Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority appealed and the clerk to the justices subsequently sent to the court extended reasons for the justices ' decision . |
| 2 | Of particular significance and far-reaching consequence to the lives of women was the exilic legislators ' obsession with ritual cleanness — and in order to understand the full import of this statement , I shall momentarily have to digress from our historical outline and spend a little time analysing the reasons for the legislators ' obsession and its impact . |
| 3 | the main , or one of the main , reasons for the business ' structure was to avoid registration ( not , say , due to the partial exemption rules or to get limited liability protection or facilitate a part sale ) ; |
| 4 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
| 5 | The limits and possibilities of such bargaining are shown to depend on complex interactions between the actors ' strategies . |
| 6 | ( Giscard d'Estaing had already warned the Palace about the Romanians ' insatiable pilfering during their recent stay in France , but Palace officials remain discreet about any misdemeanours during the Ceauşescus ' visit . ) |
| 7 | The notes about the soldiers ' costumes are scribbled all round the edge of a sketch showing what he wanted . |
| 8 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
| 9 | Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year . |
| 10 | John Major juggled a pledge to privatise the rail and coal industries with plans for a citizens ' charter to guarantee public services . |
| 11 | The ARFU indicated in 1990 their intention to play South Africa when announcing details of the proposed 1992 and 1993 incoming Springbok tours and plans for the Wallabies ' deviation to South Africa en route to the tour of Ireland and Wales . |
| 12 | The Italian capital was experiencing , even by its own standards , a heatwave , and the two hotels that were provided by the authorities as the Athletes ' Village were of a mediocre calibre . |
| 13 | A new telephone hotline will be established by York City Council to deal with parking problems in the Barbican area under new revised proposals for a residents ' parking scheme . |
| 14 | To the general invalidity of infants ' contracts the Common Law recognized the exceptions of contracts for necessaries and contracts for the infants ' benefit , and these exceptions are not affected by statute . |
| 15 | The CRL 's main task is testing products for the Consumers ' Association , publisher of Which ? magazine . |
| 16 | Although he had no doubts about the Girls ' standard of work he would only take up on Smith 's offer if his organization was efficient . |
| 17 | The BEA engineers , in consultation with the boiler-makers , initially concentrated on alternative options for improving boiler reliability , and they had serious doubts about the manufacturers ' capacity to make reliable unit boilers with the higher postwar steam conditions , though gradually these were adopted after 1952 . |
| 18 | Bobbio , like Schumpeter and Dahl , wishes to retain the competitive model of different parties for the peoples ' vote . |
| 19 | All of these findings remained broadly similar irrespective of whether we analysed total warmth towards parties and party leaders , total ratings for the parties ' performance on issues , or total inclinations towards voting for all three leading parties ( Table 8.8 ) . |
| 20 | Must buy calendars for the kids ' work . |
| 21 | There are certainly general characteristics of the parties ' approach to social policies that may help people to decide between them ; and at particular elections ( such as , for example , the general election of 1945 ) one 's social policy commitments may be particularly clear . |
| 22 | It is intended to approach this by studying : — their patenting activity by means of patents granted to them in the United States in the past 25 years ; this will indicate the areas where the industries/economies of each country — and their research/innovative activity appears to be strongest ; — the adoption of the selected major postwar innovations and their diffusion in the industries of each of the countries covered ; — their performance in ‘ high-technology ’ areas ; — certain indicators of the countries ' energy economics ; — and possibly assess their productivity level in comparison with some West European countries ; Economic research institutes in Sofia , Prague , Budapest and Warsaw will cooperate by providing — where necessary — the technical and statistical information required . |
| 23 | Certain information relating to each of the properties , including details of title and the results of recent local authority searches , available for inspection at the offices of the vendors ' solicitors ; |
| 24 | The pale round blobs of the humans ' faces appeared at the dusty windows of the shed . |
| 25 | Protective monocles were squeezed into the orbits of the combatants ' eyes . |
| 26 | Former servants of Edward IV , and of the queen herself , were among the beneficiaries of the Woodvilles ' disgrace . |
| 27 | Former servants of Edward IV , and of the queen herself , were among the beneficiaries of the Woodvilles ' disgrace . |
| 28 | A gasp of delight escaped her lips as instantly the gardens assumed a new and spellbinding dimension : thousands of light bulbs springing to life , outlining domes and minarets , and other graceful exotic images of the architects ' imagination . |
| 29 | Although there had been no evidence on their computers of the shapechangers ' craft being on the planet , it had been monitored heading towards this unwelcoming world . |
| 30 | But , at the same time , several aspects of the Newmanites ' campaign make them a uniquely threatening phenomenon on the political scene . |