Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can imagine at the convention the bias was very much towards preserving states ' independence . |
| 2 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 3 | From the G M B point of view , of course , we have quite a sporting section and we 're proud to have this link er , with both of the organizations and we 're pleased to have been of some assistance to the er , British Boxers ' Asso Professional Boxers ' Association er , in er , this launch and establishment we felt , because we 've got the Scottish professional footballers , who are well established and er , are very much an integral part of the G M B and we 've got the Northern Ireland er , footballers , we 've got the rugby players and we 've got speedway riders all of which come under . |
| 4 | Can I , on behalf of er , the G M B , Barry erm , make a presen presentation to you This is the er , first er , picture that was taken at the launch of the Professional Boxers ' Association . |
| 5 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
| 6 | But very , very quickly erm , I 'm actually delighted that this organization has helped breathe the life into not only the Professional Boxers ' Association , we are extremely grateful . |
| 7 | Targets would now be more specific , equipment more deadly , and the whole Combined Operations ' set-up run like a taut ship in the fashion of the destroyer HMS Kelly , which the CCO had sunk beneath him off Crete earlier that year . |
| 8 | In June the FNTT , under the pressure of rising rural unemployment and employer intransigence , called an agricultural labourers ' strike , the swift collapse of which dealt a serious blow to the entire UGT . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | • Suitable for use in conjunction with European Profiles ' Insulation systems , thus providing leak proof membrane combined with insulation to meet current Building Regulations . |
| 11 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 12 | Carefully graded material providing an ideal accompaniment to any junior beginners ' course . |
| 13 | By the summer of 1869 Napoleon III 's position , in terms of the European states ' system , was therefore one of military and diplomatic weakness . |
| 14 | There was a confrontation on Oct. 24 over the Azerbaijani authorities ' decision to appoint Siavush Mustafayev as the new Interior Minister of the autonomous republic of Nakhichevan . |
| 15 | ( 13 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg , wife of the Secretary of Labour , paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
| 16 | ( 37 ) Mrs Arthur Goldberg … paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists ' Gallery in the District of Columbia . |
| 17 | They have features , particularly chaotic polymorphisms , similar to those seen for the spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma . |
| 18 | FIG. 1 The spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma can generate a large variety of qualitatively different patterns , depending on the magnitude of the parameter , b , which represents the advantage for defectors . |
| 19 | Political prisoners ' hunger strike |
| 20 | The political prisoners ' section is a three-storey building with access to a small patio . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't think of anything more callous , ’ said Jim McDonald , chairman of the Loyalist Prisoners ' Welfare Association . |
| 22 | But the Loyalist Prisoners ' Welfare Association chairman , Jim McDonald , accused the prison authorities of turning a peaceful protest into ‘ bloody carnage . ’ |
| 23 | His early choice of subject set the tone for his later work — — Goya 's Queen Maria Luisa , and Velázquez 's portrait of the dwarf Francisco Lezcano ( Fig. 3 ) — in other words , great Spanish artists ' handling of their arrogant , ugly , bizarre or idiotic sitters . |
| 24 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 25 | At a time when the company was obliged to draw on its total shareholders ' equity to pay its ( reduced ) dividend , the installation of a new mainframe computer system linked to New York ( and horribly slow to use according to London experts ) accounted for a sizeable percentage of last year 's $7 million auction operating costs . |
| 26 | European cities ' action on traffic pollution |
| 27 | Part of the evidence here comes from genetic analyses ( e.g. twin comparisons ) of normal subjects ' performance on ‘ creativity ’ tests . |
| 28 | Mahmood 's rival candidacy for the Walton seat had angered the Labour Party leadership , which had sought to eliminate the unofficial left-wing Labour supporters ' group Militant Tendency with which she was associated . |
| 29 | It was a veritable hornets ' nest ! |
| 30 | 10 March , receives support from the fieldsportsmen , the same people who in hunting counties , encourage foxes to bred in artificial earths , thus producing an increase in foxes which is a contributory factor in the decline of the hare ( being 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the rural foxes ' diet ) ! |