Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This assertion was grounded on results of several studies , including one based upon the 25 WFS countries mentioned above and which reported that if all mothers had seven or more years of schooling , other things being equal ( that is , all mothers ' offspring would have the same conditions concerning survival as those observed for the educated mothers ' newborn babies ) , infant mortality would fall by 41 per cent and death rates of children aged 1–4 by 60 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) . |
| 2 | The 1989 defence budget called for 1.7 per cent growth in spending to 11.75 billion lei ( approximately £500 million — Britain 's defence budget in the same period was £19.2 billion ) , but this is insufficient for the armed forces ' perceived needs . |
| 3 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |
| 4 | THE CHOICE of the ‘ capital ’ of Cornwall 's one-time china clay industry as the venue for the Liberal Democrats ' penultimate and most glitzy election rally last night was no accident . |
| 5 | For Belgium to qualify for the European Communities ' final stage of economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] , the budget deficit would have to be reduced from the current 6.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to 3 per cent by 1996 . |
| 6 | NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open . |
| 7 | Young homeless people are referred for legal advice to the centre by agencies such as the Young Persons ' Advisory Service in Bolton Street , Liverpool . |
| 8 | As the Indian Divisions ' official history records the fact , the men of the 4th had , at Alamein , ‘ been something more than spectators and something less than participants in the main battle . |
| 9 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 10 | The EC delegation raised questions about the ASEAN members ' continued status as " developing countries " given their favourable balance of trade with Europe . |
| 11 | He is Manager of the Royal Air Force Veteran 's Team , Veterans ' Representative of the Royal Air Force Athletic Association Executive Committee , Secretary of the Eastern Veterans ' Athletic Association and Distribution Manager of the Royal Air Force 's own Athletic magazine . |
| 12 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
| 13 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
| 14 | For Inspector Theo Dawson , head of the Metropolitan Police 's Vice Unit , violent pimps are a priority . |
| 15 | First , in the earlier period there were wide margins of discretion within an extremely informal mode of policing — the proverbial clip around the ear , or the dreaded flick of the Edwardian policemen 's rolled cape — which has been replaced by the more likely possibility of prosecution , or the issue of formal caution . |
| 16 | He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives . |
| 17 | Yesterday 's crunch meeting of the Progressive Democrats ' parliamentary party was adjourned until tomorrow , when they may be left with little option but to quit the Reynolds government . |
| 18 | The fact that it was not expressly mentioned in the Council of the European Communities ' general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series , p. 7 ) makes no difference , since , useful as it is , the programme only contains guidelines and is not exhaustive . |
| 19 | The motion , which fell three votes short of the necessary 289 votes , was proposed by Philippe Vasseur ( UDF ) in protest against the government 's support for reform of the European Communities ' common agricultural policy [ see p. 38931 ] . |
| 20 | The essential problem of enquiring into what may be in other people 's minds has been captured by John Berger , who has made one of the most imaginative reconstructions of the European guest-workers ' social world . |
| 21 | A pro-forma statement of the combined companies ' net assets was £294m . |
| 22 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 23 | The Chief of the Armed Forces ' General Staff , Gen. José Valdivia Dueñas , had not been implicated , according to Fujimori , and would be reinstated in his post . |
| 24 | Recruitment of Compact students is part of the participating companies ' normal annual recruitment programmes . |
| 25 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
| 26 | This tale of personal resolution is saved from saccharine overkill by Byrne 's fine , tortured performance , the children 's refusal to be cute and an almost lyrical conjunction of the young boys ' hidden feelings of neglect and their father 's coming to terms with his bereavement . |
| 27 | On June 6-9 Albania hosted , for the first time , a meeting of the Balkan countries ' national commissions for UNESCO . |
| 28 | We 've got five pairs of the new ladies ' red suede Dance trainers from Matchstick , worth £24.99 , to give away — they come in black ( right ) and blue , too . |
| 29 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 30 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |