Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The imposing historic Seamen 's Hospital in Whitby 's Church Street , which dates back to 1670 , is to undergo a renovation scheme . |
2 | Hopkins refers to a German seamen 's manifesto of March 1917 , " with its impudent assertion that , apart from a few " isolated mistakes " U-boat warfare had been conducted with respect for human and humane principles " . |
3 | The Scottish Seamen 's Union , originally claimed to have 1,000 members , lost support so rapidly that it survived for no more than two months . |
4 | Some forms of the second genus were apparently more difficult for the trade union movement to identify , one of these being that created in 1872 by William Paterson Lind , Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London , as the London Seamen 's Mutual Protection Society , later known as the Amalgamate British Seamen 's Protection Society . |
5 | Not sons and fathers and grandfathers , but brothers every one — all the fruit of old Amos 's seed . |
6 | AN AGREEMENT on fishing quotas reached by EC ministers yesterday could push half of Scotland 's fleet to bankruptcy , Scottish Fishermen 's Federation chief executive , Mr Bob Allan , said . |
7 | An agreement by European Community ministers on fishing quotas could push half of Scotland 's fleet to bankruptcy , the Scottish Fishermen 's Federation has said . |
8 | My noble Friend the Scottish Fisheries Minister will meet the Scottish Fishermen 's Federation on 18 November . |
9 | Officials of the Scottish Fishermen 's Federation plan to lobby today 's crucial talks . |
10 | Bob Allan , chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen 's Federation , said he was bitterly disappointed at the outcome of the talks , which had failed to tackle the heart of the crisis facing the industry . |
11 | This weeks 's crackdown , codenamed Screwdriver . |
12 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
13 | Linda Wolfe is , apart from being a trained children 's nurse and midwife , a mother of three young children and two older step-children . |
14 | When this old men 's ideology starts to be transmitted into literature , and from literature into popular writings , and then into the press especially the gutter press and the mass media then it begins slowly to form the people . |
15 | The young people who have caught the madness of war are , in fact , prisoners of this old men 's mentality which has charmed them . |
16 | The old men 's dayroom was converted into a casualty reception station , where the injured were brought before going to the wards or the operating theatre . |
17 | Leaning against a recumbent Henry Moore , a group of English Sloanes , lanky people , all wearing old men 's panama hats regardless of sex , shared out the single bottle of champagne they had bought at the Duty Free and laughed loudly . |
18 | It is a notorious truth that this is an old men 's war . |
19 | A further children 's book on gardening is worth noting here , Let's Go Gardening by Ursula Kruger ( Lutterworth , February , £9.95 , 0 7188 2879 8 ) , though portions of it seem to be the work of Wiggle the Worm and Sunny the Sunflower Seed . |
20 | The EEG unit electro-encephalogram unit is one of the most advanced in a British children 's hospital . |
21 | Despite its lapses , British children 's television is the envy of the world . |
22 | It became an extremely successful series , done with Professor Chris Kiernan , with a special agenda for mentally-handicapped children but appearing like a rather glossy children 's comic . |
23 | The main competitions will be held on the Sunday together with a free children 's event . |
24 | Free children 's mini-club ( 2–11 years ) open all day ; paddling pools and large adventure playground . |
25 | And , every month , we send members the free Children 's Book of the Month Club magazine . |
26 | The Mounted Police 's territory starts right there . ’ |
27 | From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address . |
28 | Tizard points to the fallacy of generalizing from these studies to the issue of day care , and is able to cite examples of American research evaluations which suggest that day care can actually be beneficial for some children 's development , and does not appear to impair children 's relationships with their parents . |
29 | During the toddler period some children 's awareness and motivation outstrips their co-ordination and so anger at not being able to get the doll 's arm into the jumper or the man into the fire engine can suddenly cause the child to scream in frustration and throw the toy across the room . |
30 | These topics may all be within some children 's experience . |