Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the paper was selected by the BAIE to take part in a Federation of European Industrial Editors ' association competition . |
| 2 | In the fading days of the postwar consensus , under the Labour patriarchy of that civil servants ' union boss Jim Callaghan , Apocalypse seemed more viable than pleasure . |
| 3 | The phone of another leading miners ' union official was also allegedly tapped in the late 1970s , as was the phone of a shop steward at the Ford plant at Dagenham . |
| 4 | The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " . |
| 5 | The nuclear power plant at Dounreay , Scotland , is breaking regulations on the storage and disposal of radioactive waste , according to a former nuclear waste manager and head of British Nuclear Fuels ' environment protection group , Bob Burton . |
| 6 | The bizarre story of British academic institutions ' flattery of the Ceauşescus could be repeated many times over in other impeccably democratic countries . |
| 7 | Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do . |
| 8 | Most effort in promoting cooperatives as a means of increasing small farmers ' market power has been devoted to organising marketing and the provision of services . |
| 9 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 10 | The withdrawal of most full-time students ' entitlement to those benefits took place at a time when substantial additional resources were being made available to students through the education system . |