Example sentences of "the [noun] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the stand the Directors ' Box emptied quickly but two men , sitting together , did not join in the rapid movement towards the Board Room . |
| 2 | Shakespeare 's drama is celebrated for its poetry , a compliment that on the surface suggests ideologically neutral approval of its language , but which also belies suppositions about the attitudes the plays ' language articulates . |
| 3 | I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters ' Club give for raffle prizes . |
| 4 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 5 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 6 | The University of Walkato , Hamilton , New Zealand reached its 25th Anniversary in 1989 and as part of the celebrations a Graduates ' Association was formed . |
| 7 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 8 | At the beginning the immigrants ' lack of experience and poor organization hampered mobilization , and so other workers struck first . |
| 9 | The photographs show you something of what you will see — underground roadways , coal-faces , haulage engines , and on the surface the blacksmiths ' shop , the baths , and exhibitions . |
| 10 | Well , if you looked at the lines on the grass the blokes ' leg was definately ahead of the defence , the angle made it difficult to judge if his body was . |
| 11 | The control the Scots ' pack brought to proceedings — principally from the platform of the lineout which they took by a conclusive 30-16 margin ( Doddie Weir and Damian Cronin pouching ten takes each ) , yet also in the alacrity with which they arrived at breakdown — left the Welsh utterly befuddled . |
| 12 | Even when the siblings ' reactions to the aggressive child were eliminated from the analysis the siblings ' behaviour was much more aggressive in normal families . |
| 13 | In the meantime the dinosaurs ' lineage probably reached their optimum size for metabolic efficiency . |
| 14 | And by the time the workers ' movement revived in 1902 , the energy of activists was caught up both in Party organization and in the challenge posed by the burgeoning liberal and neo-populist movements . |
| 15 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 16 | The need to hire coaches arose from the fact the Supporters ' Club actively discouraged membership from fans under the age of 18 . |
| 17 | On the other side of the road at the front of the house a builders ' skip was full to the brim . |