Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 2 | The books of such company must be available for production to the Council on demand under its powers of inspection contained in the Solicitors ' Accounts Rules 1986 . |
| 3 | These objectives , however , proved vulnerable to external events , especially the disruption caused by the miners ' strike of 1984–5 , and the government was forced to revise them downwards . |
| 4 | She is also entitled to damages for her mental distress caused by the solicitors ' negligence . |
| 5 | Amendments made : No. 49 , in schedule 1 , page 37 , line 21 , leave out from being' to end of line 22 and insert nominated by the students ' association of the college from among students of the college . ' . |
| 6 | She spoke of the charity work done by the Students ' Union , paid compliments to Salford Council and expressed approval of the University 's wider access policy , particularly of the 2 × 2 courses , the first graduates of which will take their degrees next year . |
| 7 | 10.1 The Company shall receive on publication six copies of the printed Work and six copies of the video Work ( in the format and standard of the Company 's choice ) and one copy of any revised or corrected impression all free of charge and shall be entitled to purchase at two-thirds of the United Kingdom published price any further copies of the Work required for the Authors ' personal use and not for resale . |
| 8 | ROY 'S DREAM returned to the winners ' enclosure at Kelso 11 days ago with blood oozing from one of the several whip marks on him . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the date of this year 's conference clashed with the directors ' conference . |
| 10 | Confidence spread through the Quakers ' ranks in the second half and they steadily took control . |
| 11 | The court said that the conclusion the arbitrator had come to could only have been reached by in effect giving evidence to himself in flat contradiction to the evidence given by the applicants ' expert witness , and the arbitrator was guilty of misconduct in failing to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 12 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 13 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 14 | He will usually adhere to an agenda approved by the parties ' legal advisers to ensure that the proper procedures are followed . |
| 15 | Even this concept was strained as the wish of the Labour Government to restrain inflation clashed with the unions ' desire to return to free collective bargaining . |
| 16 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 17 | Their only viable future lies with the kind of measures proposed by the early-1980s SDP — industrial partnership and incomes policies — plus the sort of trade unionism proposed by the electricians ' union , EETPU . |
| 18 | The interest of the members in the company is freely transferable between the members , but in case of any intended sale to an outsider , first the other members ( in proportion ) , secondly the company itself , and thirdly a person appointed by the members ' meeting has a right of pre-emption . |
| 19 | The special cases of literacy usage represented by the analysts ' own academic experience , by the literary forms of their own culture and other specific social conventions are still taken by many , often implicitly , as the appropriate models for describing the ‘ universal ’ qualities of literacy and for testing other groups ' or societies ' conventions of literacy usage . |
| 20 | My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today . |
| 21 | The nature of the work and the environment in which you operate is a matter for your choice , but few careers offer the variety of opportunity provided by the solicitors ' profession . |
| 22 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 23 | The success of the democracy depended upon the citizens ' accepting their civic responsibilities , and hence upon sustaining a sense of identification with the fate of the polis among the citizens . |
| 24 | In a survey with a 75 per cent response rate undertaken by the residents ' association on its new housing estate , some two-thirds of the respondents favoured the setting up of a multi-denominational school . |
| 25 | This arrangement depended upon the Goldsmiths ' willingness to undertake the task but the executors had the power , if the Company declined , to assign the property elsewhere . |
| 26 | The entrance was an inferno of petrol fires as flames flared and flickered across the water , sending a black column of heavy smoke mixed with the MLs ' white smoke-screens slowly rolling north-west on the still night air above the wrecked boats . |
| 27 | Several questions were put by the Deputation and answered , and then the Mayor told the Committee that the Corporation was " very sensible of the liberality of the offer made by the Goldsmiths ' Company " . |
| 28 | Each school has its own method dictated by the dancers ' response to the way that technique is practised , a way which is coloured by national traits in music , society and culture . |
| 29 | But the much more rigorous policy embodied in the Conservatives ' Industrial Relations Act of 1971 was a revolution in the long story . |
| 30 | It misses the significance of the points : first , that the occasional engagement of trade unionism in the promotion of industrial co-operatives had been tactical and opportunistic , rather than principled ; and second , that Co-operation identified as the Consumers ' Movement had opposed any significant role for the industrial co-operative , properly so-called . |