lazy Scottish brogue , ‘ Perhaps … |
| 6 | I remember a tenants ' association was set up and they demanded that we meet them . |
| 7 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 8 | But above all , I saw the sabs ' devotion to the cause . |
| 9 | My memory was vaguely stirred when I saw the authors ' name . |
| 10 | I saw the millionaires ' mile in Miami , Florida , where the richest people live marooned on small islands in a bay . |
| 11 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 12 | Erm and I think the tenants ' group came to us and , and asked us if we would set up an advice session for tenants moving out , which could be situated in the flats , and could be run on a regular basis . |
| 13 | I said the kids ' crusade was curdling now , everyone had overdosed , but she would n't listen . |
| 14 | I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months . |
| 15 | Although she no longer dominated the proceedings , Tamar was certain that it was the older woman 's presence which dampened the workers ' enthusiasm and made the meal and the dancing which followed , restrained and formal . |
| 16 | In this connection it is worth bearing in mind that a hospital birth will be recorded in the registration district in which the hospital stands and not in the district which contains the parents ' home . |
| 17 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |
| 18 | The highest point in this reluctance to intervene with governmental activities was reached in the mid-1950s when the House of Lords interpreted a statutory provision , which limited the courts ' jurisdiction to review a compulsory purchase order on land , so broadly that even fraud by public servants was held not to entitle the owner to bring an action . |
| 19 | There is some uncertainty about the extent to which aligning the deuterons ' spin could improve the D-D reaction rate — it could be between 1–5 to 2–5 times higher with polarised deuterons . |
| 20 | Maintenance of health in the long term depends on the management protocols which control the animals ' welfare and staff access . |
| 21 | Secondly , the events which followed the girls ' departure from institutional care were important . |
| 22 | He used data from a survey which had asked ‘ informed business economists ’ their predictions for six and twelve months ahead for a number of economic series which included the consumers ' price index for the period 1954–69 in the US . |
| 23 | Despite this , the vast red sandstone bulk of the cathedral towers above the severely damaged and consequently modern city , the impression it creates little affected by the trolley bus wires which cross the tourists ' line of vision . |
| 24 | In many cases complex financial engineering ( structuring ) is needed during primary issuance to provide a package which satisfies the borrowers ' funding needs . |
| 25 | Pc Keith Black went into the toilet with Mr. Smith and they found the figure to be Mr. Thurgood , wearing a T-shirt which fitted the soldiers ' description . |
| 26 | Adams had already given notice of intent overnight with his occasional left-arm spin , when Hansie Cronje ( imprudently cutting at his fourth ball ) offered a first Test wicket , and , suitably encouraged , the Jamaican picked up three more in an impressive 21-over spell of slight and turn which restricted the visitors ' lead to 83 . |
| 27 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 28 | The first entry drawn after the closing date which matches the judges ' decision will win . |
| 29 | I believe it was a V2 which demolished the Guards ' chapel in Knightsbridge during a service , killing dozens of men . |
| 30 | Yuill and Dodds , which ran the miners ' gauntlet to deliver supplies to British Steel during the 1985 strike , was convicted at Linlithgow Sheriff Court in October on 36 charges of allowing drivers to exceed permitted hours and to take insufficient breaks . |