Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
2 | Thus the difference between a contract of guarantee and one of indemnity was vital until section 2 of the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 changed the law . |
3 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
4 | Certain observations by the Royal Commission , notably concerning an apparent conflict between rules 3 and 7 of the Judges ' Rules as they then stood , led the Home Secretary to seek the advice of the judges . |
5 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
6 | Section 3 of the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 empowers the court , where it would be ‘ just and equitable ’ ( i.e. fair ) to do so , to require the minor to return property which he has acquired under a contract which is unenforceable against him . |
7 | For the general view of music-making in the Nineteenth Century is inaccurate : time has winnowed away the reputations of many of the figures best known at the time , and completely obscured the smaller fry that occupied nine-tenths of the publishers ' catalogues of those days . |
8 | Magistrates ' court R v Holyhead Justices , Ex parte Rowlands ; QBD ( Mann LJ , Waterhouse J ) ; 31 Aug 1989 An objection to witness statements tendered by the prosecution being admitted in evidence should be made according to the procedure in s 102 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 . |
9 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
10 | ‘ Hel lo ! ’ squeaks one of the ladies ' hats suddenly — and there are the Bernsteins . |
11 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
12 | Suddenly , he called out two licence plate numbers ; one of these , except for one digit , turned out to match the number plate of one of the kidnappers ' vans . |
13 | About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service . |
14 | There 's generally one in the main parents ' bedroom , perhaps there 's one in one in er one of the youngsters ' bedrooms , there could even be one in the kitchen these days . |
15 | You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons . |
16 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
17 | On ballots , the hon. Gentleman quoted what one of the employers ' organisations said about workplace ballots and its proviso that they should be properly conducted . |
18 | Gordon Watson , who scored twice in last week 's Coca Cola Cup seven-goal rout of Leicester and again in the reserves on Thursday , now looks certain to fill one of the strikers ' roles . |
19 | Next day , in her usual riding class , Evelyn was given one of the beginners ' ponies to ride ; not because she had become ‘ big-headed ’ over night , but because her instructor had spotted one weakness in her riding . |
20 | Such a conference is one of the students ' demands . |
21 | It is worth remembering that the London merchant Richard Lyons , who had been impeached in 1376 , was one of the rebels ' victims five years later . |
22 | In the event of a failure of one of the lexicographers ' printers , the 3812 may be configured for their use . |
23 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
24 | Ryanne one of the yanks ' names the other night , Ryanne . |
25 | Xorandor is capable of wordplay , he even puns on Shakespeare : ‘ softwarily we are observed ’ ( 179 ) , and he gives a reply to one of the twins ' questions that they later discover to have been ‘ syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous ’ ( 183–4 ) . |
26 | Steve Riley , one of the Founders ' representatives on the Board , asked him to stay . |
27 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
28 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
29 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
30 | ‘ I mean , look at this one , ’ said the interviewer , becoming quite indignant and picking one of the schools ' letters contemptuously from the pile . |