Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Birse , who competes for Middlesbrough and Cleveland , completed a fine double in the junior boys ' shot and javelin with throws of 12.41 metres and 47.37 metres both qualifying distances . |
| 2 | Fynn is proposing the formation of a UEFA premier league and three regional divisions — with promotion and relegation between them — to replace the European Champions ' Cup and the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 3 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 4 | A week after the meeting , Cobh , Midleton and Passage West , three towns around the Harbour , expressed support for the Ringaskiddy residents ' campaign and urged An Taisce to review its support for Raybestos 's use of asbestos . |
| 5 | The official National Council resolution ‘ deeply deploring ’ the Anglo Catholics ' language and their audacity in referring to the Reformation as a ‘ flagrant wrong ’ , resolved that such behaviour was inconsistent with ‘ the letter and … spirit of their contract with the State ’ . |
| 6 | The Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 7 | THE Football League 's attempts to bring their 14-month search for a chief executive to an early conclusion by choosing between Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers ' Association and Arthur Sandford , chief executive of Nottinghamshire county council , look destined to fail . |
| 8 | THE result of the ballot regarding possible strike action by First Division players will be known today but a solution to the dispute between the Professional Footballers ' Association and the Premier League over payments for televised matches is expected to be announced shortly . |
| 9 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 10 | The so-called deputies ' science and technology working group was asked to nominate people within their agencies to serve on panels that will develop policies for 15 topics ranging from specific issues such as medical technology to basic research itself . |
| 11 | Richard Aitkenhead was head of the Guatemalan Managers ' Association and was connected with the PAN leadership . |
| 12 | He tried to devise new and better ways of operating the machines in the bottle works where he was employed and , realizing that he needed to increase his knowledge of science and mathematics if he was to exploit his ideas , he went in the evenings to the nearby Mechanics ' Institute and also took lessons in trigonometry from a local clergyman . |
| 13 | ‘ They do n't consult us on the agenda of the foreign ministers ' meeting and they do n't treat us as equal partners , ’ says a Czech diplomat . |
| 14 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 15 | There was the usual pub smell of stale tobacco but the river Thames laps against the old smugglers ' inn and its odours mingle with the rest . |
| 16 | There 's something demeaning about Spielberg 's attempts to incorporate modern American youth culture : the Lost Boys ' rapping and skateboarding , more than anything , will prevent this movie from becoming a timeless classic . |
| 17 | Selection criteria were specified , including the requirements that the solicitor 's office be reasonably accessible to the appropriate magistrates ' court and that the solicitor have sufficient criminal advocacy experience during the previous 18 months . |
| 18 | She has just launched Starting Out — the real beginners ' workout and Fat Burning Workout — to help you burn off fat and lose weight . |
| 19 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |
| 20 | The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation . |
| 21 | And er , I would like to propose that this Committee , together with the National Farmers ' Union and Country Ploughmens ' Association sends a delegation to London to meet with the Minister to discuss these issues and other , our concerns . |
| 22 | An instruction was issued by the Seamen 's Union that members were not to engage on ships whose captain and officers were not members of the Certificated Officers ' Union and any doubts among the majority of shipowners that a national organisation of employers was necessary to protect their interests disappeared . |
| 23 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 24 | It has also borrowed heavily from the experience of Afro-America 's shift into electoral politics — the black mayors ' movement and so on . |
| 25 | There was a greater flow of information , more exciting debates internally , and with the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and later on the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group , more politically aware people began to organize around issues of their own oppression . |
| 26 | Partly it was in response to the Black Workers ' Group and because Ahmed and I were both Black and lesbian/gay . |
| 27 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 28 | He would reject the 100 outstanding applications for GM status ( including the nine unfortunate schools given preliminary approval to go ahead in September ) , and could reduce the existing schools ' funding and capital for building improvements . |
| 29 | Implexion eventually gave in to the Grand Masters ' begging and pleading and , for a fee , agreed to present Valiance 's case to the Chamber of Ten . |
| 30 | The Rolling Stones ' guitarist and his five-piece band The X-Pensive Winos play London Town & Country Club on December 17 . |