Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 2 | However in the present case the defendants ' contractual entitlement corresponds , in our view , to the indemnity basis set out in sub-rule ( 2 ) . |
| 3 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 4 | However , for the most part the fundholders ' business plans indicated that they planned to make savings in the prescribing element of their budgets rather than in hospital services . |
| 5 | In contrast the Situationists ' notion of pleasure is a negation of work in almost every sense of the word — a kind of involuntary idleness in the land of Cockaigne . |
| 6 | In contrast the Barbarians ' tries owed everything to thrilling running , crisp passing and a surprisingly high level of understanding between what was a hugely-talented collection of players , but nevertheless a scratch side . |
| 7 | On the morning of the election the parties ' colours , in the two horse race , were much in evidence . |
| 8 | In the 1950 election the Tories ' share of the vote recovered significantly , with Labour losing support among the middle classes of the southern suburbs in particular , although the Labour Party could still rely on enthusiastic working class support ( the turnout at the 1950 election was the highest ever ) . |
| 9 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 10 | In the stand the Directors ' Box emptied quickly but two men , sitting together , did not join in the rapid movement towards the Board Room . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State took on board the consultants ' recommendations and , in November 1988 , sanctioned the extension of MDC 's boundaries . |
| 12 | Similarly , when one reads the dedication of The Problem of Pain — 'to the Inklings ' — one understands some of its short-cuts , as well as some of its more peculiar turns of phrase ( e.g. of the Incarnation — ‘ It has the master touch — the rough , male taste of reality . |
| 13 | Of course the supermarkets ' aim is to make fat profits and they are not really in the business of doing their customers favours . |
| 14 | I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters ' Club give for raffle prizes . |
| 15 | The ones selected for each disc present the artists ' finest performances and these are only transferred from high quality original pressings . |
| 16 | Chancellor Norman Lamont was also slammed by the Labour leader for the damage the Tories ' ‘ heartless and mindless ’ policies had done . |
| 17 | As a result the casings ' ’ open area ’ is increased a hundredfold , allowing more water in and , because the slots are much narrower , keeping more grit out . |
| 18 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 19 | For example , in this study the patients ' sex and the length of time since diagnosis were both significantly associated with glycaemic control , as were the treatment group and number of diabetes related events in the previous 10 years . |
| 20 | Despite colonial rule the islands ' distinctive craft techniques survived , particularly a liking for work inlaid with mother-of-pearl . |
| 21 | In the extract below they refer to the effect the teachers ' attitudes have on their behaviour and on the way prejudices appear to match their gradations of colour : |
| 22 | In essence the courts ' control over the conditions of jurisdiction is premised upon the assumption that they are thereby effectuating the will of Parliament ; they are ensuring that the tribunal or authority remains within the boundaries of what Parliament intended it to examine by ensuring that those conditions are present . |
| 23 | The main body of the investors was , of course , the Pioneers ' Society ; and it was primarily in intention and practice a consumers ' co-operative . |
| 24 | In the longer term an owners ' association may wish to take over these activities from the management company , and some thought needs to be given to making this possible . |
| 25 | No wonder the Socialists ' manifesto offers measures to reduce unemployment , invest Ptas500 billion ( $1 billion ) in training over the next four years , and build 500,000 new houses . |
| 26 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 27 | Justin 's pupil Tatian from Mesopotamia developed with a sarcastic pen the philosophers ' dependence on Moses , which he argued with elaborate synchronisms from ancient chroniclers proving the priority of Moses . |
| 28 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 29 | Mr used to open up his dragons and start his steam engine and driving the organ , and he used to give an organ recital every wakes ' Sunday night for the cot fund . |
| 30 | As an initial reaction the girls ' parents might have been shocked by what they got up to . |