Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workhouse visiting committees composed of middle class ladies tried to place unmarried mothers as domestic servants and increasingly strove to keep mother and child together , but , as Mrs Hardie of the Manchester Ladies ' Health Society commented , their task was difficult : a mistress usually feared the presence of a young woman of immoral character in her family . |
| 2 | Monica Seles , the only person from the former Yugoslavia whose name does n't evoke instant sympathy , was reduced to blessed silence when losing to Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon ladies ' final . |
| 3 | As we go to press , there has been no satisfactory explanation as to the withdrawal of the number one seed Monica Seles from the Wimbledon Women 's Singles at the last moment . |
| 4 | Mrs Rosemary Cubitt of the Ovens Women 's Action Group said ‘ Our demonstration is more to alert public opinion than to block the entrance . |
| 5 | The National Union of Mineworkers says it had expected the news but Trevor of the pit deputies ' union NACODS had this message for miners . |
| 6 | An interlude of social peace had been forged of which Jack Jones of the Transport Workers ' Union was the architect . |
| 7 | England defender Pallister was then handed the responsibility of keeping United in continental competition but , just as they had failed in a penalty shoot-out against Videoton in the Cup Winners ' Cup in 1985 , so they were again to be engulfed in misery . |
| 8 | He wo n't say anything about their financial affairs , although between the lines I detected a certain amount of mirth that Mel of the Mars Bars ' custom has gone elsewhere . |
| 9 | The Ballylumford workers eventually invited Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council , Dr. Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party and Ernest Baird of the United Ulster Unionist Party to meet them . |
| 10 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 11 | ( Members of the No. 6 Branch had previously visited the US Ambassador to reassure him following protests against Raybestos outside the American Embassy in Dublin by the Ovens Women 's Group . ) |