Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In a previous BBC serial about the moral bankruptcy and satanic drabness of a fictional new town , the polite credits ' acknowledgment to the real modern conurbation which had admitted the cameras had an inadvertent satirical ring . |
2 | He was a founder member of the Junior Ministers ' Convention in 1888 . |
3 | He streaked the junior men 's event with a distance of 57.18 metres and showed his worth by finishing third to Great Britain 's Paul Head in the senior men 's section , making 52.54 with the heavier hammer . |
4 | Long jumper Anthony Mason , of Ipswich Harriers , cleared seven metres for the first time in his career to smash the junior men 's record by 34 centimetres , and 16-year-old Keith Davis shaved a tenth of a second off the under-17 400 metres record with a time of 52.0 seconds . |
5 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
6 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
7 | The European Parliament on Sept. 12 , in a resolution stating that only a diplomatic solution could settle the crisis ( passed by 300 to 70 with 19 abstentions ) , called on Italy as current holder of the presidency of the European Communities ' Council of Ministers to convene a special EC summit to find such a solution . |
8 | Bell , 30 , was a member of the Aberdeen squad who won the European Cup-Winners ' Cup in 1983 and is a former Scottish Under-21 international . |
9 | ‘ I 'm glad to see so many clowns here instead of where they should be — in Westminster or back in their constituencies , ’ quips Ron Moody , president of Clowns International , at the official opening of the European Clowns ' Convention on 21 March . |
10 | It is , after all , the largest children 's hospital in Europe and staff find it hard to cross , let alone mothers with young children and pushchairs . |
11 | ( 13 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg , wife of the Secretary of Labour , paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
12 | ( 37 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg … paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
13 | They are found at various points on plants , including fruits as on those of Crescentia spp. and in 15 other genera of Bignoniaceae , and the nectar may make up substantial parts of the ant diet as in the case of the extrafloral nectar of Caularthron bilamellatum ( Orchidaceae ) of Central America , which comprises up to 48% of the associated ants ' diet at some times of the year . |
14 | Arnaldo Ferreira , a local leader of the Rural Workers ' Union in Eldorado do Carajas , Amazonia , was shot dead as he slept , four days after the discovery of Vinha 's body . |
15 | The Anglo Saxons ' solution to chapping and peeling was a poultice of beet , lettuce , coriander , herbs and crumbs mixed with water . |
16 | It is for this reason that sociologists have often assumed that they must respect the professional psychologists ' judgement in these matters , and so have treated Freud from their viewpoint as unscientific and unusable . |
17 | These courses , which are organised in collaboration with the Small-Scale Miners ' Association of Zimbabwe and the Intermediate Technology Development Group , are designed to give intensive practical training in basic geology , gold prospection , surveying , sampling , orebody evaluation , business and financial planning as well as covering mining law , mine engineering , beneficiation methods , etc . |
18 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
19 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
20 | Councillor Anne James , spokeswoman for the Torfaen Environmental Health Committee , criticised the private caterers ' approach to food preparation with limited resources . |
21 | HOME Office and planning issues dominate the concerns of MPs who won places in the private members ' ballot for legislative time in the coming session . |
22 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
23 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
24 | Thieves stole cash from fruit machines when they broke into the working men 's club at Great Ayton on Saturday morning . |
25 | They still see Scotland as north Britain , an appendage that can be guaranteed to play its part in the Labour unionists ' drama of periodically legitimising long periods of Tory rule by brief interregnums of Labour control . |
26 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
27 | The AI representatives met government and security officials , including ministers and the armed forces ' Chief of General Staff , and interviewed victims of torture and other abuses , as well as other witnesses and human rights activists . |
28 | During the summer , Galleria Contini was showing the pictures at their branch in the rich Italians ' play-ground of Cortina d'Ampezzo . |
29 | A member of the Scottish Girls ' team for the European Team championship , she led the side to victory in the Home Internationals . |
30 | The defender , hurt in a collision with Hibernian 's Pat McGinlay , will be in the Scottish champions ' line-up against Motherwell at Ibrox . |