Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually a reply came from the Islands ' Director of Administration and Legal Services , Rowan McCallum . |
| 2 | In my judgment , he would inevitably have come to the conclusion , as a matter of necessary inference , that the plaintiffs were paying and the defendants accepting the money subject to repayment if the action resulted in the plaintiffs ' favour . |
| 3 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
| 4 | As ‘ agent of the army ’ his name reappeared in the Stationers ' Company register during 1653–5 , when he entered The Perfect Diurnall and several pamphlets . |
| 5 | Just then a bell rang for the servants ' dinner . |
| 6 | Revolutionary propaganda inspired by events in Russia had an effect , but the chief cause for mutiny lay in the soldiers ' disgust at their commanders ' inept leadership , Nivelle 's in particular . |
| 7 | The settlement looked like a workers ' victory . |
| 8 | A potential source of an unfair offence stemmed from the pupils ' position as ‘ pupils ’ as opposed to ‘ teachers ’ where , by definition , teachers hold the ultimate authority . |
| 9 | A tremor ran through the boats ' cables , the iron lighters , just on the move , chocked gently together . |
| 10 | The garden became like an ants ' nest as snaking rows of people clambered up our hillside . |
| 11 | It set out therefore to ensure , in consultation with the DES , that surveying came within the polytechnics ' orbit and that ‘ centres of excellence ’ for surveying education were established . |
| 12 | Failure to take all these factors into account resulted in the monarchists ' excessively optimistic view of the likelihood of an imminent restoration . |
| 13 | The strangeness lay in the mens ' uniforms which were the standard French infantry uniforms . |
| 14 | Although they were all allocated to coal traffic in the East Midlands , their arrival coincided with the miners ' strike , and in truth BR only tolerated the construction of so many because the components were already on order . |
| 15 | In Allen v. Flood a dispute arose between the ironworkers ' union and woodworkers , the former objecting to certain work being done by the latter . |