Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids ' top ten of moral panics .
2 CONFIDENCE in the New Zealand camp , following their yacht 's performances in the challengers ' semi-final races of the American Cup trials off San Deigo , is not at its highest .
3 Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger .
4 It is the outcome of a process which , for Harkabi , has its origins in the Israelis ' overwhelming , intoxicating victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war .
5 The lexical items marked by the informants can be seen as the linguistic realisations of elements in the readers ' constructed text-worlds , which are used isomorphically to perceive the coherence of the reading .
6 Export factoring has been held back by gaps in the companies ' international networks .
7 I sought out and consulted separately with three of the sleeping-car attendants in the racegoers ' sleeping cars who frowned in turn and said that first , the sort of jacket I was describing was worn by thousands , and second , everyone tended to look gaunt outside in the cold air .
8 There were no significant changes in the employees ' substantive terms and conditions , except in relation to union recognition .
9 There were no significant changes in the patients ' mean weight and serum creatinine and sodium concentrations throughout the trial .
10 Beanpole striker Andy Smith has emerged as one of the key figures in the Diamonds ' recent revival .
11 England youth squad member Lee Dalzell ( GatesheadWhickham ) clearly heads the qualifiers in the girls ' 15 years 100m breaststroke .
12 The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do .
13 If you are keeping ants ( Chapter 12 ) , put a stem or leaf bearing aphids in the ants ' feeding compartment .
14 ‘ Declare : ( 1 ) That on the taking of the accounts and inquiry order to be made and taken herein by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 the plaintiffs are entitled to raise objection to items in the defendants ' said accounts on the grounds that the items were and are unreasonable in amount but so that any doubts are to be resolved in favour of the defendants .
15 In turn , I subsequently followed up some of the issues raised in the job interviews in the teachers ' day-to-day work .
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