Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] the [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights .
2 It is one of eight in the Dolls ' House , all worked with royal cyphers and the great orders of chivalry .
3 The seventeenth century witnessed a tremendous expansion of the lord 's demesne at the expense of some of the tenants ' arable and possibly at the loss of their commons as well .
4 Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow .
5 Suddenly , he called out two licence plate numbers ; one of these , except for one digit , turned out to match the number plate of one of the kidnappers ' vans .
6 In the event of a failure of one of the lexicographers ' printers , the 3812 may be configured for their use .
7 The building has been refurbished , and access is either by boat , or across trackless fields ; but there can be few more attractive places to spend a fishing holiday , right on the edge of one of the Borders ' most productive lochs .
8 He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium .
9 The Lac de Gaube was the scene too of one of the Pyrenees ' best-known accidents .
10 Their total numbers were assessed as being of the order of 350–400,000 against the Allies ' 500,000 .
11 Moreover he found that a concession made in the pleadings to the effect that the plaintiffs did not allege that the defendants had made use of any of the plaintiffs ' trade secrets since leaving their employment was , in the light of the judgment of Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 617 fatal .
12 Page 29 Going Dutch : An international share issue and privatisation will follow the merger of two of the Netherlands ' largest banks , NMB and Postbank , the state-owned postal savings bank .
13 He 'd worked in the building for five years , and knew the names of most of the occupants ' visitors .
14 They 're being coached by one of the country 's best female players , but they 've also got the support of MOST of the boys ' team .
15 Furthermore , the cause-and-effect relationship which forms the basis of most of the students ' predictions is actually reversed to an effect-and-cause relationship .
16 Hooper , chosen ahead of David James because of his experience , could not be faulted for either of the Russians ' goals and desperately wants a chance to make the Anfield number one shirt his own .
17 It was thought that the purchaser automatically took on board liability for all of the employees ' rights except those in respect of pension schemes , save in the case of contractual rights to receive payments into personal schemes which would be unaffected .
18 This norm contrasts with that of the groups ' careful speech which is very much closer to traditional Dyirbal ( see Dixon 1971 for a description ) .
19 But the Aussies have now decided that the Central Park clash might divert players ' minds from the build-up to the final , with eight of the Broncos ' side in the Kangaroos squad .
20 The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance .
21 Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive .
22 A compulsive polo watcher , he was familiar with many of the O'Briens ' horses and would probably have to rearrange the list when he saw which ones they were playing .
23 You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons .
24 For one thing , the Club minutes are missing from 1911 to 1920 , along with most of the Artisans ' records and those of the bondholders ' and all the sub-committees !
25 The village was a scene of devastation with most of the villagers ' houses flattened by mainly British shellfire .
26 If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement .
27 But the distinction between Public and grammar remained unclear , although the lines were sharpened by the creation in 1869 of the Headmasters ' Conference and the consequent definition of an inner circle of boys ' Public Schools , properly so called .
28 Perhaps more important for our purposes is the economists ' view of law which is something quite different from that of the lawyers ' traditional idea of a command backed up by a sanction .
29 The new venture , co-ordinated by the US Council for Automotive Research , will investigate design , development , testing and possible manufacturing of electric vehicle components that could eventually be used in each of the companies ' vehicles .
30 Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes .
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