Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roadburg seems to be suggesting that certain characteristics of the British fans ' involvement in the game ( partisanship , segregation , collective identity and pre-match build-up ) give rise to a greater degree of passionate commitment ( and enhanced potential for disorder ) than in the American equivalent . |
| 2 | The authorities said that the shooting began with an attack on military and administrative buildings in the town centre by 1,500 fighters of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 3 | The remaining five seats , allocated for election by minority communities such as Chinese , Europeans and other Pacific islanders , were all filled by candidates of the General Voters ' Party ( until 1990 the General Electors ' Association ) . |
| 4 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation . |
| 5 | FIG. 1 Pre-operative magnetic resonance images of the two infants ' brains ( T2-weighted axial images ) . |
| 6 | Jim Smith 's Second Division outfit are the first non-Division One winners of the Professional Footballers ' Association Fair Play Award . |
| 7 | The demands of the unemployed workers ' movement of the 1930s had an unexpected radicalism , not because people then were more " political " , but because the unemployed were able to make their own measure of an income . |
| 8 | They 'll be searching for a wooden stick with a thistle painted on it , and discussing the minutes of the last Rotarians ' whist drive subcommittee meeting . |
| 9 | The purpose of this attack is to weaken the economy of these [ oil-producing and Islamic ] countries and strengthen the foundations of the industrial countries ' economies . |
| 10 | We 've got five pairs of the new ladies ' red suede Dance trainers from Matchstick , worth £24.99 , to give away — they come in black ( right ) and blue , too . |
| 11 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Meeting held on Saturday , 3rd April 1982 at Quintin School , St. John 's Wood . |
| 12 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin School , St. John 's Wood on Saturday , 27th February 1982 |
| 13 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Meeting that was cancelled on Saturday , 9th January 1982 |
| 14 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Meeting held at Quintin School , St. John 's Wood on Saturday 17 October 1981 |
| 15 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin Kynaston School on Saturday , 10th April 1981 |
| 16 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin School , St John 's Wood on 21.6.80 |
| 17 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Meeting held at Quintin Kynaston School , London on Saturday 18th October 1980 |
| 18 | Notes of the Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin Kynaston School on 27th June 1981 |
| 19 | He seemed to hear the gravelly voice of Cameron-Hyde the one-eyed history master discoursing on the origins of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 20 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 21 | Peasants might share their longing to see the abolition of taxes and noble landownership , but they could make little of the more visionary socialist elements of the young radicals ' propaganda , or indeed of their attacks on the revered Tsar . |
| 22 | " Already " , complained The Seaman after six months of fighting , " the poor people of this country are beginning to feel the effects of the greedy shipowners ' demands . |
| 23 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
| 24 | Moreover , in the month before the budget interest rates had been falling , with reductions of the clearing banks ' base rate in two stages to 13 per cent [ for previous reduction from 15 to 14 per cent in October 1990 see p. 37892 ] and a cut in mortgage lending rates . |
| 25 | Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks . |
| 26 | Bombing raids were made by the Turkish armed forces against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) for about two weeks from Jan. 8 . |
| 27 | Bombing raids against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) were resumed on March 1-2 , 9-11 and 25 . |
| 28 | The nature of UK energy supply and demand by the end of the century is chiefly dependent on the longer-term policy implications of the 1984/5 miners ' strike . |
| 29 | It has already lasted longer than the one two years ago , a tribute to the organisational powers of the independent miners ' union , which unites the various strike committees that sprang up in 1989 . |
| 30 | Rather , not only does Sweden have the widest coverage of collective bargaining for manual and white-collar employees , along with well-developed workplace organisations , but most importantly member firms of the centralised employers ' body support trade union membership and encourage employees to join and remain in the union . |