Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a defence to exceeding the normal drivers ' hours of work , it was argued successfully , before the Kent Justices sitting at Sandwich , that these hours had to be departed from having regard to the care and comfort of the passengers . |
| 2 | In a previous BBC serial about the moral bankruptcy and satanic drabness of a fictional new town , the polite credits ' acknowledgment to the real modern conurbation which had admitted the cameras had an inadvertent satirical ring . |
| 3 | He was a founder member of the Junior Ministers ' Convention in 1888 . |
| 4 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 5 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 6 | The European champions ' chances of achieving such an extravagant result are dimmed by the absences of Miodrag Belodedic , Ilja Najdoski , Goran Vasijevic and Dejan Savicevic — all banned . |
| 7 | The European Parliament on Sept. 12 , in a resolution stating that only a diplomatic solution could settle the crisis ( passed by 300 to 70 with 19 abstentions ) , called on Italy as current holder of the presidency of the European Communities ' Council of Ministers to convene a special EC summit to find such a solution . |
| 8 | Bell , 30 , was a member of the Aberdeen squad who won the European Cup-Winners ' Cup in 1983 and is a former Scottish Under-21 international . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm glad to see so many clowns here instead of where they should be — in Westminster or back in their constituencies , ’ quips Ron Moody , president of Clowns International , at the official opening of the European Clowns ' Convention on 21 March . |
| 10 | Moreover , they were the heirs of the regalists ' campaign against mortmain and the political economists ' attacks on the entailed mayorazgos . |
| 11 | ( 13 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg , wife of the Secretary of Labour , paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
| 12 | ( 37 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg … paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
| 13 | They are found at various points on plants , including fruits as on those of Crescentia spp. and in 15 other genera of Bignoniaceae , and the nectar may make up substantial parts of the ant diet as in the case of the extrafloral nectar of Caularthron bilamellatum ( Orchidaceae ) of Central America , which comprises up to 48% of the associated ants ' diet at some times of the year . |
| 14 | The rebuilt merchants ' houses in East Grinstead have already been noted , but there were similar examples to be found in Petworth ; North Street in that town served as the principal thoroughfare and the more prosperous tradesmen expanded their accommodation when individual and urban fortunes allowed . |
| 15 | Arnaldo Ferreira , a local leader of the Rural Workers ' Union in Eldorado do Carajas , Amazonia , was shot dead as he slept , four days after the discovery of Vinha 's body . |
| 16 | The Anglo Saxons ' solution to chapping and peeling was a poultice of beet , lettuce , coriander , herbs and crumbs mixed with water . |
| 17 | It is for this reason that sociologists have often assumed that they must respect the professional psychologists ' judgement in these matters , and so have treated Freud from their viewpoint as unscientific and unusable . |
| 18 | Large military spending took place during the war years of 1914–18 , followed by the Allied countries ' demands for huge reparations in the Treaty of Versailles . |
| 19 | These courses , which are organised in collaboration with the Small-Scale Miners ' Association of Zimbabwe and the Intermediate Technology Development Group , are designed to give intensive practical training in basic geology , gold prospection , surveying , sampling , orebody evaluation , business and financial planning as well as covering mining law , mine engineering , beneficiation methods , etc . |
| 20 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 21 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
| 22 | The Moody Blues ' Nights In White Satin . |
| 23 | Councillor Anne James , spokeswoman for the Torfaen Environmental Health Committee , criticised the private caterers ' approach to food preparation with limited resources . |
| 24 | HOME Office and planning issues dominate the concerns of MPs who won places in the private members ' ballot for legislative time in the coming session . |
| 25 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 26 | They still see Scotland as north Britain , an appendage that can be guaranteed to play its part in the Labour unionists ' drama of periodically legitimising long periods of Tory rule by brief interregnums of Labour control . |
| 27 | These related constraints at the international and national levels left the government with very little room to manoeuvre , and selling corporate peace under the given conditions stretched the Labour leaders ' powers of statesmanship to the utmost . |
| 28 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 29 | The AI representatives met government and security officials , including ministers and the armed forces ' Chief of General Staff , and interviewed victims of torture and other abuses , as well as other witnesses and human rights activists . |
| 30 | During the summer , Galleria Contini was showing the pictures at their branch in the rich Italians ' play-ground of Cortina d'Ampezzo . |