Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am concerned that if I now have to respond fully to that part of the plaintiffs ' order of 5 June dealing with the various alleged payments my position vis-à-vis the police investigation may well be prejudiced . |
| 2 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 3 | Whether the mother or the father is younger or if they are of the same age , has little effect on the infants ' survival chances , in so far as both parents are in the age most favourable to procreate healthy infants . |
| 4 | While Communists had taken an active part in the 1926 General Strike and earned some support within the Miners ' Federation , most trade-union officials looked upon them as enemies trying to control the movement in the interests of a foreign organization . |
| 5 | In clearly stating the terms of conditions of sale , SLAD has given some backbone to the dealers ' frequently invoked claim that they ‘ guarantee their goods ( unlike the auction houses ) ’ . |
| 6 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 7 | Her heart thudded painfully as he leaned over the high beige bench top that bordered this part of the nurses ' station and spoke absently to Deana . |
| 8 | For another instance of the courts ' approach to this problem see George v Pinnock [ 1973 ] 1 WLR 118 at pp 124 – 125 . |
| 9 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 10 | Thirdly , we have to give some recognition to the societies ' success in competing with banks , through their traditional friendly and comparatively informal image and their flexible operating hours . |
| 11 | An analysis and assessment of the findings of previous catalogue use studies may shed some light on the users ' apparent change of heart towards the library catalogue since the advent of online systems . |
| 12 | The notion that SCOTVEC could validate private centres such as industrial training centres or trade associations to deliver National Certificate modules was greeted originally with some opposition from the teachers ' unions . |
| 13 | Firstly , there is wide recognition that the study techniques of higher education students are weak , and , if the small amount of institutional time and lecturing staff devoted to this part of higher education is any measure , there would seem to be some indifference to the students ' shortcomings . |
| 14 | Scotland have offered some assistance in the Canadians ' injury crisis , physiotherapist Colin Elliot will be available to them , but it seems the Canadians stopped short of asking Scotland whether they could borrow their spare player — Stark — for the Fiji tournament , for which Canadian captain Julian Loveday has joined David Lougheed as an invalid . |
| 15 | We have been encouraged to hear from the president of the National Licensed Victuallers Association that he has seen some softening in the brewers ' approach since our meetings with them . |
| 16 | They are of most use in monitoring the investigative and administrative workloads of the different agencies together with giving some insight into the agencies ' changing priorities and interventions with children and families . |
| 17 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 18 | LONG before England came such a cropper at Lansdowne Road , there were many besides the Scots among the British rugby fraternity who were already positive that Gavin Hastings would be revealed this morning as the Lions ' captain for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand . |
| 19 | Congress , this legislation is th yet another attack on the workers ' rights , wages and ability to organize . |
| 20 | This aspect of the teams ' activity has not yet been formally evaluated . |
| 21 | He is looking , instead , for a classification system that will above all be simple and that will attempt to include the number of interviews that take place in a bureau , together with some classification of the clients ' main and subsidiary problems as well as the type of advice or information given . |
| 22 | But some distillation of the authors ' experience and wisdom would have been welcome . |
| 23 | This mushrooming of the producers ' cooperatives , often through the amalgamation of small farms has been welcomed by Cuban leaders because the cooperatives are generally well integrated into the revolutionary process . |
| 24 | This evaluation of the Egyptians ' attitude to time is borne out by their attitude to chronology . |
| 25 | Prison management admits the regime , while being open , had been directionless and they are now introducing some purpose to the prisoners ' time there . |
| 26 | Work was stratified , resulting in the most inexperienced and least qualified nurses delivering practical nursing care to the patient while senior nurses planned , organised and coordinated this activity from the nurses ' station , thus controlling the work while busying themselves with administrative duties . |
| 27 | Booksellers are permitted to give a 10% discount to such libraries , which must first be licensed for this purpose by the Publishers ' Association . |
| 28 | We can in fact penetrate beyond the officialese of the correspondents , thanks to the investigations conducted by R. Shafir at this time into the peasants ' own view of the press . |
| 29 | But candidates for the presidency are becoming an increasingly rare breed , and this time round the officers ' task has not been easy . |
| 30 | The fundamental weakness of this approach is that it relies to some extent on the researchers ' imagination as to what the future may hold , particularly about what new goods and services might emerge , either directly from the new technology or simply because its higher productivity may give consumers greater spending power and so create demands for hitherto undreamed-of goods and services . |