Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The limits and possibilities of such bargaining are shown to depend on complex interactions between the actors ' strategies . |
| 3 | The notes about the soldiers ' costumes are scribbled all round the edge of a sketch showing what he wanted . |
| 4 | 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 ; |
| 5 | The pale round blobs of the humans ' faces appeared at the dusty windows of the shed . |
| 6 | Protective monocles were squeezed into the orbits of the combatants ' eyes . |
| 7 | I could print out pictures of the insects ' bodies , but I had lost their genes . |
| 8 | Here the shapes of the characters ' mouths show that they are happy , sad , puzzled or ‘ miffed ’ , a black cloud over the head indicates that the character is feeling defeated or depressed , the lighted electric-bulb over the head indicates that the character has a bright idea , or the exclamation mark over the head shows that the character is amazed . |
| 9 | At the same time he announced that economic austerity measures , including a freeze on public sector promotions , were to be " reconsidered " ; this had also been one of the demands of the workers ' organizations . |
| 10 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 11 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 12 | Also in May the PSL complained at its exclusion ( in favour of candidates from the Citizens ' Committees , Solidarity 's electoral organization ) from state appointments , saying that its continued participation in the Mazowiecki coalition government would depend on a " political equilibrium " being reached . |
| 13 | Any position in the robot 's reach can be described by its two images in the cameras ' fields of view . |
| 14 | The bulk of the deposits appear merely as bookkeeping entries in the banks ' accounts . |
| 15 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 16 | The ABN is a method for the larger firms of accountants to market their own opportunities to the others ' clients and contacts . |
| 17 | And they strain the bank accounts of the students ' parents , some academies costing more than $2,000 per month . |
| 18 | Montague Massengale 's Fragonard ( £14 ) , Henri Loyrette 's Degas : Passion and Intellect ( £6.95 ) and Sylvie Patin 's Monet : the Ultimate Impressionist ( £6.95 ) seem to offer general accounts of the artists ' lives and work . |
| 19 | Are social interactions adequately captured by separate ( albeit simultaneous ) accounts of the partners ' actions , or do we need to describe the interaction between the couple ? |
| 20 | There are also sittings of the Magistrates ' Courts dealing with juveniles . |
| 21 | None of these articles referred to the activities of the Parents ' Rights Group , to the joblessness and homelessness that had caused lesbians and gays to seek support from councils in the first place , to the findings of the Gay Teenage Group survey about the intimidation and isolation of lesbian and gay teenagers in state schools , to the menace of fundamentalism — or to any other feature of our oppression . |
| 22 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 23 | In the control office the top copies of the waiters ' checks from the kitchen or bar , together with the second copies from the cashiers , are checked against charged bills , duplicates of the paid bills and summary sheets to ensure that the pricing is correct and that everything has been charged . |
| 24 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 25 | There was at least something to be said , after all , for a poor-relief system which was adaptable to suit personal need as it arose ; for all the parsimony of parish overseers , careful guardians of the ratepayers ' monies as they were , they were dealing with paupers whom they knew as people . |
| 26 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 27 | Since the casework load at Latchmere is constantly rising and there is a two-week wait for an appointment with the welfare worker , the load can be contained only if common elements of the detainees ' problems can be drawn together . |
| 28 | It incorporates consolidated texts of the Solicitors ' Accounts Rules 1991 and the Accountants ' Report Rules 1991 , together with changes made to the Rules in April 1992 . |
| 29 | When these instructions failed to satisfy local societies and missions , a scheme of sharing the proceeds of the collectors ' efforts was negotiated . |
| 30 | Late one afternoon on my way to the kennels with the dogs ' bowls I passed the lighted kitchen window and stopped because I heard his voice . |