Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish you could have heard the session of the Assembly on industry , and in particular the speech by Les Dennison , branch chairman of the plumbers ' trades union in Coventry , England . |
| 2 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 3 | Er for instance look at the doctors ' leaflets , the brochure goes on about er how much the money has been saved for the health council and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | In 1942 he joined forces with other keen walkers to form the North-East branch of the ramblers ' association , an interest which he kept up all his life . |
| 5 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
| 6 | As I wheeled my tenth-hand push-bike through the gates of the Parsons ' large detached house and made my way across the gravel forecourt past the guests ' Volvos and Audis , I began to feel uncomfortably out of my depth . |
| 7 | A fire in the roof space above the directors ' boardroom was to blame for the match being delayed 40 minutes , but the fans did not panic as police and fire service personnel ensured there was no danger . |
| 8 | Since 1964 , however , a number of changes , including the creation of new police liaison committees , the reorganisation of police authorities in the former Metropolitan Counties , and an enhanced role for the National Reporting Centre during the miners ' strike , have transformed the context of decision-making about policing . |
| 9 | Goodwill arising on consolidation before 1st April 1985 and arising after 1st April 1990 is amortised through the profit and loss account over the directors ' estimate of its useful economic life . |
| 10 | The purpose of this research is to assess the impact of the Data Protection Act from the users ' point of view , with particular reference to the small business . |
| 11 | He was also given a key role in the last election campaign as the Tories ' Mr Nasty who could be called upon to make all kinds of claims about Labour 's plans . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So happy is Yorath with the way his team is shaping , he can afford the luxury of having the 19-year-old boy wonder on the substitutes ' bench for the World Cup qualifier against the Group Four leaders . |
| 14 | town in Hertfordshire near which Bleak House is situated ; it is the home town of the bricklayers ' wives interviewed by Bucket at Tom-all-Alone 's , BH 22 , 31 . |
| 15 | AN all-star team led by former Northern Ireland and Manchester United star Norman Whiteside is to play a fund raising match for the Boys ' Model team . |
| 16 | Having arranged a guard on the aircraft we all went back to Shaibah , where we were entertained by the one lady passenger in the Officers ' Mess . |
| 17 | The relationship between the personal representatives of a deceased partner and the trustee of a bankrupt partner and the continuing partners is considered further in Chapter 8. ( b ) Under the Solicitors ' Act Much of the work of a solicitor is now the subject of regulations made by the Law Society under the Solicitors ' Act . |
| 18 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 19 | Private Richard Downs , 19 , said he was serving as a bar steward in the officers ' mess of the First Battalion Duke of Wellington 's Regiment on election night — April 9 . |
| 20 | Pat O'C Hegarty , Executive Committee nominee on the Pensioners ' Committee was a very welcome guest and presented us with the Association 's usual contribution of £900 for which we are most thankful . |
| 21 | Bulimia , according to a recent Drug and Therapeutics bulletin from the Consumers ' Association , is suffered by around two percent of young women in Britain . |
| 22 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 23 | The women 's support groups and community organisation of the miners ' strike have given the union movement a new and wider perspective . |
| 24 | Karnival , another high profile area of the Students ' Union , concentrates its work on fund raising and in the last year raised over £100,000 for various charities . |
| 25 | In order to produce sufficient likeness to ivory , the thick enamel layer on the hippos ' teeth will have to be burned away with acid . |
| 26 | It is interesting for today 's connoisseur to look at the cellar list of the Dolls ' House and ruminate on the joys of opening a bottle or two . |
| 27 | We met her , too , as the patron goddess of the birds ' nest gatherers of southern Java , who pursue what must be one of the world 's most hair-raising professions . |
| 28 | It must be admitted , however , that there is an exception to this in the rump region of the zebras ' markings . |
| 29 | Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building . |
| 30 | ‘ I want a fifteen hundredweight truck to the Officers ' Mess immediately . ’ |