Example sentences of "that [art] [noun] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 . |
| 2 | It is against this background that the cruise missiles ' launch crews would begin their final countdown . |
| 3 | The Northern Ireland Office pushed the line that the strike was an attempted coup by Paisley and most of the media accepted it uncritically despite the fact that the Democratic Unionist Party , of which he was leader , was only one of three political parties in the UUAC and that the Ulster Workers ' Council , which carried most of the industrial muscle , was beholden to no political party or personality . |
| 4 | It followed a federal court decision in Brasília , the Brazilian capital , on Oct. 20 , 1989 , that the gold miners ' presence was illegal . |
| 5 | Berlusconi , unabashed by his own creation of what amounts to a duopoly , bangs the drum of the free market against RAI , claiming that the licence payers ' money is being squandered to break down unwanted competition . |
| 6 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
| 7 | The researchers suggest that the micrometer trainees ' performance was more consistent because most had " mastered the skills involved to the point where they are secure " , while the invoicing trainees were often still in the process of mastering procedures . |
| 8 | In this study there was no significant difference in the diagnostic performance of doctors and non-doctors ; in fact , this study indicates that the team members ' experience of working in the community team is a more important determinant of diagnostic accuracy than their professional background . |
| 9 | Reared in the idealism of the Christian Socialists , Margaret Llewelyn Davies became convinced that the Rochdale Pioneers ' theory of co-operation provided an ideal basis for society , and joined the Marylebone branch of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , which had been formed in 1883 . |
| 10 | By early June the failure of an inquiry by Sir Edward Clark and of a group of ministers headed by Lloyd George to persuade the employers to agree to recognise the Federation and to negotiate with it on a joint board , began to bring nearer the prospect that the Transport Workers ' Federation National Executive would implement a recommendation by its Annual Conference that unless the joint board proposal was accepted a national strike would be declared . |
| 11 | The Executive resolved that the Transport Workers ' Federation should be informed that a national strike " would be detrimental to all concerned " , but that if such a call was made the union would hold a ballot before striking . |
| 12 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 13 | I beg to move That the draft Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act 1987 ( Continuation ) |
| 14 | Haratin leader Messaoud Ould Boulkheir said that the security forces ' clampdown had been particularly targeted at black Mauritanians . |
| 15 | This implies that the Estate Agents ' dictionary does not cover a large enough subset of the language used in the Banking text to provide significantly representative collocations . |
| 16 | The parents ' solicitor said that the Dewsbury parents ' action had ‘ shown the tremendous value of parents fighting for their rights ’ . |
| 17 | Salter and Tapper ( 1981 ) go even further and suggest that the report writers ' aim was to encourage radical ideological changes in teacher attitudes . |