Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] of the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was never racial , ’ says Helena Bagwell , secretary of the tenants ' association club where some of the Ks ' attackers used to drink . |
| 2 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 3 | As it was not a corporate borough it has no freemen 's registers , other than those of the Cutlers ' Company , but for certain periods the parish registers give the occupations of recorded males . |
| 4 | Although most of the Reichmanns ' empire-building occurred in the 1980s , it already seems a far-away era when banks and their customers were willing to suspend disbelief and dare to be , well , if not great at least borrowed to the eyeballs . |
| 5 | Comet debris , as its name suggests , is derived from comets , and much of this debris lies in orbits that are far more eccentric than most of the asteroids ' orbits , and which in many cases carry debris far beyond Jupiter . |
| 6 | Quite where this freight profit would arise is a puzzle , because most of the railways ' profitable coal-carrying lines are closed under this option . |
| 7 | It should be noted that most of these are neutral on the optimism/pessimism scale , while some of the characters ' proverbs approach the meaningless . |
| 8 | To test whether each of the participants ' before and after scores were simply a fluke occurrence , as distinct from a genuine increase in alcohol knowledge , a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test was undertaken using SPSS and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z= - 10. 1839 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 . |
| 9 | After half an hour or so , when some of the journalists ' drinking arms were a blur , Jefferson banged on the table . |
| 10 | We may take Lord Wilberforce 's argument as typical of the Lords ' approach . |
| 11 | Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message . |
| 12 | Failing him , Sir Giles Shaw , a former minister but more widely seen as one of the back-benchers ' own , would be suitable . |