Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A new fair takes place in London from 5 to 11 May , timed to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the British Antique Dealers ' Association . |
| 32 | THE Sports Council may cut the British Amateur Weightlifters ' Association 's £170,000 grant for taking no action against Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton . |
| 33 | WEIGHTLIFTERS Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton have decided not to seek compensation from the British Amateur Weightlifters ' Association for their Olympic drugs ordeal . |
| 34 | Within the last ten years , I 've been ten years activ actively concerned with the old aged pensioners ' association and er the Labour movement . |
| 35 | The remaining three terms ' grant can be reinstated at whichever point the student reaches the target resulting , again , in some students graduating at Christmas or Easter after their originally expected date of completion . |
| 36 | When the erstwhile All Blacks ' captain , Wayne Shelford , was asked on Saturday evening if the appointment of Gavin Hastings , assuming it transpired , was to be seen as a victory for the Celtic fringe , he answered simply that it would have an awful lot more to do with his having some decidedly impressive credentials . |
| 37 | Brunei assumed the chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in mid-1988 , as a result of which the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting was held in Bandar Seri Begawan in July 1989 [ see p. 36817 ] . |
| 38 | An ASEAN statement issued on July 23 ( the day before the start of the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Indonesia — see p. 37613 ) stated that the representation of Cambodia at the UN was " a delicate political question " and that attempts to change the seating in the absence of an acceptable Supreme National Council would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution . |
| 39 | Action from the annual large schools ' netball tournament . |
| 40 | The opposition responded with calls for the conference to be chaired by the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the Roman Catholic Bishops ' Conference and archbishop of Kisangani , in place of Isaac Kalonji Mutambaye , regarded as discredited by his loyalty to Mobutu . |
| 41 | At least five association members were made redundant by the Roman Catholic boys ' school of Ampleforth , North Yorkshire , last year . |
| 42 | Ortega hinges peace offer on disbanding of contras Simon Tisdall in Managua looks at prospects for a Nicaraguan proposal at the Central American presidents ' summit this weekend . |
| 43 | The public-sector and service industries had been unable to give the required 10 days ' notice for participation , but 10,000,000 people employed in other sectors took part . |
| 44 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their applications to UCCA through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London as listed in an appendix to the UCCA handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania and Thailand . |
| 45 | Overseas candidates who are applying from the following countries are advised to submit their application to UCAS through the appropriate overseas students ' office in London listed in the UCAS handbook : Cyprus , Ghana ( private candidates only ) , Guyana , India , Luxembourg , Mauritius , Tanzania , Thailand . |
| 46 | Liu Binyan and Su Xiaokang were expelled from the official Chinese Writers ' Association for their " anti-government activities abroad " . |
| 47 | He and Hayling emerged with £11,000 from Manchester City Council , £7,000 from the TGWU , £6,000 from SOGAT and a total of £10,650 from six others — National Union of Public Employees ( NUPE ) , £3,500 ; National Communications Union ( NCU ) , £2,000 ; National Union of Journalists ( NUJ ) , £2,000 ; National Association of Local Government Officers ( NALGO ) , £2,000 ; Association of Cinematograph , Television and Allied Technicians ( ACTT ) , £650 ; and the tiny TGWU-dominated Bakers ' Union , £500 . |
| 48 | In January 1956 Jacques requested from each tutor-organiser a summary of the previous six months ' work , in order to prepare a general report for the Ministry of Education . |
| 49 | Each of the two sub-units of the British contingent manning the BZ ( Buffer Zone ) has sent in a sitrep detailing the previous twenty-four hours ' activity in the BZ . |
| 50 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 51 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 52 | The congress agreed that PSOE members need no longer be affiliated to the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , a decision reflecting recent disagreements between the PSOE and the UGT , and formally ending the once close relationship between the two organizations . |
| 53 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 54 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 55 | Thoroughgood 's most important position was as one of the trustees for the maintenance of ministers , appointed in 1649 to supplement the work of the parliamentary plundered ministers ' committee by augmenting the stipends of clergy and teachers out of funds at their disposal . |
| 56 | In April 1921 fifty delegates from England and Wales set up a national organization , the National Unemployed Workers ' Committee Movement ( NUWCM ) , with Wal Hannington as national organizer . |
| 57 | As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party . |
| 58 | Our second decision concerned Mrs Kate Duncan who , as a member of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , wanted to give a speech outside an unemployment training centre . |
| 59 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 60 | These demonstrations were organised by the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , and their actions illustrate one of the major differences between responses to unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s and current responses . |