Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His early choice of subject set the tone for his later work — — Goya 's Queen Maria Luisa , and Velázquez 's portrait of the dwarf Francisco Lezcano ( Fig. 3 ) — in other words , great Spanish artists ' handling of their arrogant , ugly , bizarre or idiotic sitters . |
| 2 | He almost immediately led a breakaway of members into a Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union at a wage of £pound2 a week and made common cause with Alderman " Tommy " Lewis , who had already led a similar breakaway in Southampton to form the British Seafarers ' Union with which Shinwell 's union merged . |
| 3 | Her parents complained about social services ' behaviour during her pregnancy and the birth of her second child . |
| 4 | It was a tall , slender lady that mounted the platform , quite unlike the popular medias ' image of her . |
| 5 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 6 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 7 | For this reason , programmes of teacher education need to recognise and respect individual teachers ' responsibility for their own growth . |
| 8 | Further inland , and only just visible from the southern window was the Old Rectory , set like a Victorian dolls ' house in its large , overgrown garden which , at this distance , looked as neatly green and formal as a municipal park . |
| 9 | As Sinclair points out in his introduction ( p. xix ) , this fact about frequency does not determine the order of appearance of dictionary entries : there is the factor of the native speakers ' sense of what is the core meaning , for example . |
| 10 | On 15 July 1985 I wrote to you in connection with Anglo-Welsh Breweries ' offer for your Company equivalent to 300p per share , which the Board rejected as wholly unacceptable . |
| 11 | Ukrainian peasants ' sense of their ethnic identity was poorly developed . |
| 12 | The outstanding feature of black parents ' relationship with their children 's sport is that it does not exist . |
| 13 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 14 | There was considerable suspicion , for example , of health visitors , deriving from their reputation for criticism of poor mothers ' conduct of their homes and families . |
| 15 | It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) . |
| 16 | the traditional blacksmiths ' chorus to their patron saint , St Clement . |
| 17 | A lot of people suspect that blocking savers ' access to their money violates the new constitution 's explicit ban on compulsory loans to the government . |
| 18 | Feminist psychologists ' confidence in their explanations is good for morale , and sometimes it is tactically necessary . |
| 19 | From 1980 onwards I went on to become involved in the Black Workers ' Group , unions — NALGO and ACTTS — and more recently , the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group in our workplace . |
| 20 | All had volunteered for the study and received two full days ' training before its start . |
| 21 | They know how to behave properly in it , thereby avoiding danger ( for a contrasted view of Malaysian aboriginals ' attitude to their jungle environment , see Robarchek , this volume ) . |
| 22 | Liu Binyan and Su Xiaokang were expelled from the official Chinese Writers ' Association for their " anti-government activities abroad " . |
| 23 | ‘ Usefulness ’ was a key component of the physical scientists ' evaluation of their discipline ; and ‘ usefulness ’ referred to the capacity of the degree to get them a well-paid job . |
| 24 | But the Phoenix King had lent Tyrion the services of a unit of White Lions and these bold warriors ' knowledge of their homeland was to prove invaluable . |
| 25 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 26 | The trips include a great party night called ‘ Cova Rava ’ , a BBQ at La Siesta up in the hills , a beach party , Sixties night , ‘ Wet and wild ’ and of course , the hilarious Reps ' Cabaret plus lots more . |
| 27 | Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] . |
| 28 | WEIGHTLIFTERS Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton have decided not to seek compensation from the British Amateur Weightlifters ' Association for their Olympic drugs ordeal . |
| 29 | THE Government 's watering down of Monopolies and Mergers Commission proposals to weaken big brewers ' grip on their pubs has persuaded Whitbread to drop ideas of selling its breweries . |
| 30 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |