Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 Outside on the veranda , where the eaves are supported by pillars crowned with carved wooden rams ' heads and the real skulls and horns of sacrificed rams and he-goats , two men are kneading the dough for puris , pummelling the flour of every household in the village .
2 Doing covers of er old Rolling Stones ' tunes and
3 Within the last ten years , I 've been ten years activ actively concerned with the old aged pensioners ' association and er the Labour movement .
4 The opposition responded with calls for the conference to be chaired by the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the Roman Catholic Bishops ' Conference and archbishop of Kisangani , in place of Isaac Kalonji Mutambaye , regarded as discredited by his loyalty to Mobutu .
5 Among the local peculiarities which needed to be swept away , the most important was the array of outlandish local saints ' days and festivals in the Canterbury calendar .
6 As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party .
7 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 .
8 No weapons were to be seen but a good many shepherds ' crooks and plenty of rough sticks cut from birch or alder .
9 Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness .
10 Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning .
11 Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour .
12 Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will turn to time and time again .
13 Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will want to return to time and time again .
14 My father was due four months ' leave and this they spent at Beachley , his attractive house near Chepstow at the mouth of the Severn .
15 Citrine — sometimes with Self and Area Board chairmen , sometimes with other nationalised industries ' chairmen and sometimes alone — had irregular unminuted meetings with the Minister of Fuel and Power ( and sometimes with other senior Ministers ) at which they hammered out compromises on the more difficult policy questions .
16 His workshop is in Lotts Road , Chelsea and is an Aladdin 's cave ; trays of coloured gemstones , yards of sequins , buttons , beads , feathers and fans , gleaming armour , golden Egyptian mummies ' masks and much more are crammed with ordered chaos into the small rooms housing several staff , all happily hammering , stitching and gluing .
17 By the late 1960s 56 per cent of managerial and 52 per cent of other non-manual workers ' wives then used reliable methods of contraception , while only 45 per cent of skilled manual workers ' wives and 38 per cent of other manual workers ' wives did so .
18 Mr Dowding is a leading official in the local National Farmers ' Union and is aware of the risks involved in throwing away the drugs and chemicals .
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