Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency . |
| 32 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 33 | Before there could be any school in Stockport , it was first necessary for the executors to purchase property which could then be legally transferred to the Goldsmiths ' Company . |
| 34 | Bookings were typically made through the visitors ' secretaries : agency bookings were infrequent and no use was made of reservation systems , either local or national . |
| 35 | The catcalls from the crowd had now intensified at the executioners ' bungling of their job . |
| 36 | And the already intolerable misery of the attackers was now exacerbated by the Germans ' increased use of mustard gas . |
| 37 | Without going as far as The Unfortunates , the forms of all the novels mentioned introduce a comparable questioning of conventional patterns and expectations , often heightened by the novelists ' explicit commentary on their own activity . |
| 38 | Thirty thousand people now worked for the brothers ' resource companies in addition to the many thousands they employed in the construction of their property . |
| 39 | The liability of an occupier towards a trespasser is now covered by the Occupiers ' Liability Act 1984 . |
| 40 | Such people are now covered by the Occupiers ' Liability Act 1984 , s. 1(1) ( a ) and will be owed a duty of care under that Act . |
| 41 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 42 | Once more Italy is faced with parliamentary chaos , but Italians are well versed in the Neapolitans ' skill in the choreography of ‘ order in disorder ’ . |
| 43 | Industrial relations and collective bargaining in BR and RENFE have been profoundly conditioned by the railways ' status as a major state-controlled public service . |
| 44 | In this latter meaning , ‘ the freedom of labour ’ was already partially overcome by the workers ' organisations in the capitalist period , when the trade unions partly abolished competition between workers by uniting them and making them stronger in their struggle against the capitalist class … |
| 45 | [ The Faroese has earlier appealed to Greenpeace — which had strongly campaigned against the islanders ' traditional whale-hunt — for help in countering pollution which they claimed were making the whales inedible — see ED 49/50 . ] |
| 46 | Most of them are of the lancet type particularly associated with the commissioners ' buildings and many — for example , Christ Church , Meadow Lane , Leeds ( 1823–6 , demolished ) and Honley near Huddersfield ( 1842–3 ) — had thin arcade piers of cast iron ; but Chantrell was a serious student of Gothic . |
| 47 | The ghetto effect of these areas was plainly stated in the Commissioners ' report . |
| 48 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 49 | Yet the memoirs of these survivors , their dirge , is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers ' sentimental journeys . |
| 50 | Maximum cash amounts are then withdrawn from the customers ' accounts . |
| 51 | The authorities , hoping to contain the situation , appeared almost paralysed by the students ' actions . |
| 52 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 53 | The deminutive Mother Teresa was almost drowned by the students ' welcome . |
| 54 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 55 | The runners found themselves unfairly rebuked for the market-makers ' errors , and for their whimsical misquotes or bid-only quotes that could ruin a deal . |
| 56 | The resulting courses were spread over eighteen three-quarter-hour or twelve one-hour periods ; they began with an introductory review of the college library , its purpose , stock , arrangement and services , including standard reference books , and then proceeded through the detailed study of a specialist literature , in a field closely integrated with the students ' own subject courses . |
| 57 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 58 | In 1875 he was awarded an exhibition in physical science newly created by the Clothworkers ' Company ; in the following year he was awarded an entrance scholarship at Christ 's College , Cambridge . |
| 59 | ‘ Wisden ’ is widely hailed as the cricketers ' bible , but it has barely progressed beyond Chronicles ( the match reports ) and the Book of Numbers ( the records section ) . |
| 60 | This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important . |