Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ['s] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | NUAAW dates from 1906 when , in response to political victimization and tied cottage evictions in Norfolk , the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers ' and Small Holders ' Union was founded in North Walsham . |
| 2 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 3 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 4 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 5 | to have established and improved Widows ' and Orphans ' Funds in the Banks ; |
| 6 | The conference was attended by 60 people ; over half the delegates being Napier University staff and the reminder being representatives from other Scottish HEI 's and community organisations . |
| 7 | The outline syllabus for Standard Grade Modern Studies states that " the most appropriate knowledge to be taught ( will be the ) understanding of a group of interrelated concepts 's and in creating the datafiles for Modem Studies , this statement has formed the basis of keyword access and the learning of information skills for retrieving information using the microcomputer system . |
| 8 | In his early fifties he took up flying , gaining both French Aviators ' and Royal Aero Club certificates . |
| 9 | In listing the various problems faced by 5 Corps , Macmillan includes " Dealing with the White Russians and Cossacks , together with their wives and families , serving in these German forces ' and " Dealing with Ustachis , Chetniks and other Yugoslav refugees , deciding which , if any , are to be handed over to the Tito troops etc " . |
| 10 | Our luxury three-screen complex shows a range of popular children 's and adult films in the afternoons and evenings plus specially selected children 's movies every Saturday morning at 9.30 . |
| 11 | Foreign ministers ' and NACC meetings |
| 12 | His name was Joseph Havelock Wilson , the year was 1887 and he made clear his ambition by grandiosely entitling his new organisation the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Whether anything at all had been salvaged out of the wreck of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was still questionable . |
| 15 | The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was held , as would normally have been expected , at the end of October 1894 in a mood of retrenchment and with threats from Wilson , now designated general president , and Robert McBride , recently created general secretary , that they would no longer tolerate " the underhand and carping pettiness of branch officials " and their " present lax and disorderly method of conducting the business of the union " and would resign if the situation did not improve . |
| 16 | " One summer 's morning in 1894 the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was wound up ; its leaders then adjourned for lunch and a drink , re-entering the building in the afternoon to start a new union under a slightly different name " . |
| 17 | Some , like the Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , of which only a single item of evidence remains , appears to have had friendly relations with the National Sailors and Firemen . |
| 18 | He almost immediately led a breakaway of members into a Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union at a wage of £pound2 a week and made common cause with Alderman " Tommy " Lewis , who had already led a similar breakaway in Southampton to form the British Seafarers ' Union with which Shinwell 's union merged . |
| 19 | The training officer of one licensed dealer taught the Stock Exchange Licensed Representatives ' and Traders ' Examination in the evenings to dealers who had to be pushed into attending his classes , like unwilling schoolboys . |
| 20 | Proponents of this view tend to see the idea of parental possession as one that is still protected and upheld by the law and by social agencies ; and they believe this state of affairs to be damaging to children , given that parents ' and children 's interests sometimes conflict . |
| 21 | a ) Individual solicitors ' and solicitors firms in private practice ; |
| 22 | The other major offence is drunken driving , an offence bristling with technicalities which carries a maximum prison sentence of six months ' and a minimum period twelve months ' disqualification from driving . |
| 23 | But what are these " early dayes ' and who is the " I " of the utterance ? |
| 24 | Rodolfo Salas , a leading member of the illegal Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist , on May 14 was convicted of rebellion and sentenced to six years ' and a day in prison ; Salas had been arrested in 1986 [ see p. 34872 ] . |
| 25 | Rabkrin ( the Central Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ) calculated that at the start of 1923 from 20 to 26 per cent of all village Soviet business lay in this sphere , whereas cultural and commune activities took up only 5 to 10 per cent of their time . |
| 26 | Partnership is a more recent concept and it would not fit in too well with the motivations which inspired early industrialists ' and educationalists ' interest in further and higher education . |
| 27 | It was unclear whether the restoration would be recognized as constitutionally valid by the USSR authorities by their giving the Crimea a seat on the Federation Council ( a recent spate of autonomous regions ' and districts ' unilaterally proclaiming themselves ASSRs , and indeed of ASSRs ' proclaiming themselves full republics , had so far gone unrecognized — see pp. 37664 ; 37788 ) . |
| 28 | Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event . |
| 29 | It had been planned as a separate men 's and women 's race , with the latter being sent off 20 minutes earlier , but only Dorre managed to stick to the plan , winning in 2hr 29min 38sec . |
| 30 | Whereas the men 's and women 's toilets in large American stations usually led off the separate men 's and women 's waiting-rooms , no such delicacy prevailed for the Blacks . |