Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " 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 They have features , particularly chaotic polymorphisms , similar to those seen for the spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health .
12 What disclosure should be made in the respective companies ' financial statements ?
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 ] .
17 He is particularly disappointed that the Chancellor did not address important submissions made by the National Farmers ' Union .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Appropriately enough , one station in Canada , Harriston , Ontario , has been reused as a senior citizens ' recreation centre .
21 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 .
22 The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 And of the expected 6,000 visitors , 1,200 can be accommodated in the nearby students ' dormitory area .
27 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 .
28 Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 .
29 The union supported the idea of a national wage for seafarers , determined by and supervised by a National or London Joint Committee of the parties concerned and corresponding Local Joint Committees but proposed that labour should be supplied by the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union .
30 This fringe left-wing newspaper was produced by the Irish Workers ' Group , a Trotskyist groupuscule which had a scattering of supporters in Ireland but was strongest among Irish exiles in London .
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