Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The investors will also request that the managers warrant information contained in the accountants ' due diligence report . |
3 | In turn , I subsequently followed up some of the issues raised in the job interviews in the teachers ' day-to-day work . |
4 | Doubtless there was discussion in the teachers ' common room about which sister the latest Spencer recruit to Poplar class would emulate , Sarah or Jane . |
5 | This may include lecture preparation , presentation , research for a publication or article in the members ' own name or research for a new piece of work to be undertaken . |
6 | THE small ad in The Times ' Golden Anniversary column this week was refreshingly honest . |
7 | Time spent on this aspect is a very sound investment in the ferrets ' future performance . |
8 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
9 | Indeed in the Conservatives ' 1987 Election Manifesto , there was ample support for the NHS and no mention of an enhanced role for the private sector . |
10 | The ancient television in the boarders ' common room was giving a reasonable picture for a change . |
11 | ONE of the happiest men in Basildon was Joe Mills , an Essex University student from Harlow , who claimed the 800 metres title by just four-hundredths of a second in the Championships ' best race . |
12 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
13 | The rating agency says that the action follows Philips ' agreement to sell to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co its 35% stake in the companies ' joint venture . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Marie , who is in the Paras ' territorial battalion , is also the first woman to join the regiment 's elite Black Lanyards free fall parachute display team . |
16 | The teaching of learned gesture could be approached in a systematic , comparative way , at least with monolingual groups , where differences between learned gesture in the students ' own culture and in the target culture are often a subject of considerable interest . |
17 | Hunter dislocated his shoulder in the Lions ' tour-opening win against North Auckland . |
18 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
19 | While the Polish church has always been a vital element in the Poles ' national identity , neither the Protestant nor the Catholic churches in Germany — much less East Germany — have ever had this function . |
20 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
21 | Beanpole striker Andy Smith has emerged as one of the key figures in the Diamonds ' recent revival . |
22 | For example , at what stage in the pupils ' artistic development should the artist be introduced and in what way do artists help ? |
23 | There were no significant changes in the patients ' mean weight and serum creatinine and sodium concentrations throughout the trial . |
24 | ARSENAL keeper David Seaman and midfielder David Hillier are fit to face Manchester United today after being substituted in the Gunners ' 3–0 crash at Leeds . |
25 | If you are keeping ants ( Chapter 12 ) , put a stem or leaf bearing aphids in the ants ' feeding compartment . |
26 | The handsome and sombre costumes , historically accurate , are relieved by colour only in the auto-da-fe , which seemed to belong to another production and signally failed to make the flesh creep , even when the fire was lit in the victims ' underground cage . |
27 | The percentages of variants in Sue 's speech provide a reasonably reliable index of the socioeconomic status and educational background of her interlocutors , just as the percentages of those forms in the clients ' own speech are able to do . |
28 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
29 | Chelsea-bound Kharin was due to make his farewell appearance for CSKA Moscow in the Scots ' second match of the champions ' league in Bochum . |
30 | St Helens have signed Tea Ropati , the New Zealand centre , who was invalided home with a knee injury early in the Kiwis ' English tour . |