Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He is Manager of the Royal Air Force Veteran 's Team , Veterans ' Representative of the Royal Air Force Athletic Association Executive Committee , Secretary of the Eastern Veterans ' Athletic Association and Distribution Manager of the Royal Air Force 's own Athletic magazine . |
2 | One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford . |
3 | As leader of the Liberal Democrats ' largest and wealthiest faction , Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout . |
4 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
5 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
6 | He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives . |
7 | In 1987 only half of the Progressive Democrats ' 14 TDs were elected on quotas made up of first-preference votes given to them or to party running-mates from whom they were transferred . |
8 | In 1989 only two of the Progressive Democrats ' six TDs were elected by votes given exclusively to their party . |
9 | Yesterday 's crunch meeting of the Progressive Democrats ' parliamentary party was adjourned until tomorrow , when they may be left with little option but to quit the Reynolds government . |
10 | The fact that it was not expressly mentioned in the Council of the European Communities ' general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series , p. 7 ) makes no difference , since , useful as it is , the programme only contains guidelines and is not exhaustive . |
11 | The motion , which fell three votes short of the necessary 289 votes , was proposed by Philippe Vasseur ( UDF ) in protest against the government 's support for reform of the European Communities ' common agricultural policy [ see p. 38931 ] . |
12 | The essential problem of enquiring into what may be in other people 's minds has been captured by John Berger , who has made one of the most imaginative reconstructions of the European guest-workers ' social world . |
13 | A pro-forma statement of the combined companies ' net assets was £294m . |
14 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
15 | Henceforth they were true custodians of the Imperial Fists ' greatest treasure . |
16 | The Chief of the Armed Forces ' General Staff , Gen. José Valdivia Dueñas , had not been implicated , according to Fujimori , and would be reinstated in his post . |
17 | Recruitment of Compact students is part of the participating companies ' normal annual recruitment programmes . |
18 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
19 | This tale of personal resolution is saved from saccharine overkill by Byrne 's fine , tortured performance , the children 's refusal to be cute and an almost lyrical conjunction of the young boys ' hidden feelings of neglect and their father 's coming to terms with his bereavement . |
20 | On June 6-9 Albania hosted , for the first time , a meeting of the Balkan countries ' national commissions for UNESCO . |
21 | We 've got five pairs of the new ladies ' red suede Dance trainers from Matchstick , worth £24.99 , to give away — they come in black ( right ) and blue , too . |
22 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The fall of the tragic character into either a real ( that is , narrated ) death or a ( again , narrated ) living death will aid the disavowal , the catharsis , of the non-disabled audiences ' ever-present fear for the loss of their own ‘ able-bodiedness ’ . |
25 | Emerson 's task requires children to respond on the basis of the causal connectives ' secondary function of conveying information about temporal order . |
26 | It has announced three options , the most ambitious of which involves the extension of the various stations ' 30 year operating lives by between three and seven years . |
27 | At the request of the family the music of the Small Faces ' Lazy Sunday Afternoon was played at the service . |
28 | Another , hearing of the little princes ' new holiday arrangements , commented : ‘ I feel sorry for them , being moved around like a pair of poor little shuttlecocks . ’ |
29 | The country has a huge population of heroin addicts , homosexuality is widely practised , and men of all ages and from all classes make regular use of the big cities ' vast red-light districts . |
30 | The end-of-the-year demonstrations appeared to be caused by ‘ racial ’ conflict between Chinese and African students , but it will be argued that these were once again expressions of the Chinese students ' general discontent and disappointment after ten years of reform . |