Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 The professional officers , particularly when organised through a chief officers ' team , as advocated by the Bains Committee , and led by a chief executive officer can provide a formidable obstacle to councillors intent on policy innovation that goes against conventional assumptions .
2 The hon. Gentleman has just been reminded of the shabby teachers ' pay record of the Labour Government whom he supported some years ago — It was his Government then , although their successors may not be represented on the Front Bench in quite the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish .
3 In 1975 a steel fence was added on the visiting supporters ' side of the corridor to further restrict access between the two halves .
4 These villages lie way beyond the reach of limited government services , which were shown to be in crisis last year when the island group was added to the United Nations ' list of Least Developed Countries ( LDCs ) .
5 Markov was posthumously rehabilitated to the Bulgarian Writers ' Union early in January 1990 , when a Bulgarian publishing house was reported to be preparing to republish his writings .
6 She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies ' College , Ormond College , and Melbourne University , where she studied philosophy and history ( BA 1903 ) .
7 The general election of May 1982 was won by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) which was returned in the general elections of April 6 and April 30 , 1987 , after winning nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in both .
8 But this is a sprawling , occasionally crawling album made for the New FADS ' fans more than Mr & Mrs Casual Punter .
9 They have features , particularly chaotic polymorphisms , similar to those seen for the spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma .
10 Since this is an assumption taken for granted by a good deal of modern criticism , we should consider some of the objections that can be made against the New Critics ' arguments in its favour .
11 The combined effect of these problems is currently felt in the Spanish railways ' extremely low commercial speeds which greatly hamper competition with road and air transport .
12 Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health .
13 What disclosure should be made in the respective companies ' financial statements ?
14 The Committee says that the draft Directive has missed the opportunity to lay down ‘ a simple , well-defined framework for the protection of personal data and the regulation of personal data processing , applied on a consistent basis ' throughout the EC .
15 After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 .
16 A few weeks later , in a speech made to the All-Russian Teachers ' Congress in Moscow on 9 July , Khrushchev made a specific reference to Cuba in this respect .
17 RICE wines made from a recipe given last year were presented at an annual members ' judging evening of the Alresford and District Wine Circle at the John Pearson Hall last week .
18 To see this platform threatened by a mere Smiths ' power game , hardly proved good PR for the band and a degree of bad feeling began to boil away in their home city .
19 Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] .
20 He is particularly disappointed that the Chancellor did not address important submissions made by the National Farmers ' Union .
21 For the most part people did not take the question seriously ; it was the characteristic passion of young men in the grip of recent learning , or policemen temporarily possessed by the Libyan officials ' variety of amok .
22 It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement .
23 Appropriately enough , one station in Canada , Harriston , Ontario , has been reused as a senior citizens ' recreation centre .
24 The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades .
25 The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute .
26 For the Community as a whole , the Maastricht agreement and all its areas — including the social provisions , which the others will accept outside the treaty on the basis of a separate protocol to be agreed in a few months ' time — were the significant aspect .
27 These differences may be reflected in the two nations ' space programmes — the French march onwards , their plans to the fore , while the British cautiously conducted a step-by-step withdrawal .
28 Any rise in Bank Rate would induce the discount houses to raise their lending rates and this in turn would be reflected in the clearing banks ' interest rates .
29 And of the expected 6,000 visitors , 1,200 can be accommodated in the nearby students ' dormitory area .
30 And then in addition there are the thirty one composite motions that regions have agreed since the pre-congress delegates ' meetings and finally an index to the general motions so that 's very much an explanation for the benefit of first-time delegates to congress .
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