Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , not unnaturally , led to further confusion on the students ' part , and the treatment suggested here was adopted as the solution that fitted best with what the students felt they wanted to write . |
| 2 | His concentration on the consultants ' review is ridiculous . |
| 3 | A Royal Commission was established to inquire into Charities , and its chapter on the Goldsmiths ' Company was published in 1822 . |
| 4 | They first showed that the inhibitor had no effect on the rats ' ability to swim in general , nor , if the animals had already learned the maze by the time it was injected , did it prevent them from swimming it correctly . |
| 5 | Whether the mother or the father is younger or if they are of the same age , has little effect on the infants ' survival chances , in so far as both parents are in the age most favourable to procreate healthy infants . |
| 6 | The effect on the crofters ' income would be much the same . |
| 7 | ’ participation in the nuclear weapons test programme had not had a detectable effect on the participants ' expectation of life , nor on their total risk of developing cancer ’ |
| 8 | This is the dress worn by the priest on the Harvesters ' Vase . |
| 9 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 10 | But it also suggests that industrial relations have a relative autonomy of their own , and hence are an independent influence on the railways ' response to the pressures of commercialism . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Another initially important barrier to the spread of appliance use was the limited capacity on the consumers ' side of the terminals . |
| 13 | Their leader Lord Lovat thought their safe return was due to ‘ the opposition being half-hearted or badly trained ’ and not to any skill on the raiders ' part . |
| 14 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 15 | Furthermore , since the board is dominated by the most senior representatives of management ( this term will be used , except where the context requires otherwise , to refer to the executive directors and senior managers ) it can hardly be regarded as a body providing independent supervision of management on the shareholders ' behalf . |
| 16 | But to see the delight on the players ' faces on their return to the headquarters marquee after each day 's match for a glass or two of DB export and sumptuous food made for a highly successful occasion . |
| 17 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 18 | They had offered Dalglish an emotional welcome when he emerged before the game and took an unfamiliar place on the visitors ' bench . |
| 19 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 20 | But Dixon , who spent nine years at Stamford Bridge , may have to settle for a place on the subs ' bench as he continues his return from a back injury . |
| 21 | Both the taxi driver and the privatizer of the police force failed to get a place on the candidates ' list , and the small number of women did proportionately better than the men . |
| 22 | Ryan Giggs , back in the squad , must settle for a place on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 23 | Striker Tony Cascarino , Townsend 's former clubmate at Stamford Bridge , also has a hamstring problem and may have to forego his usual place on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 24 | The Cadbury Committee suggests auditors should test going concern assumptions , and give an opinion on the directors ' report . |
| 25 | This summer come Post Trail Riding and discover excellent riding on the drovers ' trails and bridle paths of Britain 's Big Country Northumbria . |
| 26 | In Spain , civil war exploded in 1936 owing to the roughly equal popular support commanded by the two sides , the rebels ' failure to achieve a swift victory , the Republic 's arming of the union militias , and — crucially — the fascist powers ' intervention on the Nationalists ' side . |
| 27 | Letter : Bottled water on the Tories ' platform |
| 28 | The only person on the organisers ' side of the room who spoke a language I understand , was Peter Slade , a trim , slight figure , quietly expounding his belief in the value of drama in work with children . |
| 29 | Two well known piping adjudicators have announced their retirement from active service on the adjudicators ' panel . |
| 30 | There were two major reports on the news , one showing mass rallies in Spain on the eve of the elections there , hundreds of thousands of ordinary people crammed into sports stadia to hear their party leaders , and the other on the miners ' ballot , with interviews among the miners who travelled in busloads from coalfields in Derbyshire and Lancashire for the Sheffield rally , interviews with Michael McGahey on the road about the vilification of Scargill , and the sight of Scargill himself appealing to the miners to vote for their union and against the National Coal Board . |