Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A limited poisoning campaign is being used against rats , especially during the Hawaiian petrels ' breeding season , when the birds are particularly vulnerable . |
| 2 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 3 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 4 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 5 | And er , I would like to propose that this Committee , together with the National Farmers ' Union and Country Ploughmens ' Association sends a delegation to London to meet with the Minister to discuss these issues and other , our concerns . |
| 6 | Will my right hon. Friend arrange an early debate on education , and especially on the local authorities ' responsibilities and their relationship with Government in terms of school organisation , so that I may highlight the need for an early decision on proposals to reorganise schools in Ealing , where parents , teachers and children will be greatly affected by those decisions ? |
| 7 | Bankruptcies , especially among the big firms ' small suppliers , are at a record . |
| 8 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 9 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |
| 10 | Recommended as best of the classy kids ' shows : The Red Balloon , Albert Lamorisse 's Fifties French fable of a small boy and his big red friend , adapted and stylishly staged by Anthony Clark at Contact Theatre in Manchester for primary school age . |
| 11 | Moult had attended the School between 1928 and 1934 , and had maintained his connection thereafter through the Old Stopfordians ' Association . |
| 12 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 13 | I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited . |
| 14 | They 've marched straight into the vestal virgins ' changing tent . |
| 15 | Also on the visiting critics ' itinerary were such exotica as a barbecue dinner and a visit to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ; your correspondent , a native Texan , had not been to the rodeo since 1961 , when he shook Roy Rogers 's hand , but none the less did not feel compelled to spice up this report with such familiar Texas seasoning . |
| 16 | I had thought where we were lodging , so far from the wealthy industrialists ' villas and mansions , to be humble enough , but these … |
| 17 | Detecting a weakening of international resolve on sanctions , Mandela responded angrily to the Western countries ' positions . |
| 18 | Similarly , if you are lagging behind at the 30 seconds ' bell , it is not too late for you to win the bout . |
| 19 | Aid supplied by the OECD countries ( and capital-rich oil exporters ) although amounting to about $33bil per annum in the early 1980s ( approximately 0.36 per cent of OECD 's GNP ) was well below the United Nations ' target figure of 0.7 per cent of GNP . |
| 20 | It was a tall , slender lady that mounted the platform , quite unlike the popular medias ' image of her . |
| 21 | It may be noted that socio-economic conditions of parents ( as assessed by the father 's or the breadwinner 's occupation ) also play a role in the incidence of low birth weight ; it is the highest among the offspring of non-agricultural manual workers , lower among those whose father works in agriculture and lowest in the non-manual workers ' stratum . |
| 22 | She said sometimes to the other students ' wives , ‘ I married the man , not the job . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 24 | He paused and added , ‘ If anyone took them , they must have been clever — there are no fingerprints to be found , apart from the two nurses ' . ’ |
| 25 | Alongside Brüggen , the 84-year-old Toscanini seems positively accommodating ; though it should be added that , apart from the two conductors ' fondness for quick tempos , their approaches are radically different , with Toscanini 's string players allowed to draw on a singing legato style that is generally denied Brüggen 's period instrumentalists . |
| 26 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 27 | The necessity of a penetrating aufarbeitung der Geschichte , or coming to terms with the past , is nowhere on the young democracies ' agendas . |
| 28 | It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . |
| 29 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 30 | Ross started the first ever Bitches Rodeo in 1988 and Lesley followed the next year , paddling poorly in the small ladies ' competition but meeting up with her now great friend and rival , Mandy Castle . |