Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 The coalition had been joined by the Peasants ' Party and the Peasants ' Alliance .
2 The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) .
3 MUCH attention has been given to the Prisoners ' Dilemma as a metaphor for the problems surrounding the evolution of cooperative behaviour .
4 The Monument to the People 's Heroes , the stone obelisk in the middle of the square where student leaders had their ‘ command centre ’ , has been declared a forbidden zone because it is felt to have been contaminated by the students ' presence .
5 For Newcastle , having built up a two-goal lead could have been caught by the Bees ' stirring comeback .
6 However , tactical considerations may dictate that some conditions and definition terms are omitted from the vendors ' draft of the heads .
7 Quality is improved and costs reduced if the components are designed with the suppliers ' most efficient manufacturing process in mind .
8 However the voting might go in these circumstances there could be no PR of wet , damp and dry votes , because there would be no means of knowing how far these had been attracted by the candidates ' presumed wetness , dampness or dryness .
9 So far the exercise has been confined to the managers ' professional body , the Institute of Health Service Management ( IHSM ) .
10 And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) .
11 The silent war between the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders did not last long , for by 1748 the imprimatur had been dropped from the Upholders ' blank funeral invitations and we no longer hear from the United Company of Undertakers again .
12 I have argued that the limits of sovereignty are contained in the courts ' central commitment to representative democracy : a purported statute which attempted to subvert democracy could derive no legal authority from the doctrine .
13 But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew .
14 A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association .
15 Nevertheless , there is certainly a common core of skills and knowledge that managers are expected to master and these are built into the managers ' induction and training programme .
16 DEMANDS for a legal right of access to Scotland 's countryside have been made by the Ramblers ' Association , and by former senior officials of the Countryside Commission for Scotland .
17 Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) .
18 Strains are imposed on the self-builders ' families and main jobs , and as a result these schemes are not suitable for all persons and rarely for the elderly .
19 No you 're entitled to that you know that 's the If you have actually nominated somebody and that nomination has been accepted by the Teachers ' Pensions Agency .
20 Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger .
21 Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ?
22 Mr MacGregor rejected Opposition charges that the Government 's plans had been torpedoed by the banks ' withdrawal when he made a statement to the Commons yesterday .
23 But investors must pay a price for this increased safety — not all of any gains are reflected in the trusts ' performances .
24 The company will therefore lose its quotation after the measures are approved at a shareholders ' meeting .
25 The rigidity and over-centralisation had been shown in the nurses ' pay regrading exercise , which had been worth ‘ nought out of 10 — useless ’ .
26 The opening of relations had largely been dictated by the powers ' own interests in the East Asian region , but now the issues became far more complex ; account had to be taken of factors as diverse as Japan 's economic imperatives , the growth of Japanese military power and the emergence of national sentiment in response to foreign contact .
27 TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader .
28 About 20 syllables and 6 basic themes have been recognised in the whales ' singing , which can continue through day and night with only short pauses for breath .
29 In some macroeconometric models ( for example , the Liverpool model of the UK economy ) , inflationary expectations are based on the models ' own predictions of the future inflation rate .
30 In such circumstances , the lease and its counterpart can be exchanged immediately they have been settled by the parties ' advisers , and any works to be carried out by the tenant can be dealt with in a licence for alterations .
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