Example sentences of "of the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Although hailed by the leaders of the Catholic revival as their patron , ‘ the good Earl John ’ ( as he was known by them ) retained something of the recusant Catholic families ' suspicion of ‘ enthusiasm ’ , religious fervour , and triumphalism . |
2 | From 1899 , the intention of the clergy to assume and maintain absolute control of their schools led a number of them to refuse to appoint members of the Irish National Teachers ' Organization so as to avoid trade union interference . |
3 | It plays a key role in keeping city streets on the move and is even the object of the best modern designers ' desire . |
4 | It is of course difficult to measure such a discrepancy objectively , but it does seem that , for instance , some of the so-called' irreversible binomials ' such as fish and chips are less opaque than , say , blackbird , even though both contain only full semantic indicators . |
5 | When the Stock Exchange opened the FT-SE index of the 100 largest companies ' shares jumped by more than 130 points and peaked at lunchtime with a 151-point rise . |
6 | Some biographers have suggested that the reason was that the presence of Mrs Taylor , presiding over one of the great English bishops ' palaces , would have been an embarrassing reminder of the frailty of her natural father , the Royal Martyr . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | In order to gain a deeper insight into the emergence of socialist realism in interwar France , it is clearly necessary to examine the significance of the 1934 Soviet Writers ' Congress during which the new literary ideology was officially consecrated . |
9 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
10 | Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ . |
11 | At Chantilly , news of the first two days ' fighting had not particularly upset General Joffre . |
12 | Ned Cathery , in his first report as general secretary of the new National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland gave the date of its formation as 26 November 1894 at a gathering of the union 's most loyal supporters at the Wade Arms in Poplar . |
13 | That would not be welcomed by NASDAQ , the quote-driven over-the-counter market that has usurped much of the two older exchanges ' business . |
14 | In contrast to Pilkingtons , vital conceptual ingredients of the other two firms ' change initiatives were derived from organizational links with multinational corporations . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
17 | Although more recent documents have been produced , a study of the main political parties ' policies on tax , the social security system and poverty during the 1987 General Election campaign summarises clearly the different strands of opinion expressed during the 1980s . |
18 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
19 | The day before his election Kim had presided over the 18th plenary session of the sixth Korean Workers ' Party central committee which approved the appointment of Choe Kwang and Han Song Yong to the politburo . |
20 | Sheringham was the scene of the famous ‘ what train ? ’ incident involving Joyce Wethered in the final of the 1920 English Ladies ' Championship ; Cromer witnessed the conception of the Curtis Cup when a British ladies ' team first met the Americans there in 1905 . |
21 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |
22 | Among the numerous incidents reported involving the guerrillas of the separatist Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) and the Turkish army was a gun-battle near the border with Iraq on May 15 in which a total of 63 combatants from both sides were killed . |
23 | It became a mere echo of the old governing classes ' opinions . |
24 | The national board of the Independent Smallholders Party ( FKgP ) , a member of the governing coalition , withdrew the party mandate from two government ministers , Gyula Kiss , Labour Minister , who was accused of concealing former membership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) , and Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , Minister without Portfolio , and two state secretaries as of Nov. 1 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The political damage that may be done to governments by industrial conflict may be illustrated by the fall of the Heath government in the course of the 1973–4 British miners ' strike . |
27 | Alex Stanley , general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers ' Association , said : ‘ There will obviously be an adverse reaction from staff who find it impossible to stop . |
28 | The connection of deafness with the Dukes of Devonshire persists to this day : the 11th Duke is Patron of the National Deaf Children 's Society , and also of the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby . |
29 | Margaret Kennedy , coordinator of the National Deaf Children 's Society Keep Deaf Children Safe campaign , said : ‘ There are 360 000 children with disabilities in the UK . |
30 | Apart from himself , " only one man turned up — Frank Foley by name and I enrolled Foley as a member after I had enrolled myself , so that there were then two members of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain " . |