Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is Manager of the Royal Air Force Veteran 's Team , Veterans ' Representative of the Royal Air Force Athletic Association Executive Committee , Secretary of the Eastern Veterans ' Athletic Association and Distribution Manager of the Royal Air Force 's own Athletic magazine . |
| 2 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
| 3 | On April 27 it was reported that Russian Minister for Nationalities Valery Tishkov and Horst Waffenschmidt , German representative for immigration , had initialled a protocol on co-operation in the restoration of the Russian Germans ' autonomous republic on the Volga , which had been eliminated under Stalin in 1941 . |
| 4 | For Inspector Theo Dawson , head of the Metropolitan Police 's Vice Unit , violent pimps are a priority . |
| 5 | First , in the earlier period there were wide margins of discretion within an extremely informal mode of policing — the proverbial clip around the ear , or the dreaded flick of the Edwardian policemen 's rolled cape — which has been replaced by the more likely possibility of prosecution , or the issue of formal caution . |
| 6 | He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's crunch meeting of the Progressive Democrats ' parliamentary party was adjourned until tomorrow , when they may be left with little option but to quit the Reynolds government . |
| 8 | The fact that it was not expressly mentioned in the Council of the European Communities ' general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series , p. 7 ) makes no difference , since , useful as it is , the programme only contains guidelines and is not exhaustive . |
| 9 | The motion , which fell three votes short of the necessary 289 votes , was proposed by Philippe Vasseur ( UDF ) in protest against the government 's support for reform of the European Communities ' common agricultural policy [ see p. 38931 ] . |
| 10 | The essential problem of enquiring into what may be in other people 's minds has been captured by John Berger , who has made one of the most imaginative reconstructions of the European guest-workers ' social world . |
| 11 | A pro-forma statement of the combined companies ' net assets was £294m . |
| 12 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 13 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 14 | The Chief of the Armed Forces ' General Staff , Gen. José Valdivia Dueñas , had not been implicated , according to Fujimori , and would be reinstated in his post . |
| 15 | Recruitment of Compact students is part of the participating companies ' normal annual recruitment programmes . |
| 16 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
| 17 | This tale of personal resolution is saved from saccharine overkill by Byrne 's fine , tortured performance , the children 's refusal to be cute and an almost lyrical conjunction of the young boys ' hidden feelings of neglect and their father 's coming to terms with his bereavement . |
| 18 | On June 6-9 Albania hosted , for the first time , a meeting of the Balkan countries ' national commissions for UNESCO . |
| 19 | We 've got five pairs of the new ladies ' red suede Dance trainers from Matchstick , worth £24.99 , to give away — they come in black ( right ) and blue , too . |
| 20 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 21 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
| 22 | In the area of defence , the foremost claimant for government funds in time of war , the picture available of the two belligerents ' military machines , like that of their finances , is not always very clear . |
| 23 | The period of the two painters ' great intimacy and of their unique collaboration was about to begin . |
| 24 | The apocalyptic character of the two sides ' respective visions of what the other 's victory would mean offered graphic proof of their inability to coexist . |
| 25 | The course of the war between the Madrid stalemate and the beginning of 1938 clearly illustrates some of the two sides ' military strengths and weaknesses . |
| 26 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 27 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 28 | The fall of the tragic character into either a real ( that is , narrated ) death or a ( again , narrated ) living death will aid the disavowal , the catharsis , of the non-disabled audiences ' ever-present fear for the loss of their own ‘ able-bodiedness ’ . |
| 29 | Emerson 's task requires children to respond on the basis of the causal connectives ' secondary function of conveying information about temporal order . |
| 30 | The next meeting will be on the second of the 1991 Schools ' Open Days , Friday 26 April . |