Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact that the machines made by Amstrad had other legitimate uses , such as making copies of the purchasers ' own music or of works not protected by copyright , was important , even though it was obvious that the largest use would involve copyright infringement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bourges was a community in a vital sense , bound by rules of the inhabitants ' own making . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Any one such focal place would thus have only one function , rather than the range of functions of the geographers ' central place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In its treatment of matrimonial conveyancing , this book is not concerned with the merits of the spouses ' respective claims nor with the proceedings in connection with those claims . |
| 15 | When in 1913 Alison Neilans of the Ladies ' National Association announced that ‘ we and our former antagonists can work cordially together ’ , Wilson explained that the olive branch was a result of the change of heart among medics and their new expansive definition of health . |
| 16 | One of Minton 's lithographs , Jamaica , was printed under the auspices of the Artists ' International Association and sold at four guineas , with discount for schools and institutions . |
| 17 | But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the specific problems and prospects of the churches ' own media need to be studied in greater depth . |
| 19 | When the Linfield manager gets a telephone call from Windsor Park tonight it will provide details of the Blues ' first domestic defeat in the season — and their worst performance to date . |
| 20 | That kind of action is defensible or not in terms of the students ' civil rights , and in terms of the constraints such activities present to the civil rights of the general public . |
| 21 | Since they can not be planned in terms of the students ' likely destinations , they must have some other kind of rationale or logic . |
| 22 | Second the fact that God 's personal self-disclosure in the Bible was given in terms of the hearers ' own culture inevitably means that misunderstanding may arise and points be missed when read by people of another culture who are unfamiliar with the cultural milieu of the Bible . |
| 23 | Jane explained the difference in terms of the schools ' differing perceptions of her ability : |
| 24 | All members will have vivid recollections of the Banks ' huge publicity campaign , between January and May last year , attempting to sell Extended Opening Hours to both the Public and our members and the guarantees which accompanied this publicity . |
| 25 | Contexts involve characters of the pupils ' own ages and subjects which are relevant to their lives . |
| 26 | Within the limits of the canons ' active pastoral life , Chrodegang stressed the communal liturgy . |
| 27 | They make forecasts of the results of the firms ' past and present investment activities . |
| 28 | The results of the banks ' self-imposed credit rationing , and of the mounting creditor distress , are beginning to show in the leap in outstanding commercial paper issued by non-financial companies . |
| 29 | The causes of the unions ' fading influence are complex , but one of the most potent has undoubtedly been the participatory methods adopted by American managers in imitation of Japanese practice . |
| 30 | These claims are made in the context of attempts to justify expenditure on western education systems and to represent the ideals of the writers ' own culture as ‘ universal ’ . |