Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This department will have responsibilities for the Office of Arts & Libraries ( OAL ) , in particular for the Arts Council and the national museums , adding to them the Home Office responsibilities for the broadcasting services ' legislative framework and the BBC in particular . |
| 2 | As it happens , the Americans are partly responsible for the building firms ' good fortune . |
| 3 | For the band members ' own ‘ salaries ’ , a Certificate of Tax Deposits can be purchased from the Inland Revenue . |
| 4 | The charter received a more cautious welcome from Ernie Preston , North-East spokesman for the transport users ' consultative committee . |
| 5 | The Government 's latest position on the Maastricht Bill debacle , presented with patrician brazenness by Douglas Hurd yesterday as the law officers ' latest position , is that it matters not a whit whether MPs approve Labour 's amendment on the social chapter . |
| 6 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 7 | Recent anxiety about the grammar schools ' perceived responsibility for reinforcing divisions between the middle and working classes , and about the wastage of talent which their continued existence perpetuated , has brought their traditional curriculum under severe attack . |
| 8 | Interesting , then , that his book was published at a time when the Western world was still recoiling after the oil sheikhs ' first shock to our system . |
| 9 | The former Australian captain , who retired from international rugby after the world champions ' 26–3 victory over South Africa in Cape Town in August , inspired a guest XV to a convincing win over the Light Blues . |
| 10 | Fenella and Caspar both knelt down , taking a gentle hold of the Tree Spirits ' maimed branches , searching for the right words to convey their gratitude . |
| 11 | For the record , Courtney 's current reading material is 12 Days On The Road , the recently published account of the Sex Pistols ' fatal American tour . |
| 12 | Despite the consistent influence of the Crown Agents ' technical assistance in all these colonies , a remarkable diversity still prevailed . |
| 13 | ‘ I went North with a nurse to get him , ’ says Peter Elliott , secretary of the Entertainment Artists ' Benevolent Fund . |
| 14 | One of the welfare feminists ' main demands was for family endowment ( later called family allowances ) . |
| 15 | As Figure 17.6 shows , wholesale funding has accounted for a growing share of the building societies ' total funding . |
| 16 | Such interventions have tended to undermine the autonomy of the state enterprises ' internal industrial relations institutions , especially where governments have funded concessions to the workforce beyond what management was prepared to consider ( cf. Kelf-Cohen 1973 : 176 ) , and have encouraged complex bargaining relations extending beyond the boundary of the enterprise to encompass the political authorities themselves ( see below ) . |
| 17 | The emphasis in recovery is that the unmanageability of the family members ' own life is a matter of personal choice : the actions of the primary sufferer do not inevitably dictate the reactions of the family member . |
| 18 | The current form in which pop reproduces itself , the music video , is the perfect post-modern form , standing as it does at the vector of the leisure industries ' new situation . |
| 19 | Increased diagnostic accuracy by team members was associated with longer experience of team working , regardless of the team members ' professional background . |
| 20 | Brodsky countered that the broadening of the auction houses ' public accountability could only help the market . |
| 21 | ( Hop bitterness does not sit well with the wheat beers ' particular style of fruitiness . |
| 22 | It takes visual sensitivity to realise that a meandering medieval street is quite different from the traffic engineers ' meandering street and this is why the consultants ' perspective drawings look so horribly wrong . |
| 23 | The large numbers of children are , however , well contained within the Horse Rangers ' spacious accommodation and discipline is strict , as the organisation is run on military lines , although the atmosphere is relaxed and friendly . |
| 24 | And the devastating duo are set to steal the show in the Debmat Diamonds ' full strength line-up . |
| 25 | In the early stages after sentencing , supervision would be strict , and because of this would have an effect upon the probation officers ' traditional , caring function , emphasising instead a more custodial role . |
| 26 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 27 | Environmentalists claim that the Russian authorities , desperate for foreign investment , are turning a blind eye to the logging companies ' many breaches of the country 's nature protection laws European 22-25 October |
| 28 | Once aboard two LSIs , the raiders carried out successful rehearsals at Scapa Flow ( north Scotland ) , despite the navy 's understandable challenge to the carrier ships ' small craft bobbing about in the night . |
| 29 | I can not comment on whether last Friday 's events were reactive to the security forces ' recent successes , but the searches on 11 and 12 January were , by the standards of the hon. Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) , proactive exercises in terms of their success . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Trades Union Congress today accuses the Government of ‘ narrow ideological hostility ’ to the trade unions ' traditional celebration of the May Day public holiday . |