Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | The villagers turned at the riders ' approach . |
| 32 | However , on 12 September 1836 a number of practitioners met at the Freemasons ' tavern , and decided to unite practitioners and students in a new association . |
| 33 | The combination of the narrator 's voice with features associated with the characters ' thought patterns may be compared to the use of free indirect thought in fictions in which the " voices ' of narrator and characters are blended , sometimes almost inextricably . |
| 34 | The arguments deployed against the reformers ' case are varied . |
| 35 | Two thirds of the suspended sentences imposed by the Magistrates ' courts were for up to three months . |
| 36 | In our sample we had details of only eight Blacks , five Asians and 43 Whites sentenced in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 37 | The councillors agreed to the mothers ' request to meet education officials to try to speed this up . |
| 38 | She has also pleaded not guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice and to charges brought under the Companies ' Act . |
| 39 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 40 | The day before , in the same city , Los Angeles , a four-hour battle between 300 police and 12 members of the Black Panthers ended with the Panthers ' surrender . |
| 41 | These birds may be seen taking their specially prepared foods from raised feeding trays and nectar tubes arranged near the visitors ' viewing path . |
| 42 | The plaintiffs relied upon the defendants ' report and as a result lost some £17 000 in monies owed by E on advertising contracts when E went into liquidation . |
| 43 | He wears pink rubber gloves , their tops stretched over the overalls ' cuffs . |
| 44 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 45 | Bonuses , rebates , and discounts related to the buyers ' past purchases from the supplier have also been frowned upon by the authorities . |
| 46 | On March 1 thousands of Niamey residents demonstrated against the soldiers ' actions . |
| 47 | From the moment you accept a place at the University of Edinburgh you begin to benefit from the extensive range of services provided by the Students ' Association . |
| 48 | The carts to carry away the corpses went round the streets announced by the drivers ' bells and the cry , ‘ Bring out your dead ’ . |
| 49 | Three of the 700 drawings stored in the Dolls ' House . |
| 50 | Between them they are responsible for handling 95 per cent of the criminal cases tried in the country though a few who are convicted in this way ( just over 4,000 in 1999 , which is 1.6 per cent of all indictable offenders convicted in the magistrates ' courts ) are committed to the Crown Court for sentence . |
| 51 | They need to know how their standards compare with those of other providers but in ways which are less traditional and restricted than through the five key documents required by The Parents ' Charter ( DES 1991b:2 — 7 ) . |
| 52 | Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair . |
| 53 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 54 | Opinion polls taken before the bishops ' caution show Herri Batasuna — some of whose candidates are serving long prison sentences for terrorism - winning up to five seats in Cortes , the Spanish parliament . |
| 55 | Among the more important requirements are : the demonstration of management skills and financial viability ; commitment to equal opportunities policies ; the provision of full information to tenants and the Corporation ; an agreement to retain dwellings acquired as a Tenants ' Choice landlord for letting at rents within the reach of those in low-paid employment ; compliance with the terms of the Housing Corporation 's guidance on the management of Tenants ' Choice dwellings . |