Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the authors ' expert discussion of the role of the electroweak force in promoting optical activity in biopolymers quite fascinating . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was unkind of me , but I mentioned the Workers ' Education Classes . |
| 3 | But above all , I saw the sabs ' devotion to the cause . |
| 4 | My memory was vaguely stirred when I saw the authors ' name . |
| 5 | I saw the millionaires ' mile in Miami , Florida , where the richest people live marooned on small islands in a bay . |
| 6 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 7 | I said the kids ' crusade was curdling now , everyone had overdosed , but she would n't listen . |
| 8 | I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Secondly , the events which followed the girls ' departure from institutional care were important . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I believe it was a V2 which demolished the Guards ' chapel in Knightsbridge during a service , killing dozens of men . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ASTUDENT accused of cheating in his degree exam wrote complete gobbledegook which matched the examiners ' draft solution to maths problems in the paper , an inquiry was told yesterday . |
| 18 | During his time at the BBC , when the Home Secretary , Leon Brittan , asked the Corporation not to show a documentary in the Real Lives series dealing with extremist politicians in Northern Ireland , it was Rees-Mogg who led the governors ' demand that the management acquiesce . |
| 19 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 20 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 21 | ‘ How 's your mother , Nurse Avery ? ’ asked Sister Robinson , as she approached the nurses ' station where Juliet was studying Bobbie Cole 's test results . |
| 22 | Joyce Barr was again in commanding form as she lifted the ladies ' title bearing Margaret Holligan of Economics . |
| 23 | Initially she welcomed the professionals ' involvement because she believed this might result in help and advice in identifying the reasons for Tom 's deteriorating behaviour . |
| 24 | Negotiating a few cairns , falling into a stream or two , arid avoiding the tempting green sheep-track to the left that would lead you straight into a bog , you followed the pilgrims ' way ever downwards . |
| 25 | The lady , who founded the carers ' help line , er , in the literature that you provided for the programme was suggesting that the government should recognise that there are six million unpaid carers . |
| 26 | The middle room was occupied by Mrs Effie Storer , the Social Editor , who handled the ladies ' page , and the third room contained five small desks , a typewriter on each . |
| 27 | Her mother was so concerned that she rang a parents ' help-line . |
| 28 | The problem of ‘ street arabs ’ and juvenile gangs was very much in the mind of those who formed the Boys ' Brigade , Church Lads , and the Scouts . |
| 29 | In 1951 came the excitement of the MEdaus ' visit ; the next year Hilda became the Society 's first reassurer ; then in preparation for her move to Weston-Super-Mare in 1961 , she took the leaders ' training . |
| 30 | Police today appealed to anyone who saw the killers ' car , a black Vauxhall Carlton , registration XXI 7255 , which was found later at the Shore Road , Greencastle . |