Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive . |
| 2 | The aim is not to increase the community nurses ' workload but rather to decrease time spent chasing the social work team . |
| 3 | To apply that principle here : suppose the corporation proposed to reduce the number of taxicabs from 300 to 200 , it would be their duty to hear the taxicab owners ' association : because their members would be greatly affected . |
| 4 | This was not the way in which the Iranians came to perceive the Gulf states ' role . |
| 5 | Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 . |
| 6 | The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 . |
| 7 | He intends to raise the top rate of tax from 31% to 36% and wants to apply a 10% millionaires ' surtax , leading to a top rate of approximately 40% . |
| 8 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
| 9 | The EC responded to some of these concerns by offering to increase the proportion of grants to loans ( in order to ease the ACP countries ' debt commitments ) , to allocate funds to short-term structural adjustment rather than to long-term aid projects ( to help ACP countries overcome acute balance-of-payments and other problems ) , and to relax the regulations on the rules of origin for manufactured products ( with the aim of encouraging industrialization in ACP countries ) . |
| 10 | It can be seen straight away that the Faculty has an enormous task merely trying to help members keep up-to-date with all these changes , to help them interpret some of the more obscure elements and , wherever possible , to pool their combined knowledge to match the tax authorities ' ability to pool their knowledge of the activities of taxpayers and their advisers . |
| 11 | Wembley yesterday landed a second successive European final when the stadium was chosen to host the Cup Winners ' Cup climax on 12 May . |
| 12 | The Local Council , in nineteen hundred and four , had the courtesy to call a rate payers ' meeting to discuss the proposed acquisition of the estate and , with the approval of the meeting , proceeded with their purchase . |
| 13 | Rick 's method of dealing with these conflicting images was to hold an evening parents ' workshop in which he outlined the rationale and aims of the new mathematics curriculum for the intake year . |
| 14 | On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their No 1 decision-maker . |
| 15 | On this evidence , Andrew will have to drown in incompetence while Barnes proves he can walk on water to change the England selectors ' opinion that the Wasps stand-off must remain their number one decision maker . |
| 16 | Certainly , it was the effects of such rising social tensions and widespread industrial conflict which motivated the giant Siemens company in the electrical engineering industry to join the metalworking employers ' association ( Homburg , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | It was made famous by the then Labour education chairman who said , and I quote , I am a spendthrift , I love to spend the rate payers ' money . |
| 18 | In this instance the directors are presumably the same as the shareholders , and the intention was , undoubtedly , to effect the motor vehicles ' transfer and payment of the dividend on exactly the same date to avoid a loan account debit and a s 419 assessment . |
| 19 | When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers . |
| 20 | This last sentence may appear to safeguard the Member States ' authority , at least in the field of applying the foreign policy of the Union . |
| 21 | She would have something to tell the Highbury Ladies ' Circle at any rate . |
| 22 | These claims were rejected and the rule that a solicitor be involved was seen as protecting the client who might otherwise be advised to settle too early or for too little to maximize the claims assessors ' cash flow ( Winn , 1968 ) . |