Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] 's [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the seamen 's leaders freely admitted that a national union was the right thing , they also declared that it could not be done . |
| 2 | A Captain Beechey , sent by the newly established Marine Department of the Board of Trade to discuss their grievances and explain the Act had some difficulty in convincing his audience that Shipping Officers were intended to be the seamen 's friends , and that the Register Ticket , far from being a " badge of slavery " , gave them advantages . |
| 3 | The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city . |
| 4 | The early history of the inhabitants of the Row can be pieced together in a limited fashion from leases and from entries in the freemen 's registers . |
| 5 | Deputy editor Matthew Symonds said the only way the move could be economic was if one of The Times 's rivals was forced out of business . |
| 6 | The Pyloriset Latex ( Orion Diagnostica , Finland ) and the Helico-G ( Porton Cambridge , Maidenhead , UK ) tests were carried out according to the manufacturers 's instructions and ad recently described . |
| 7 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 8 | They had even witnessed the confiscation of the clergy 's goods and chattels to defray the nation 's expenses : a potent lesson for the future . |
| 9 | Although the presence of the proctors was probably in order to assent to the lay taxes which fell upon the clergy 's temporalities , from 1341 at least they were no longer required to attend ; they were still summoned , but their absence from parliament was not deemed prejudicial to the king , no doubt because it could no longer delay or frustrate clerical taxation which was now in the hands of another body . |
| 10 | The founder of Tiron , preaching celibacy in Normandy about 1100 , was nearly lynched by the clergy 's wives , as had been the archbishop of Rouen , no less , when promulgating a decree against them in 1072 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 12 | The management of S.C.F. 's not inconsiderable fleet of vehicles is of relatively high importance in considering the financial and physical performance of the Funds 's activities in Africa . |
| 13 | He would send notices of the book to his old school magazine and quietly pin up adverts for it in all the gentlemen 's clubs in London . |
| 14 | The gentlemen 's titles did not appear on the hand-painted signs at the foot of the staircase ; in certain other Oxford colleges such practices were countenanced ; not , Mr Bullins thought proudly , in Magdalen , which , in his opinion , was not only the most beautiful college in Oxford but also the only one of any consequence . |
| 15 | Example 2:15 Easement to use sanitary facilities The right in common with the other tenants of the building to use the ladies ' lavatories and washrooms on the floor of the building and the gentlemen 's lavatories and washroom on the floor of the building |
| 16 | But the craftsmen 's talents were crippled by unemployment , while high taxation on the former governing classes made it difficult for them to commission buildings or goods of a quality acceptable to Lutyens and his contemporaries . |
| 17 | The spirit of true craftsmanship is , however , best seen in those items which , as far as is known , were unique in their time and which required all the craftsmen 's skills to achieve . |
| 18 | Before this trial took place , " The Independent " came into possession of the manuscript of " spycatcher " and published a much more detailed account of the books 's contents . |
| 19 | Vice-chairman Geoffrey White said that the showmen 's vans on the western end of the site should be cleared by April next year . |
| 20 | It involves injecting the substance into the mice 's lungs , a treatment which could not be used on humans . |
| 21 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 22 | His eyes wandered from object to object ; the facades of the buildings with their dark , secretive entrances , the boats again , the glitter of the restless water , the fishermen 's lights out in the middle of the stream , the faces of the other people taking their evening stroll . |
| 23 | The Shetland MP , Jim Wallace , is also looking into the fishermen 's claims . |
| 24 | The first inspiration for Sea Change came from the attraction which the sea and the fishermen 's lives exercised on the choreographer during his holiday at Cassis in 1947 . |
| 25 | The Deputy Under Secretary headed the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom , and that was not a subject matter for gossip and conversation on a bougainvillaea-fringed veranda as the lights of the fishermen 's dug-outs floated inside the coral reef … |
| 26 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
| 27 | It is unrealistic to expect that accounts can contain ‘ full ’ provisions for the Businesses 's liabilities . |
| 28 | Since no violence is involved , others do not suffer from the satyāgrahi 's mistakes , only the satyāgrahi himself . |
| 29 | It sports an instructor in kabuki , and much seems Japanese : the costumes , the men 's top-knots and a fair part of the staging seem to come from Kurosawa . |
| 30 | The men 's footfalls were muted — jungle boots on concrete . |