Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Aft of the pilots ' cockpit was an officers ward room , navigator 's table , two bunks and , further aft again , engineer 's station , wireless operator 's position , bunks for the crew and a baggage compartment .
32 The reason for this is to ensure that all services central to a solicitors ' practice are regulated by the Law society .
33 That , no doubt , was central to the MPs ' reasoning last Monday night .
34 Building up parental confidence in these techniques can sometimes present a problem as they may be contradictory to the parents ' viewpoint .
35 Ultimately , the plaintiffs failed to prove their case because the losses they had suffered were , as a matter of fact , unrelated to the auditors ' report on the 1982 accounts .
36 However , this will not preclude other world faiths from that particular discrete area of the curriculum should their introduction be appropriate to the childrens ' experience or the particular theme , topic or unit of work being studied .
37 This might include continuous assessment of the learner in the clinical area , with the expected level of competence defined in the objectives , appropriate to the learners ' stage of training .
38 Crucial to the Boyds ' plan was the introduction of more American mining techniques to boost production and bring down costs .
39 Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there .
40 On a February day in 1306 Bruce arranged what was apparently meant to be a conciliatory meeting-at the Greyfriars ' monastery church in Dumfries .
41 TWO young sisters died after petrol was poured through a letterbox and set alight during a lovers ' row .
42 In the other case , two neighbours were helping to care for an 88-year-old single woman ; service-providers were not happy with this care and were suspicious about the neighbours ' management of the woman 's finances , so she was also admitted to hospital under a guardianship order .
43 She was thrilled with the suffragettes ' tenacity and the expression it gave to her feelings about being in some kind of sexual trap .
44 This can not be good for the employees ' self-esteem .
45 When the time came , she was similarly firm about the boys ' schooling .
46 I could ask for a trial , but I was not confident of the judges ' honesty .
47 Mrs Scrivener was sharply rebuked , not least by the Commission President , Jacques Delors , and she has been instructed to stand firm against the governments ' proposal today and tell ministers to think again .
48 Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop .
49 As I went round the various sections of work I was so impressed with the students ' enthusiasm and the very high quality of their work .
50 A quiet swear word now serves instead of a punch-up with one of her woods , while she had encouraging finishes such as a fourth equal in the Players ' Championship at Tytherington and a fifth place in the recent Gislaved Ladies ' Open in Sweden .
51 Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies .
52 Either condition is unsatisfactory from the banks ' point of view .
53 They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife .
54 The findings are actually somewhat more encouraging from the Tories ' point of view than they appear on the surface .
55 It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement .
56 Patel then drove from his Johannesburg home to Pretoria prior to the Wallabies ' departure for Port Elizabeth to try and rescue the tour .
57 But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths .
58 Thank you for your enquiry yesterday regarding a representative from the Social Work Department being present at the Tenants ' Association meeting on Monday 30 August 1993 at St John Vianney School .
59 In ‘ Crumble Hall ’ Urs'la addresses Roger who is sprawled unconscious across the servants ' table in a speech reminiscent of Gay 's ‘ Tuesday ’ eclogue :
60 The assessors were impressed by the governors ' sub-committee and staff task group at Egglescliffe School which make efforts to involve the community in the school .
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