Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain Baxter , 19 , from Aviemore , won the junior men 's giant slalom at the STS British Children and Junior Alpine Championships at Alpe d'Heux . |
| 2 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Eliot changed ‘ May midnight ’ , ( recalling Gerontion 's ‘ depraved May ’ and ceremonies of spring ) to ‘ summer midnight ’ , maintaining a primitive connection with ‘ Midsummer Fires ’ , ceremonies copiously described by Frazer , while looking back , too , to the Hollow Men 's circular dance . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A pro-forma statement of the combined companies ' net assets was £294m . |
| 9 | The EC delegation raised questions about the ASEAN members ' continued status as " developing countries " given their favourable balance of trade with Europe . |
| 10 | Capital was not the rural areas ' only contribution to the development of the industrial economy . |
| 11 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The ‘ politics ’ of the motor car throughout the inter-war years depended to a large extent on the vigorous leadership given by the private motorists ' main organization , the Automobile Association . |
| 14 | Hence the private producers ' marginal cost curve for films reflects the market value to producers of using these resources to make meals instead , but it no longer reflects the opportunity cost or utility valuation of forgone meals to society . |
| 15 | The working classes ' basic humanity had , Reich argued , been distorted by bourgeois values and priorities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The fall of the tragic character into either a real ( that is , narrated ) death or a ( again , narrated ) living death will aid the disavowal , the catharsis , of the non-disabled audiences ' ever-present fear for the loss of their own ‘ able-bodiedness ’ . |
| 19 | The mainstream critics ' thankless task ( their privilege ) is only completed when every last cultural product is herded into this universal corral of taste where , to quote Bourdieu once more , ‘ the most classifying privilege has the privilege of appearing to be the most natural one ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 22 | In the course of a remarkable year , Mhairi , who played off plus-two , won both the British and Belgian Girls ' Championships , the Scottish Girls ' Closed Championship and the Helen Holm Trophy . |
| 23 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 24 | A member of the Scottish Women 's Rural Institute at her West Kilbride home , Carol recently entered and won the regional final of a national competition among all Women 's Institute members in the country . |
| 25 | At a recent meeting with the ADSW , the Scottish Offices 's Social Work Services Group had tables an extensive agenda . |
| 26 | The outcome of the interested parties ' diplomatic exchanges depended heavily on the course of the fighting . |
| 27 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 28 | This is the first time a Black Ark has ever been sunk and marks the beginning of the High Elves ' naval ascendancy over their dark kindred . |
| 29 | The British girls ' decomposed bodies were found in a forest in New South Wales on September 20 . |
| 30 | The British Women 's Amateur Championship , at Pannal in June , remains the top event on the calendar , while the amateurs also relish the opportunity to rub shoulders with the pros in the British Women 's Open in August . |