Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It relates to the reasons given for the justices ' decision . |
| 2 | Last night however , crowds gathered round the workers ' militia standing by their trucks , trying to include them — sometimes successfully — in conversations about the need for change . |
| 3 | Certain changes in the rules contained in the Nurses ' , Mid-wives ' and Health Visitor 's Act ( 1979 ) are needed to make updating a legal requirement , and these must be put before Parliament as with any law reform . |
| 4 | 200 walks organised by The Ramblers ' Association to be held all over England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 5 | The nature of the formal shapes made by the dancers ' bodies and limbs as they move into and hold a picture must be evaluated . |
| 6 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 7 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 8 | In schools belonging to the Girls ' Schools Association , the average annual fees were 6300 for boarders , and 3300 for day pupils ( ISIS , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | The authors point to the lawyers ' success in reproducing for themselves the conditions of private practice and its implications for other departments and for the workings of local democracy . |
| 10 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 11 | Other labels derive from words taken from the foreigners ' own language . |
| 12 | Table 6.3 provides rather more useful information on the subject area(s) covered by the students ' research , as identified by the students themselves . |
| 13 | Armando Guebuza , the leader of the government delegation , as being designed to give the MNR time to consider proposals made by the talks ' mediators . |
| 14 | It comprises elements from both modern and classical techniques ensuring that the lines and patterns made by the dancers ' bodies are more expressively stretched and angled and less rounded than usual , because so much is danced with tense emotion . |
| 15 | In 1989 their parents asked for the twins ' photograph to be published in a Sunday newspaper and vowed that they would never be locked away in an institution . |
| 16 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
| 17 | These two articles look at the banks ' problems |
| 18 | Spectators said the Prince , playing for his Maple Leafs team at the Guards ' Polo Club at Smith 's Lawn in Windsor Great Park , seemed to wrench his back during the middle of the second chukka of the game . |
| 19 | The Prince aggravated an old back injury during a game of polo for his Maple Leafs team at the Guards ' Polo Club at Smith 's Lawn in Windsor Great Park yesterday . |
| 20 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 21 | They had found three of the four sacks of potatoes stolen in the gipsies ' camp on Rickling Heath , and one bag of oats , but no trace of the pony . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe has begun an experimental scheme to track its remaining rhino by the use of transponders implanted in the animals ' skin . |
| 23 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 24 | Efforts were made to keep the communities informed of the studies ' purposes , and of any new developments , through meetings open to all community members , and by announcements at market places . |
| 25 | Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that the following statements made in the directors ' report are unreasonable in all the circumstances : |
| 26 | In addition to the listing of pigments and common pigment names used in all painting since antiquity ( a useful resource for artists and restorers ) , there is also a detailed description of all the colours used by the artists ' materials industry today , including the new organic synthetic pigments . |
| 27 | The Labour group , currently with 25 seats compared to the Tories ' 57 , believes it needs another 25 to gain control — depending on how well or badly the Liberal Democrats fare . |
| 28 | Reversal of hypotension with intravenous therapy leads to positive fluid balance and weight gain as the administered fluids leak into the patients ' tissues . |
| 29 | John Jevons , Clwyd 's social services director , says in a report to councillors today that a plan would be thrashed out to best meet the needs of individuals based on the residents ' reaction . |
| 30 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |