Example sentences of "and [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 This attempt failed and the Rotonda served time as a hospital for contagious diseases and as the Milan hospitals ' laundry before becoming a permanent centre for exhibitions .
2 This suggestion fitted neatly with the BKA 's identification of Abu Elias as an associate of Hafez Dalkamoni , head of the PFLP — GC 's West Germany cell until the arrests of October 1988 , and with the Lockerbie investigators ' belief that Abu Elias took charge of the attack after that .
3 But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement .
4 As the Minister knows , we had our disagreements on the School Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Bill and on the School Teachers ' Pay and Conditions ( No. 2 ) Bill last year .
5 He was educated at local schools and at the Leeds Mechanics ' Institution and Literary Society , where he was a diligent student in drawing and mathematics .
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