Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A telephone poll of athletes by national cross-country coach Bud Baldaro , who was not consulted by the UKCCC , revealed that most athletes likely to figure prominently strongly favoured accepting an offer by the Women 's Cross-Country and Road Running Association to incorporate the men 's trial into the women 's event at Birkenhead on February 16 . |
| 2 | This is Walton 's part in the Women 's World Day Of Prayer . |
| 3 | The 18-track set charts the retiring Coventry boy 's progress from The Specials ' 1979 hit , ‘ Gangsters ’ , through Fun Boy Three 's collaboration with Bananarama , ‘ It Ai n't What You Do ’ , to solo work in the '90s . |
| 4 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 5 | There was a slight preponderance of hiatus hernia in the control group and of Barrett 's oesophagus in the miners ' group , but these were not statistically significant . |
| 6 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 7 | In October the Principal wrote further to express the Academic Board 's disagreement with the visitors ' findings . |
| 8 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 9 | Chairman , if we take Mrs , Mrs 's point under the children 's services plan which is later in your . |
| 10 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 11 | Wickham appeared on his way from MacQuillan 's room to the typists ' office . |
| 12 | The row followed hard on the heels of Tuesday 's criticism by the Members ' Interests Select Committee that Mr Gummer should have declared work paid for by a giant food company to restore a pond at his Suffolk home . |
| 13 | The central committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( MSMP or HSWP ) decided on Dec. 12 to change the party 's name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 14 | The Reporter 's request to the Children 's Panel for an extension of the Place of Safety orders for a further twenty-one days was upheld . |
| 15 | The recovery of a piece engraved with a horse 's head from the reindeer-hunters ' station of Meiendorf , north-east of Hamburg , shows indeed that this began during the final stage of the Ice Age . |
| 16 | One of his largest commissions was the Boer war memorial in Pietermaritzburg , a composition in marble and bronze surmounted by a winged figure , and he produced , among others , statues of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra , the equestrian statues of the maharajah , Sir Chandra Shamshere Yung , for Nepal and the first Earl Haig [ q.v. ] for the esplanade outside Edinburgh Castle , and a children 's fountain for the Women 's World Temperance Association , a replica of which was placed in the Temple Gardens , London . |
| 17 | Nor can the charge of time-serving be wholly accepted of a prelate who was on good terms with John XXII , who protested against the king 's retention of the Templars ' lands , and whose piety was esteemed by contemporaries . |
| 18 | Hillier , 22 , played a veteran 's role in the Gunners ' victory against Oldham , guiding novice midfielders Steve Morrow , 22 , and Ray Parlour , 19 , through their big-match Highbury ordeal . |
| 19 | And I was thinking , do you remember , the wonderful bit about the sheep 's skull in the children 's bedroom ? ’ |
| 20 | Subsequently , in an unrelated claim by the plaintiff bank against the defendants , the bank sought discovery of the copy of the employee 's affidavit in the defendants ' solicitors ' possession . |
| 21 | Although she had expressed doubts about Ursula 's interpretation of the police 's conduct , it had rung truer to her than she had cared to admit . |
| 22 | At the Wolverton end , Polly was stabled in the Engineer 's yard during the men 's working period . |
| 23 | If this went too far , of course , the sense of supernatural assistance would destroy one 's awareness of the companions ' courage , as also the deeply-felt implicit moral that this is the way to behave . |
| 24 | Erm I went to , as a private nurse , I started training in the North Middlesex then I did children 's training in the Children 's Aid Society . |
| 25 | Sir : Peter Wilby 's endorsement of the vice-chancellors ' proposal to charge undergraduates full fees ( 29 September ) confuses two quite different issues ; expansion and access . |
| 26 | He or she would decide whether cases should go on to a Children 's Hearing before the Children 's Panel , or whether to take no further action . |
| 27 | These had been made by the institution 's carpenter in the guardians ' time , and at their expense . |
| 28 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 29 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 30 | A KURDISH refugee who set fire to himself after being told his application for political asylum in Britain had failed has died , intensifying criticism of the Home Office 's handling of the Kurds ' plight , writes Mike Prestage . |