Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 2 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , social workers are very hesitant to use this section and patients do , albeit rather infrequently , continue to deteriorate in the community because of their nearest relatives ' wishes . |
| 4 | Two organisations which we visited further emphasised the " non-regularity " of their temporary workers ' employment by not guaranteeing them any fixed number of hours per week — they were contracted to work " as and when required " — and this , of course , provided them with an important , additional source of flexibility . |
| 5 | Perhaps the rail planners could take a leaf out of their Victorian predecessors ' books . |
| 6 | Then there are those raised in a hothouse of their own parents ' ambitions . |
| 7 | Pupils ' gift : Pupils at Grangefield School , Stockton presented North Tees General Hospital in Stockton , with a £10,000 cheque for closed circuit TV as part of their Safe Babies ' Appeal . |
| 8 | A committee member may be removed by resolution of the creditors at a meeting of which fourteen days ' notice has been given ( r 6.159 ) . |
| 9 | Not only did he immediately assume overall direction of the battle , organizing his forces and ever-increasing artillery power , but he at once ordered the reoccupation and rearming of the outlying forts , to each of which two weeks ' supply of food and water for every man was dispatched . |
| 10 | Through an explosive expansion , especially in southern Spain , of its rural labourers ' section , the FNTT ( National Landworkers Federation ) , the UGT was suddenly transformed from an organization consisting primarily of skilled urban workers into one decisively influenced by the worst-off members of the agricultural labour force . |
| 11 | Tommy Armour is proud of its top-of-the-range ladies ' clubs , the 845s Silver Scot , and having tried a set I can understand why . |
| 12 | On Saturday and Sunday October 17 and 18 the Railway will stage another of its popular Enthusiasts ' Weekends . |
| 13 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 14 | ( iii ) That each site would be responsible for the accuracy of its own employees ' data and to this end input would be via local VDU 's from each site and output would be displayed or printed locally at each main site . |
| 15 | In December it was arranged , without his knowledge , that Mr M would lose two of his four days ' teaching in the outer isles at the end of the academic year . |
| 16 | Over the last fraction of his 34 years ' experience in the hobby , Chris has dispensed with all the traditional off the shelf treatments and remedies for fish and has turned to ‘ natural medicine ’ , centred mainly around the use of herbs — with great success . |
| 17 | The sisters , who had all married well , were unconcerned that Angel , with only 200 acres of grazing land in the middle of his rich cousins ' estates , had been left to pay his father 's debts . |
| 18 | It is assumed that , having married an Englishwoman , he returned to France in December 1788 at the end of his six months ' leave . |
| 19 | Sir Peter , currently the British Army 's most decorated serving officer , has spent no less than 20 of his 38 years ' service in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker . |
| 20 | Following the emphatic victory of his United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) in the April 27 general election [ see p. 38859 ] , Prime Minister John Compton appointed a new Cabinet on May 4 , which contained five new ministers , including Lorraine Williams , the first woman to hold the post of Attorney General . |
| 21 | Stakis Hotels recently presented Stakis Highland Lodges ' Peter McIntosh with a £1,000 travel voucher and a gold and diamond pin in recognition of his 25 years ' service . |
| 22 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 23 | The third set of presentation materials could be examples of your own pupils ' work which show how the aims and objectives of history teaching have changed considerably since the 1960s and 1970s . |