Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's not Street or the Four Seasons ' Centre either . |
| 2 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 3 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 4 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 5 | There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward . |
| 6 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 7 | Is it possible that the Drunken Poets ' scene was in the original version of the show ? |
| 8 | As for the comment that umpires should start enforcing this law , I assure Mr. Byran that the first-class umpires ' panel , the best in the world , are fully aware of the law , very observant , and most certainly fearless in its application . |
| 9 | If you are already engaged in running a small business , you will probably hardly need reminding that the small companies ' rate of corporation tax is 25 per cent ( instead of the 33 per cent standard rate for larger concerns ) . |
| 10 | Then came the uncomfortable news that the All Blacks ' opposition in Treviso would involve some South African players . |
| 11 | Lexandro had expected that the Imperial Fists ' home-base would be on a world . |
| 12 | Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has issued a certification stating that the two countries ' trade in such items diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 13 | However , lined up alongside such vintage stuff as seen on Pages 48 and 49 , we think you 'll agree that the following rogues ' gallery is a pretty ropey showing . |
| 14 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 15 | The trial judge , Millett J. , reached the conclusion that the six months ' notice served by the London Residuary Body was a good notice . |
| 16 | He argues — irrefutably , I believe , despite his oversimplification of Latin theology — that the early fathers ' understanding of God 's war with the Devil was obscured by rejigging the drama of what I have called the Great Battle into a legalistic rational framework . |
| 17 | They felt that there were some fundamental problems within the education system on the islands , problems that the official teachers ' union were failing to redress . |
| 18 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
| 19 | The Minister will find it difficult to convince me that the new employers ' priority will be to match the existing and future pension rights of STG employees . |
| 20 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 21 | An East German parliamentary committee yesterday dismissed a draft travel law , saying that the 30 days ' travel to be granted a year in no way met people 's expectations . |
| 22 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 23 | This comparison of procedures reveals that the CMI Rules ' receipt message plays the role of both a paper based dock or mate 's receipt and of a preliminary bill of lading . |
| 24 | The defective article might still be in the manufacturer 's possession three years after the date of manufacture , and he might sell it later , but no one would have the hardihood to suggest that the three years ' limitation had already cut off all right of action before he had sold it . |
| 25 | It could be argued that the long-running teachers ' dispute of 1984 — 87 has eroded and undermined this trust . |
| 26 | The quota-equivalent of the tariff is derived by substituting ( 22 ) into ( 17 ) , which , after rearranging gives the following expression : where Since , following the imposition of the quota , the home firms act in a Cournot manner ( i.e. they know that there will be no response from their foreign competitors ) and that the foreign firms ' conjecture is undefined where the quota is binding . |
| 27 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 28 | These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers ' scapegoat , the rapacious landlords . |
| 29 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 30 | Cigarettes are a type of goods ordinarily bought for private use or consumption and it has been held ( for the purpose of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ) that a private members ' club is not a business , John v. Matthews ( 1910 D.C. ) , see paragraph 16 — 04 below . |