Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the louvred cowls has survived , glazing had to be added internally in order to present wind-blown rain from entering the vents , and efforts were made to waterproof the sloping brick surfaces of the roundels ' conical roofs by coating them with bitumen . |
| 2 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 3 | Before he qualifies David hopes to be sent on an advocacy course so he can handle matrimonial and crime cases in the Magistrates ' and County Court . |
| 4 | Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids ' top ten of moral panics . |
| 5 | It is a true employee newspaper , mixing weighty news like enhanced performance despite recession and acquisitions in Russian telecommunications , with the top sales and service people living it up in Hawaii and a picture story on the golfing achievements of the directors ' butler . |
| 6 | However , the breach of contract by the sellers consisted not of feeding mouldy pig nuts to the buyers ' pigs , but of supplying an unventilated hopper . |
| 7 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 8 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 9 | Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I . |
| 10 | During one of Seb 's evening drinking sessions at the navvies ' camp he told Jacob that Anna was to marry someone else . |
| 11 | The Act provides a much higher level of protection for investors , including improved monitoring , and compensation arrangements through the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , since August 1988 . |
| 12 | Thousands of pounds have been raised over the past few months by the local community and by Wirral council colleagues of the boys ' father Bob , who works in the highways and building services department . |
| 13 | Those who studied the parties ' platforms carefully would have had to relate the Labour Party 's generally stronger commitment to universal social security policies to the Conservatives ' specific pledge . |
| 14 | He began attending evening classes in the Mechanics ' Institute and ‘ thereby developed the gifts of teaching and speaking , and habits of thought and reading , with so much success as to mark him out as one called of God ’ . |
| 15 | They found no group differences in the girls ' abilities to anticipate consequences of actions . |
| 16 | Held , granting the petition , that where the hearing of an action was divided into two parts and there was an appeal to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand after the determination on the first part , justice required that an appeal therefrom to the Privy Council should lie if such an appeal would have lain had all the issues been determined prior to the appeal to the Court of Appeal ; that , accordingly , the judgment of the Court of Appeal deciding the compromise and cancellation issues in the respondents ' favour and dismissing the petitioner 's action was a final judgment for the purposes of rule 2 ( a ) of the New Zealand ( Appeals to the Privy Council ) Order 1910 entitling the petitioner to appeal as of right to the Privy Council ; and that , therefore , the Court of Appeal had erred in refusing to grant the petitioner leave to appeal and the Board in the exercise of its discretion would grant the petitioner special leave to appeal ( post , pp. 6G , 8B , D , F ) . |
| 17 | At the moment pretenders to the forwards ' crowns are in short supply . |
| 18 | In turn , I subsequently followed up some of the issues raised in the job interviews in the teachers ' day-to-day work . |
| 19 | Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement . |
| 20 | The one factor that still tilts general election predictions in the Tories ' favour is that their hillcrest position seems ultimately impregnable . |
| 21 | Yellow Victorian mansions , with their front gardens asphalted over to make yellow parking areas for the flatholders ' yellow cars . |
| 22 | The pressure of legal penalties , not only against pagans but eventually also against heretics , schismatics , and Jews , no doubt had a part to play ; but to judge by the extent to which Christian mobs could get their way without restraint years before the emperors ' coercive legislation , enacted in the years after 390 , it was no more than a minor part . |
| 23 | The most effective strategy which has been found so far is to involve as many as possible of the key local service providers in the interpreters ' training , so that during the repeated role plays they learn to work together . |
| 24 | Miss Justice Carroll said newspaper reports of the students ' activities did not represent prima facie evidence of a breach . |
| 25 | No targets have been set to reduce air pollution , despite the enormous increase that will inevitably result from greater car and lorry mileages as the governments ' huge road-building programme is implemented . |
| 26 | In particular the researchers are interested in responses to a recent directive concerning the uses and meanings of literacy practices in the writers ' lives . |
| 27 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 28 | On one occasion , it asserted that 50% of the 8,000 workforce of the Harland and Wolff shipyard had clocked in when there were only twenty-five motor cars in the workers ' car park . |
| 29 | The bulk of the deposits appear merely as bookkeeping entries in the banks ' accounts . |
| 30 | However , he did call in his aid the fact that the Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations of the Inns ' Council permit evidence to be adduced which would not ordinarily be admissible in a court of law . |