Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basil 's Notes for a Teachers ' In-Service Course at Hoyland Teachers ' Centre February 1953 |
| 2 | The reasons for the gilts ' good performance since the election are the feelings among investors that the Conservatives are determined to keep inflation low and also that they are more likely to control government spending . |
| 3 | Lastly , the sad record of colonialism in the far north-east includes the name of the Aleuts , who were largely annihilated by the Russians during the latters ' trans-Pacific adventure in pursuit of sea-otter furs . |
| 4 | The Giants ' starting pitcher , Rick Reuschel , was driven from the game after only 18 pitches as the Cubs ' lead-off man , Jerome Walton , had two first-inning hits and Mark Grace three hits and four runs batted in . |
| 5 | Neath MP Hain believes there will be more urgent demands for the Springboks ' four-match tour to be axed if the violence in South Africa continues . |
| 6 | In order to examine phases two and three , we needed to investigate the roles of the companies ' corporate planning departments in the total planning process . |
| 7 | Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids ' top ten of moral panics . |
| 8 | CONFIDENCE in the New Zealand camp , following their yacht 's performances in the challengers ' semi-final races of the American Cup trials off San Deigo , is not at its highest . |
| 9 | Stoddard Mercia 's expertise in weaving special designs to the customers ' exact requirements was a major factor in obtaining the Country Court order . |
| 10 | A year earlier he witnessed the Sex Pistols debacle at the Lesser Free Trade Hall , Manchester , a legendary bombastic event bludgeoned into rock history books by the Pistols ' typical blind arrogance and contrived but destructive chaos . |
| 11 | Also , the size of union membership is an important consideration in its own right since it is one of the main indices of the unions ' industrial power . |
| 12 | Thus a detailed criticism in " The Observer " of the activities of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party was justified , despite proof that some allegations were untrue : the jury found that the inaccuracies could not " materially injure " plaintiffs who had been depicted in an otherwise truthful light . |
| 13 | The annual meetings of the churches ' central bodies are a forum for religious political debate and have been known to express tensions between the values of the majority Northern and minority Southern protestants . |
| 14 | Two separate network indices are used to measure the changing patterns of the migrants ' social relationships ; the first is the integration index and the second the urbanization index . |
| 15 | Where the louvred cowls has survived , glazing had to be added internally in order to present wind-blown rain from entering the vents , and efforts were made to waterproof the sloping brick surfaces of the roundels ' conical roofs by coating them with bitumen . |
| 16 | Yellow Victorian mansions , with their front gardens asphalted over to make yellow parking areas for the flatholders ' yellow cars . |
| 17 | Any one such focal place would thus have only one function , rather than the range of functions of the geographers ' central place . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But these uncertainties maintain subjective , ‘ feminine ’ elements alongside the methods ' hard objectivity . |
| 20 | It is the outcome of a process which , for Harkabi , has its origins in the Israelis ' overwhelming , intoxicating victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 21 | The lexical items marked by the informants can be seen as the linguistic realisations of elements in the readers ' constructed text-worlds , which are used isomorphically to perceive the coherence of the reading . |
| 22 | The union side at this level is composed of senior officers and lay negotiators from the unions ' national executive committees . |
| 23 | Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks . |
| 24 | The idea is that the court should give only very cursory consideration to the applicant 's case at the leave stage , and that leave proceedings should not be used as a surrogate for a full hearing in order to test the strengths and weaknesses of the parties ' respective cases as an aid to settlement out-of-court . |
| 25 | Another avenue of enjoyable information-seeking — sadly , not as well-known and patronized as it deserves to be — is the programme of private gardens opened in aid of various charities like the Gardeners ' Benevolent Fund , from whom you can obtain a county-by-county week-by-week guide giving details of location , times of opening and points of interest . |
| 26 | I sought out and consulted separately with three of the sleeping-car attendants in the racegoers ' sleeping cars who frowned in turn and said that first , the sort of jacket I was describing was worn by thousands , and second , everyone tended to look gaunt outside in the cold air . |
| 27 | The pressure of legal penalties , not only against pagans but eventually also against heretics , schismatics , and Jews , no doubt had a part to play ; but to judge by the extent to which Christian mobs could get their way without restraint years before the emperors ' coercive legislation , enacted in the years after 390 , it was no more than a minor part . |
| 28 | We have just heard that Bob Miller [ currently number one is the Chief Executive 's award scheme ] , has gained further business to provide plants to the surveyors ' temporary offices . |
| 29 | There was no longer anywhere for me to hide , and I knew I would be cut to pieces by the giants ' sharp knives . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the school aped the traditions of the boys ' public schools , encouraging competitiveness and aggressiveness within a rigidly hierarchical structure which depended on eccentric but unbreakable rules . |