Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour or so later , Roger honoured his cafe-culture principles and I compromised mine by patronising the plastic vulgarity of the deserted skiers ' day lodge . |
| 2 | The government had reportedly also accepted a three-point plan presented by the mediator at the talks , Mgr Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Zacapa and president of the Guatemalan Bishops ' Conference , which called for a commission to document , but not punish , perpetrators of past atrocities and for the government to guarantee the rights of captured rebels and of those who had disarmed . |
| 3 | The advice came from the president of the National Farmers ' Union , Mr Simon Gourlay , who discussed the matter with ministers . |
| 4 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 5 | The two were speaking as Mrs Mary Whitehouse , president of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , called for a clamp-down on screen violence . |
| 6 | In 1984 he became President of the British Bankers ' Association . |
| 7 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |
| 8 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 9 | Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 . |
| 10 | Union leader Arthur Scargill 's dream of political victory crumbled with the collapse of the national miners ' strike . |
| 11 | Where the bearings of timbers are inaccessible , it may be necessary to drill deep holes for saturation of the buried beams ' ends by injection . |
| 12 | That was a time when a foreign passport offered little defence against arbitrary injustice from the authorities , and the very mention of the Avant-garde artists ' names incurred the risk of repression . |
| 13 | I was encouraged in this by the good result of the experimental members ' evening in the 1990-1 programme , when half a dozen members gave excellent short talks . |
| 14 | One direct result of the nuclear authorities ' assumptions on the remote possibility of catastrophic accidents , however , was that its plans for dealing with an emergency were consequently limited . |
| 15 | But a recent study of the Capetian kings ' household has traced a growing reliance on knights of lowly birth and clerks whose claim to prominence sprang solely from their usefulness . |
| 16 | In a bold demonstration of the federal authorities ' resolve to thwart any concrete Slovene actions which might lead to secession , late on Oct. 4 JNA military police occupied the Slovene territorial defence force headquarters in Ljubljana ( Slovenia 's capital ) . |
| 17 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 18 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 19 | Thus it is ironic that he more than once offers a cold-hearted appraisal of the junior hobbits ' utility . |
| 20 | This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes . |
| 21 | At a conference of the Foreign Ministers of the EEC states in Rome the following month Carrington made a general proposal for the conclusion of an international treaty guaranteeing Afghanistan 's status as a ‘ neutral ’ state , which in his view would provide the Soviet Union the possibility of withdrawing its troops on a legal basis in light of the United Nations ' resolution on this issue . |
| 22 | But it 's the riot squads that follow up to make the arrests and today , on the fields of battle around Orgreave , the police were involved in some of the most vicious hand-to-hand fighting of the entire miners ' dispute . |
| 23 | Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects . |
| 24 | The photograph shows , from left to right : Samuel Cantley , Rev Martin Smyth MP , Fred Owens and Colin Baxter during the presentation of the £500.00 in the aid of the Romanian Orphans ' Fund . |
| 25 | The Institute is to host an early evening concert in aid of the Chartered Accountants ' Benevolent Association . |
| 26 | She was the driving force behind last month 's Mozart evening at Chartered Accountants ' Hall in aid of the Chartered Accountants ' Benevolent Association . |
| 27 | Named after one of the early kings of Ireland , he is a half-brother of the Irish Guards ' mascot . |
| 28 | Its agenda would include constitutional changes and the recognition of the Baltic states ' independence . |
| 29 | Benno Baksteen , chairman of the Dutch pilots ' association , said : ‘ A sudden loss of wind can cause the aircraft to lose wind speed suddenly and to such an extent that it can no longer fly and falls . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything more callous , ’ said Jim McDonald , chairman of the Loyalist Prisoners ' Welfare Association . |