Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , they emphasised export strategies as an alternative to the leaders ' investment-based approach . |
| 2 | I am not kidding you : for this high-level encounter he goes to the news-agents ' next door and gets the key that hangs behind the counter . |
| 3 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 4 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 5 | From the hub of the operation , the Ilopango Air Base in El Salvador , creaking aircraft flew supplies to the contras ' northern front billetted in Honduras . |
| 6 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 7 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 8 | Those who studied the parties ' platforms carefully would have had to relate the Labour Party 's generally stronger commitment to universal social security policies to the Conservatives ' specific pledge . |
| 9 | According to the Bolsheviks ' own admission , the local militia was incapacitated . |
| 10 | This delay was partly due to the teachers ' industrial action in the summer term of 1984 . |
| 11 | He speared a full-toss into Stewart 's pads , out of the dark Press-box window , and what somebody calculated as the 27th appeal of the innings was answered to the Pakistanis ' exquisite satisfaction . |
| 12 | ‘ Hello , Malcolm , ’ said Hilary Frome , pausing at the door of the sick bay on his way to the boarders ' common room . |
| 13 | Packages are well described , prices given before the user is invited to download i.e. transfer the programs on to the users ' own disk . |
| 14 | As to the kidnappers ' next step , she was confused but pessimistic . |
| 15 | The massive door gave way , and the Russians were upon them , stumbling through the debris , some falling to the defenders ' final volley . |
| 16 | The student movement formed a distinct current of protest , responding primarily to the students ' own experience . |
| 17 | Discussions of this anxiety usually refer back to the students ' own learning in which rules were formalised and exemplificatory exercises done . |
| 18 | Occasionally he would descend to the students ' common room immediately beneath and beg them to make less noise so that he could write . |
| 19 | The direction of alleged bias was related in a complex way to the critics ' own partisanship . |
| 20 | Consequently , conversation analysis limits the external analyst 's interpretational leeway because it relates his or her interpretations back to the members ' mutual understanding of their utterances as manifest in their behaviour . |
| 21 | With a regretful look at her glass , and a warning glance at Lord Beddington should he tamper with its contents while she was gone — she had observed his hand stealing towards it already — she rose to make her way upstairs to the ladies ' retiring room . |
| 22 | This appeal does not emanate from the rational and utilitarian purposes parents may satisfy through reading : rather , the child responds to the parents ' emotional absorption in reading . |
| 23 | An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship . |
| 24 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 25 | So far the exercise has been confined to the managers ' professional body , the Institute of Health Service Management ( IHSM ) . |
| 26 | An RFL is subject to the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal , including its power to fine the RFL , to strike the name of the RFL off the register or to suspend his or her registration . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The best solution , I have found , is to throw them down , one by one , on to the horses ' deep bed of wood-chips , off which they almost always bounce unscathed . |
| 29 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 30 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |