Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the payment of premiums creates a pool of funds at the companies ' disposal , awaiting claims to be made against it . |
2 | Everyone and his Long Tall Aunt Sally came to the party and got driven to their executive lunches in fancy cars at the Beatles ' expense . |
3 | During one of Seb 's evening drinking sessions at the navvies ' camp he told Jacob that Anna was to marry someone else . |
4 | The prince 's remarks follow massive public anxiety over the Duchess of York 's jetsetting antics at the taxpayers ' expense . |
5 | In particular their student team 's victory over New Zealand Universities at the Students ' World Cup in France in 1988 announced their birth as a rugby nation . |
6 | Nearly 60 guests at the Seniors ' Party organised by Lydham , More & Snead W I for those in the parishes and former residents were delighted to welcome Ken Lucas to their tea-party in September . |
7 | The Mellors and their two young sons became regular guests at the Garrads ' home at Frinton-on-Sea , Essex . |
8 | Incredibly , only three of the Fijian party on duty — naturally , including Serevi — travel to the colony for this weekend 's tournament , indicative of the phenomenal sevens resources at the islanders ' disposal . |
9 | Incredibly , only three of the Fijian party on duty — naturally , including Serevi — travel to the colony for this weekend 's tournament , indicative of the phenomenal sevens resources at the islanders ' disposal . |
10 | Had they been set free any nearer they would almost certainly have found their way back for a free meal of milk and green bananas at the orang-utans ' tea party . |
11 | And customers at the Hutchinsons ' shop have contributed more than £200 in loose change thrown into a collecting bucket on the counter . |
12 | This can be done with one of the most attractive arguments at the teachers ' disposal , students ' work ; a contrast can be made with the kind of work which students undertook in the 1960s and 1970s , an example of which is included in Figure 1.2 . |
13 | BOOS AT THE BREWERS ' EXPENSE |
14 | In Hunan on the night of 8 October , students marched to the provincial party headquarters to register their complaints about the handling of the elections at the Teachers ' College . |
15 | Computer awareness courses at the teachers ' centres , the local authority are running them , erm there are user groups in Brighton and the , the area for , for such erm teachers and the University as you say runs courses with the Department of Education and Science erm to help primary and secondary teachers . |
16 | Lamps lighting the desks at the nurses ' station were the brightest things in this open central space , and one of the lamps was catching Tom 's hair in its light , giving the short locks a golden glow like a halo , and bringing his commanding profile into sharp focus . |
17 | Ms Streisand , in the same paper , claimed that the press would be happier if she spent her free time shopping , and pointed out , quite fairly , that she and the others at the correspondents ' dinner had been invited there . |
18 | They thus obtain status and other ‘ psychological ’ benefits at the shareholders ' expense , and increase their rewards from office in a more tax-efficient way than through regular remuneration . |
19 | It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended . |
20 | The government admitted only four killed and 18 arrested and claimed to have discovered arms caches at the victims ' homes . |
21 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
22 | The market for control may be seen from this perspective , therefore , as having a negative side-effect in so far as it gives shareholders an opportunity to make unfair gains at the employees ' expense . |
23 | But colleagues at the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital recall unpleasant happenings at the nurses ' home which they shared with Allitt . |
24 | Another way of putting it , and this may be the section 's true significance , is that the section provides the directors with a defence in the event of their making a decision that favours the employees at the shareholders ' expense . |
25 | Seb spent many of the long winter evenings at the Hankses ' cottage and his reading and writing improved so much that Carrie was reluctantly forced to admit there was little more she could teach him in these two spheres of learning . |