Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [prep] the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 2 | Although opposition to the bondholders ' position was voiced loudly at the 1978 Annual General Meeting — when R.C.E. ( Robert ) Naish ( a non-bondholder with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare ) became President — it at least caused the bondholders to consider the question of their status . |
| 3 | The same study reports pickets laying traps for tappers by directing them to wrong venues ( Coulter , Miller , and Walker , 1984 : 46 ) Although telephone-tapping during the miners ' strike was relatively well publicized , it is allegedly by no means a new phenomenon in the policing of industrial disputes . |
| 4 | The view is gaining ground that , if Ms Campbell does not win more than 40% of the delegates ' votes on the first ballot , Mr Charest will take the crown with the help of Mr Edwards 's backers . |
| 5 | It approximates to a miniature octavo book , while others in the Dolls ' House library are more like reduced folios . |
| 6 | Remembering the events of the fatal Second Council the strength of Phoenix Guard was doubled , and they were sworn to silence lest word of the princes ' deliberations fall into the hands of spies . |
| 7 | Speaking in his capacity as Chairman of the Bishops ' Committee for Catechetics , he continued : |
| 8 | He offered Helen Martini , as Chairman of the Parents ' Action Committee , whatever help he could in the campaign to get the children home , and to ensure that a full judicial inquiry was held . |
| 9 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 10 | red-rimmed as syphilitics from the Baths ' |
| 11 | As evidence of the Greeks ' Dionysiac perception , we can point to the dark side of their mythology : Titanic wars and heroes ; the agonies of Prometheus , Oedipus , Orestes ; and the definitive wisdom of Silenus , the satyr companion of Dionysus : the best thing is not to be born — the next best is to die soon . |
| 12 | Coetsee 's duties as Chair of the Ministers ' Council in the House of Assembly were assumed by Amie Venter , Minister of Regional Development and State Expenditure . |
| 13 | The response , however , as news of the invaders ' arrival spread , was disappointing . |
| 14 | Thornton was one of a group of manuscript chart-makers , who , since the early seventeenth century , had plied their trade as members of the Drapers ' Company in shops lining the streets and alleys down-river from the Tower of London . |
| 15 | Nevertheless controversies continued between the verderers , as protectors of the commoners ' rights , and the officers of the Crown , who wished to enclose and encoppice to promote the growth and sale of timber . |
| 16 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |