Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But secretly he spent much of his time and most of his clients ' money living the good life in America and Spain . |
| 2 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |
| 3 | We will seek the directors ' approval to contact the short-listed parties and will provide an anonymous one page synopsis of the company for the first approach . |
| 4 | ( Note that a Whitewash is not available where the controlling interest is obtained by means of a purchase connected with a new issue of shares. ) ( 2 ) Sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and a directors ' authority to allot the new shares under CA 1985 , s80 will be required . |
| 5 | It is therefore my opinion that on his findings of fact in the present case , the judge was entitled to hold , as he did , that the defendants ' promise to pay the extra £10,300 was supported by valuable consideration , and thus constituted an enforceable agreement . |
| 6 | He was a member of the archbishops ' committee on industrial problems ( 1917–18 ) , and in 1927 was the two archbishops ' choice to introduce the revised prayer-book measure in the House of Commons . |
| 7 | The unified response of the various police forces during the Miners ' Strike indicates the close level of cooperation between the various forces . |
| 8 | The reformers ' wish to separate the sacred from the profane also led to the repression of many of the popular ballads of the day , which combined a godly lyric with a well-known tune . |
| 9 | On July 20 the government announced support measures for farmers ( following the European Communities ' agreement to reform the common agricultural policy — see p. 38931 ) . |
| 10 | A second factor limiting banks ' ability to expand the total stock of bank deposits is the demand for money . |
| 11 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 12 | On the evening of 14th May , 1974 the Ulster Workers ' Council began the general strike which spread through Northern Ireland and lasted sixteen days . |
| 13 | However that may have been , there is no doubting that at plant level and in two cases ( the Scottish Daily News and KME ) an ideological perception of workers ' control precluded the effective delegation of executive authority to management . |
| 14 | After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook . |
| 15 | Feminists often rely on male psychologists ' work to solve the psychological problems they encounter . |
| 16 | Mellor marched reluctantly into the lions ' den to address the annual charity gala for the Newspaper Press Fund . |
| 17 | But it was no part of the courts ' function to replace the discretionary decision of the public authority with one of its own . |
| 18 | Fixed assets plus net current assets less long-term sources of funding , less shareholders ' equity equals the short-term funding required . |
| 19 | By the early 1980s the ETUC was expressing increasing dissatisfaction at this lack of progress , and the relationship between the employers and trade unions reached its lowest ebb when employers ' opposition ensured the freezing by the Council of the " Vredeling Directive " on worker consultation in 1986 . |
| 20 | It is time that Mr Major let British interest rates be fixed by the needs of our low-inflation recessionary economy , not by the Germans ' need to fight the rising inflation caused by their economic mismanagement . |
| 21 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 22 | But the DTI did not appreciate that the accountants ' study missed the central point of the Department 's inquiry : the auditors were not asked to answer the simple question of whether there was enough money in Barlow Clowes ' coffers to cover the amount owned to investors . |
| 23 | The Local Council , in nineteen hundred and four , had the courtesy to call a rate payers ' meeting to discuss the proposed acquisition of the estate and , with the approval of the meeting , proceeded with their purchase . |
| 24 | Ben Tillett , Tom McCarthy and Tom Mann , general secretary , organizer and president respectively of an enlarged Dockers ' Union became the original strike leaders , with John Burns coming later on to the scene . |
| 25 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 26 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
| 27 | 373 which in granting leave to appeal to your Lordships ' House certified the following questions as involving a point of law of general public importance : |
| 28 | To say that the obligation to " return " the amount of the deposit is " inextricably bound up with " covenants which touch and concern the land … does not , in their Lordships ' view answer the critical question of whether it itself touches and concerns the land . |
| 29 | The meetings attended were : the director 's visit to meet the staff ; an adviser 's initial visit ; three staff meetings ; ten advisers ' feedback sessions ; the governors ' meeting to receive the self-appraisal and the governors ' meeting to receive the final report . |
| 30 | The Governors ' Meeting to Discuss the Final Report . |