Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though delighting to read in Blackwood 's of the exploits of imperial heroes , the educated British public showed little personal inclination for service in the assorted white men 's graves which made up the tropical dependencies . |
| 2 | In the opening speech , the Malaysian Prime Minister , Mahathir Mohamad , made a strongly worded attack on the rich industrialized countries ' attempts to force developing countries to compromise their economic development and foot much of the bill for environmental protection measures . |
| 3 | It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) . |
| 4 | It became a mere echo of the old governing classes ' opinions . |
| 5 | The few surviving justices ' diaries give conflicting impressions . |
| 6 | The figures in Table 2.4 demonstrate the vital importance of overtime and other payments for the male manual workers ' earnings ( over 25 per cent ) and their limited significance for non-manual workers . |
| 7 | When the Stock Exchange opened the FT-SE index of the 100 largest companies ' shares jumped by more than 130 points and peaked at lunchtime with a 151-point rise . |
| 8 | In the light of this list of users , Anthony offers the following four users ' needs : |
| 9 | A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs . |
| 10 | So if after five months you started paying it again , you 've got to pay the previous four months ' premiums . |
| 11 | Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent . |
| 12 | In East Berlin on Feb. 7 the three left-wing citizens ' movements ( New Forum , Democracy Now and Initiative for Peace and Human Rights — by then all represented in the government ) agreed to campaign together as the Electoral Alliance " 90 ( Wahlbündnis " 90 ) . |
| 13 | Your article gives the three main parties ' responses . |
| 14 | The leading rural workers ' unions refused to sign the government 's " agrarian reconciliation " agreement in September on the grounds that it was an attempt to arrest agrarian reform , did not address the needs of the rural population — an estimated 170,000 families lacked sufficient land to maintain a subsistence living — and favoured private land tenure . |
| 15 | The retail commercial banks ' assets are illustrated in Table 3 . |
| 16 | He so impressed the permanent secretary , Sir Donald Maitland , that he was invited to the key civil servants ' committees . |
| 17 | Some biographers have suggested that the reason was that the presence of Mrs Taylor , presiding over one of the great English bishops ' palaces , would have been an embarrassing reminder of the frailty of her natural father , the Royal Martyr . |
| 18 | The two leaders reaffirmed their desire to see an improvement in relations between North and South Korea , including an early resumption of the suspended inter-Korean Premiers ' talks . |
| 19 | In Japan during the 1920s expanding employers ' associations also became active in opposing government labour policy . |
| 20 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 21 | then joined as third , fourth and fifth defendants certain solicitors who had acted for the first two defendants and who , it was alleged , had been knowingly concerned , within the meaning of sections 6(2) and 61(1) of the Act of 1986 , with the first two defendants ' breaches of sections 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 of that Act . |
| 22 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 23 | To receive the full benefit of the policy , therefore , it must be held to maturity , particularly since the first two years ' premiums are largely taken up in charges . |
| 24 | In some versions of this type of forecasting , the buyer is obliged to purchase the requirements detailed in the first three months of the rolling forecast , so that , in effect , as he rolls his forecast on , he places an order for the first three months ' requirements and forecasts those of the next nine months . |
| 25 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |
| 26 | In the autumn of 1914 Nina Boyle and Margaret Damer Dawson established the first voluntary women 's police force , the Women Volunteer Police Corps . |
| 27 | Founder Nicola Claire believes the John Peel Children 's Centre , Ealing , is the only existing children 's arts centre . |
| 28 | Further , instead of taking the average of the twenty best years ' earnings after 1978 , SERPS will now take an average earnings of all years worked . |
| 29 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 30 | In the Netherlands , as a result of a long history of legislative enactment in socio-economic affairs and close involvement of unions and employers with government in this area the two national employers ' confederations ( denominational and non-denominational ) also carry somewhat greater weight than their member associations . |