Example sentences of "the [noun] ' [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The Prisoners ' Trust want them to exploit it |
2 | The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits . |
3 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
4 | The scores also illustrated a recurring problem on this sevens tour — the Scots ' physique puts them at great disadvantage in terms of weight of tackle . |
5 | The Ramblers ' Association said it welcomed any measures that allowed more people to walk in the countryside , and assistant director David Baskine said : ‘ It is important that the proposals will not offer payment to farmers who own land where public access is already allowed . ’ |
6 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
7 | The supermarkets ' muscle enables them to demand quality yet keep farmers ' prices down , and the gap between what they pay and what they charge has widened . |
8 | Our man on the visitors ' end assures us that the chant was ‘ Big fat Ray 's black and white army ’ virtually throughout . |
9 | Opposition groups were critical of the visit , the Workers ' Party describing it as " a condonation of recent government measures which deny the values believed in by the Commonwealth " . |
10 | She was to be boarded permanently so we would need the owners ' permission to take her away . |
11 | Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs . |
12 | But , at the same time , several aspects of the Newmanites ' campaign make them a uniquely threatening phenomenon on the political scene . |
13 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
14 | The families ' lawyer says it 's time the matter was sorted out . |
15 | In granting the county court order , Judge Geoffrey Vos said the families ' affidavits showed they feared for their children . |
16 | After he survived the vote , Mr Major went to the Whips ' office to thank them for their help . |
17 | The Works ' management says it 's a scandal and wants the redundancy notices withdrawn altogether . |
18 | It is also possible that the tribal tattoos which Savage Orc Shamans paint onto the Orcs ' bodies protect them in some way . |
19 | Just wearing the Falcons ' jumpsuit gives you confidence . |
20 | Shortly afterwards they invited the seventh defendant who was employed by the plaintiffs ' group to join them . |
21 | The travellers ' flight took them across the desert . |
22 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
23 | The Fourstars ' lawyer showed it to Medicare which finally relented . |
24 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |
25 | Although ales represent around a fifth of the nablab sector as a whole , The Brewers ' Society says it is ‘ so small a market that we do n't even bother to quantify it . ’ |
26 | In a statement , the boys ' father said he told them : ‘ Do not let women come between you . |
27 | The victims ' relatives say they have a life sentence to bare , and Gooch deserved to spend longer in prison . |