Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " 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 The engine ran successfully non-stop from Tywyn to Nant Gwernol with a TRPS members ' special before it was taken out of traffic .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence .
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