Example sentences of "[det] of the [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course of the war between the Madrid stalemate and the beginning of 1938 clearly illustrates some of the two sides ' military strengths and weaknesses . |
| 2 | Now it would be helpful if some of the new ministers ' ideas had to do with money . |
| 3 | [ since ] the aim of achieving a strong competitive position in international markets , or at least the concern not to be at a disadvantage in comparison with competitors in other countries was one of the chief arguments advanced by some of the first employers ' associations against proposals for social reforms through protective labour and social legislation . |
| 4 | We shall discuss the attitudes of the arts students towards science later ; however , it is worth noting that Colin 's attitude to science bore a marked resemblance to some of the English students ' attitudes towards their subject . |
| 5 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 6 | There is a review of the 1991-92 season by the captains of each of the Five Nations ' Championship sides and ample space is given to their views of the game . |
| 7 | More traditional home grown ways of alleviating unemployment meanwhile have been outlined in each of the major parties ' manifestoes . |
| 8 | Here the classic case was that of the Flemish towns ' exploitation of the succession crisis on the death of Count Charles the Good in 1127 . |
| 9 | In Fig. 12 a comparison is made between a typical Rotliegende reservoir section , in 53/5–1 , and that of the Barren Measures ' sandstones in 53/12–3 . |
| 10 | For graciously though they shaped much of the music , the sounds were too lusty , too robust — and ultimately , much of the individual composers ' character was lost . |
| 11 | The Conservative manifesto makes much of the 13 years ' record in foreign policy , but is silent about the great motto of two years ago ‘ the new world order ’ , which the Gulf war was supposed to promote . |
| 12 | By 1917 he had succeeded in breaking much of the German admirals ' flag code , detecting , with his ear for metre , lines of poetry in the repeated bigrams of a message , which provided a crib . |
| 13 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
| 14 | Of course , Branson explained , the whole scheme would be in profit very quickly : the real bonus was that under the regulations governing hospital radio , which is also transmitted by cable , Music Box would not actually be legally obliged to pay any of the standard performers ' royalties . |
| 15 | This means that you can apply for a special plastic card that will enable you to withdraw money from any of the participating societies ' dispensers . |
| 16 | Like many small booksellers , he is not near any of the large chains ' outlets . |
| 17 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |
| 18 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 19 | Quite likely there would be those who travelled to the Continent in the hope of establishing family links though most of the original strangers ' would by now be dead . |
| 20 | This was when most of the older breeds ' herdbooks and breed societies were established and in 1874 the Nederlands Rundvee Stamboek ( NRS ) national herdbook was formed , operating on a provincial basis and registering and describing all breeds and types without differentiating between them . |