Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The EC delegation raised questions about the ASEAN members ' continued status as " developing countries " given their favourable balance of trade with Europe . |
| 7 | Capital was not the rural areas ' only contribution to the development of the industrial economy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The working classes ' basic humanity had , Reich argued , been distorted by bourgeois values and priorities . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 19 | Emecheta insisted that although she was a girl she wanted an education and managed to get a scholarship to the Methodist Girls ' High School . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That this is the nub of the British governments ' sudden concern for the long-term unemployed in West Belfast is in little doubt among community activists . |
| 22 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 23 | The Institute is to host an early evening concert in aid of the Chartered Accountants ' Benevolent Association . |
| 24 | She was the driving force behind last month 's Mozart evening at Chartered Accountants ' Hall in aid of the Chartered Accountants ' Benevolent Association . |
| 25 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 26 | Adoption of XIMP allows for a common interface to the different vendors ' kana-to-kanji conversion front-end processors . |
| 27 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 28 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 29 | Here as elsewhere , Darwin 's theory showed its value as a working hypothesis ; and by the 1870s Flower could argue that all the hoofed animals ' general line of descent and relationships could be worked out using fossil discoveries . |
| 30 | Caution may arise from the civil servants ' commendable desire to protect their Minister from criticism or embarrassment , but it may also result from Ministerial reluctance to contemplate unpopular options . |