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

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1 The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard .
2 Any one such focal place would thus have only one function , rather than the range of functions of the geographers ' central place .
3 The EC has suspended a grant towards restocking the Pyrenees with eagles and vultures because of fears of the roads ' impact on the birds .
4 For example , the experience of members of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , who in both their own estimation and that of observers were adjudged respectable married women , shows that family misfortune , particularly in the form of sickness and unemployment , could quickly plunge a family into poverty , whereupon the wife would probably resort to strategies similar to those of her poorer sister .
5 Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation .
6 By contrast , production by what became in time the Co-operative Wholesale Society is , in principle at least , under the control of the general body of members of the consumers ' societies .
7 People within the health and social services had been aware for years of the patients ' accusations , but nothing was done .
8 What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case .
9 ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ .
10 The information stored includes names and addresses of existing and potential customers together with details of the customers ' operations and views on the customers ' credit worthiness , payment facilities , discounts , etc .
11 The results of these tests were correlated with details of the children 's home backgrounds .
12 The team also spoke with representatives of the Students ' League and the Group for Social Dialogue , whose members included many leading intellectuals .
13 Children 's publishers are invited to an open meeting to discuss this year 's Children 's Book Week with representatives of the Children 's Book Foundation and the Daily Telegraph from 12 to 3 p.m. on Friday 29th January at the Publishers Association , , .
14 Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible .
15 Since they can not be planned in terms of the students ' likely destinations , they must have some other kind of rationale or logic .
16 That kind of action is defensible or not in terms of the students ' civil rights , and in terms of the constraints such activities present to the civil rights of the general public .
17 Jane explained the difference in terms of the schools ' differing perceptions of her ability :
18 That is , to explain the experimental findings in terms of the subjects ' account of the experimental rather than causal processes .
19 A different view of assessment however , can lead to considerable benefits in terms of the pupils ' sense of value and personal motivation .
20 Overall , I am coming to the view that the main cultural element is the collective wish to have a non-relation , or at least one that is strictly delimited , between workers and managers and , in turn , between the worker and his enterprise except in terms of the workers ' culture which is one of withdrawal .
21 The Criminal Division also binds the Divisional Court which hears appeals from decisions of the Magistrates ' Court .
22 The great idea had been to hold Saturday Classes open also to members of the Women 's League and the Keep Fit Association , but in the event we encountered from our Sister Organisations a most unsisterly and almost total absence of support .
23 Independents won seven seats and two were reserved for guerrillas who gave up their arms ; it was anticipated that these would be allocated to representatives of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) , a guerrilla group which signed a peace pact with the government on Dec. 28 and was due to disarm in the far northern province of Sucre on Jan. 26 .
24 This project looks at aspects of the migrants ' housing experience , using aggregate statistics to establish general tenure patterns and interviews to recreate biographical histories .
25 The steward told me how the management , had by chance , come across records of the women 's wages .
26 Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making .
27 Payments to farmers and landowners to open up out-of-bounds areas were unnecessary , because many were already public rights of way , according to a survey conducted by members of the Ramblers ' Association .
28 Coffee morning : Everyone is welcome to the village hall on Wednesday at 10am for a coffee morning held by members of the Children 's Society .
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