Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 2 | Its site has not altered and the chancel arch ( the division between the parishioners ' area [ the nave ] and the rector 's area [ the chancel ] ) has remained in the same position for 1000 years or more , notwithstanding additions , alterations , and demolitions . |
| 3 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 4 | Phonogram are offering a reward of sorts for info about the shirts ' whereabouts and anyone who 's got something to say should give the boys in blue at Belgrade Road station a call on 021 626 4010 . |
| 5 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 6 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 7 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 8 | He was chosen to design a new building for the Congregationalists ' Union Chapel in Islington . |
| 9 | In his ministerial programme submitted to parliament for the deputies ' vote of confidence on December 30 , Mr Badran said his government will study the legal and economic effects of martial law after taking steps to return suspended passports , restore the elected boards to the three Arabic dailies and abolish a previous martial law order to dissolve the Jordanian Writers Association . |
| 10 | It is a remarkable turnaround for the ex-Blues ' star , who never dreamed he would be offered such a lucrative post , having suffered so much frustration in the domestic game . |
| 11 | And , while the general right of beneficiaries to inspect trust documents was recognised in In re Londonderry 's Settlement [ 1965 ] Ch. 918 as being a proprietary right , that case does not provide support for the plaintiffs ' contention in the instant appeal . |
| 12 | Tug knew that that last bit about the terrorists ' demands was a lie . |
| 13 | Desert Orchid 's trainer can fill the gaps between the great horse 's latest achievements by dreaming of his first Classic success with Dead Certain , who became clear favourite for the fillies ' Classic with a courageous victory in yesterday 's Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket . |
| 14 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 15 | One actor I became friendly with , Terry , had done only agit-prop before , touring the country in a van with a company called Vanguard in a music-hall pastiche about the miners ' strike of 1972 called Dig ! |
| 16 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 17 | In any event , Ermold assumed that the parents would relish the description of their son , and be amused by the contrast between the adults ' formality and the child 's spontaneity ( though such licence may have been permitted only to under-sevens ) . |
| 18 | However , the mayoral offer of money for the dolphins ' release was not forthcoming , and much of the goodwill between fishermen , villagers and conservationists evaporated . |
| 19 | Major , who had a string of previous convictions , stood trial for the bookies ' robbery . |
| 20 | They have brain and heart and imagination and they 're off the life support after the Muses ' separation operation . |
| 21 | The elimination of Mr Santos , who had the support of President Jose Sarney has reduced the November 14 poll to a contest between the Workers ' Party candidate , Mr Luis Inacio da Silva , and Mr Leonel Brizola of the Democratic Labour Party for a place in the second round . |
| 22 | The agreements , particularly that on the reunion of dispersed families , had not been expected by political commentators , but were seen as an important contribution towards providing some fresh momentum for the Premiers ' talks which , after the dramatic progress of December 1991 , had failed to make much progress in succeeding months . |
| 23 | Arthur had eaten large helpings of scampi and steak-and-kidney pudding , refrained from the damson pie as a gesture , and taken his mind off the others ' plates by saying that they would do the film if he and Fred were allowed to write it , direct it , find the props , and put together the sound track . |
| 24 | That capital market imperfections might create discrepancies between share price and underlying value is a significant point , however , because it indicates a possible divergence between the shareholders ' interests and the general interest in economic efficiency in the long term . |
| 25 | The registry was to act as an agent for the parties ' endorsement of bills , as well as for the delivery of the paper based bill of lading with which the goods would be claimed from the carrier . |
| 26 | Welsh Tennis review WELSH junior international Claire Bullen Evans of Prestatyn launched her bid for the womens ' singles crown at the North Wales Open Tennis Championship in Prestatyn with a no-nonsense performance . |
| 27 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |
| 28 | Aficionados of art and antiques will make a bee-line for the towns ' museums and art galleries . |
| 29 | Sam Beattie swung her stern to starboard as she hit , leaving clear the Old Entrance for the MLs ' landing . |
| 30 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |