Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It threshed this way and that , as the giant tried , uselessly , to pull free of the Trees ' cruel grip . |
| 2 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
| 3 | We were particularly interested in the practices ' subjective assessments of the impact of this change on practice management and patient care . |
| 4 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 5 | I always felt that it was typical of the Quakers ' practical Christianity to allow their building to be so used . |
| 6 | Either way , the position of women reflected by the dowry system was consistent with the Asians ' new petit-bourgeois role in East Africa . |
| 7 | An RFL is subject to the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal , including its power to fine the RFL , to strike the name of the RFL off the register or to suspend his or her registration . |
| 8 | The Palm Court fountains are pyramid-shaped , following Smith 's preoccupation with the Egyptian theme that he believes appropriate to the Victorians ' far horizons . |
| 9 | Initially flattering for the recognition it brought , the vast and continuous bundles of fan request mail eventually proved intrusive to the artists ' private lives as their characters entered public domain . |
| 10 | Gynaecologists , however , will be dismayed at the authors ' apparent lack of understanding of the management of a common medical complaint . |
| 11 | The crowd is delighted by the gods ' high spirits and pleasure in the dance . |
| 12 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 13 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |
| 14 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 15 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
| 16 | B C R executive , Hamish , is sceptical about the banks ' sudden endorsement of angels . |
| 17 | Knight Williams is responsible for the trusts ' overall investment strategy , while specialist fund managers ( Mercury , Schroder , Barings , James Capel , GT , Perpetual , SGTR and Whittingale ) are in charge of day-to-day management . |
| 18 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
| 19 | However , in other situations Customs have deemed that there is a non-monetary consideration in addition to the price paid and that VAT is therefore due on the goods ' normal selling price . |
| 20 | Phrases such as ‘ the ‘ boyo' body-language kept breaking through ’ are reminiscent of the tabloids ' anti-Welsh campaign against Kinnock , and it is deplorable that a once-eminent socialist writer should use them . |
| 21 | The Committee was generally critical of the universities ' past role , and clearly hoped that the CNAA might be persuaded to take on what might prove to be a very substantial validating function . |
| 22 | Since bureaucracy can not be smashed or dispensed with , contrary to the Marxists ' utopian claims , it is essential to provide dynamic , indeed charismatic , political leadership to supervise the bureaucratic machine . |
| 23 | Moreover , he was becoming increasingly annoyed at the Communists ' blatant attempts to maximize their influence wherever it mattered — in , for example , the army and the administration — and to dictate strategy . |
| 24 | The audience is blithely unconcerned as the rats ' rancid pink tongues stretch out to lick gently at pink heels . |
| 25 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 26 | Robert Naish must have been disappointed at the members ' Extraordinary General Meeting on June 5th when his three-part motion failed to get the necessary 2:1 majority ( For 125 , Against 103 ) . |
| 27 | When the North American Indians gave fresh cranberries as a gift to the Pilgrim families , it 's unlikely that they were aware of the berries ' peculiar talent — they can bounce ! |
| 28 | Their economy and population were both suffering , but also they were becoming wary of the Dzhungars ' increasing strength . |