Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [prep] the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time we have to take account of the fact that some of the households ' income will be channelled into saving , and that additional spending on the output of firms will arise from investment . |
| 2 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 3 | The Labour Party conference defeated Communist affiliation at the request of the National Executive and with the approval of most union officials other than some in the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 4 | Had their remit been wider , they might well have discovered that many of the teachers ' anxieties about LMS arose from a lack of faith in school-level decision-making and a feeling of being somehow ‘ outside ’ the decision-making process : a ‘ victim ’ of change rather than an agent of it . |
| 5 | This suggests that all in the kings ' followings , lesser men as well as great nobles , were involved in the action , and played a collective role in underwriting the kings ' commitments . |
| 6 | Two days later the official trade union movement , the Mozambique Workers ' Organization , previously silent on the strikes , came out in support of the workers ' actions , saying : " We consider that most of the strikers ' grievances are justified . " |
| 7 | Comet debris , as its name suggests , is derived from comets , and much of this debris lies in orbits that are far more eccentric than most of the asteroids ' orbits , and which in many cases carry debris far beyond Jupiter . |
| 8 | Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens ' private estates . |
| 9 | The first of these stages was much the most important , for despite the promulgation of the Nazimov Rescript a betting man would not have laid money , at the end of 1857 , on the proposition that peasants were going to acquire both freedom from manorial jurisdiction and some of the landlords ' property . |
| 10 | The shoot was waylaid by litigation , however , after Mr Kluge 's Irish and British gamekeepers were convicted of killing hundreds of protected hawks and owls — and some of the neighbours ' dogs — in an authentic effort to keep the game alive for the pleasure of the guests . |
| 11 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
| 12 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |
| 13 | For one thing , the Club minutes are missing from 1911 to 1920 , along with most of the Artisans ' records and those of the bondholders ' and all the sub-committees ! |
| 14 | But most of the patients ' notes are marked ‘ Not for Resus ’ ! |
| 15 | Quite where this freight profit would arise is a puzzle , because most of the railways ' profitable coal-carrying lines are closed under this option . |
| 16 | It should be noted that most of these are neutral on the optimism/pessimism scale , while some of the characters ' proverbs approach the meaningless . |
| 17 | To test whether each of the participants ' before and after scores were simply a fluke occurrence , as distinct from a genuine increase in alcohol knowledge , a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test was undertaken using SPSS and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z= - 10. 1839 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 . |
| 18 | After half an hour or so , when some of the journalists ' drinking arms were a blur , Jefferson banged on the table . |
| 19 | Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message . |