Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the Halls ' major income in 1992 has come not from audiences but from recording companies . |
| 2 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 3 | Before November 9 , the visitor to the derelict Potsdamer Platz , where no trams run on the ancient tramlines which now lead nowhere , could mount the viewing platform by the tourist kiosks on the western side and peer across the Grepo border guards ' free fire zone at the drab buildings a quarter of a mile away in the east . |
| 4 | Second , the study will collect detailed information about informants ' economic life experiences and their own perceptions of those experiences — in paid work and out of it ; with regard to housing and use of public and private welfare provision ; in respect of household finance and domestic ‘ divisions of labour ’ . |
| 5 | That the standard of the Fiji tournament — which according to such a seasoned sevens campaigner as the Scots ' assistant coach , John Jeffrey , reached unprecedented highs — was beyond question . |
| 6 | It was to last throughout the 1540s , and then go into abeyance , lying dormant — despite Mary Queen of Scots ' burning awareness of her position as Elizabeth 's heir presumptive — until it had to be faced again , when James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603 . |
| 7 | The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play . |
| 8 | Chelsea-bound Kharin was due to make his farewell appearance for CSKA Moscow in the Scots ' second match of the champions ' league in Bochum . |
| 9 | The Scots ' encircling assault , however spectacular , was not likely to break that tight formation and overwhelm the enemy . |
| 10 | Kenny Milne is far and away the Scots ' best hooker and his injury robbed them of a great deal in both tests . |
| 11 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 12 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 13 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 14 | Figure 1 shows the Units ' administrative structure . |
| 15 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 16 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 17 | After a year or two down in Kent , Northern Arts ' erstwhile Literature Officer , Jenny Attala , comes back to the region as Principal Officer in the Published and Broadcast Arts Department . |
| 18 | The current commissioner , Luis Cancel , disputes that version of events , and pledges to place the arts ' economic role at the center of an effort to secure more funding or at least resist further budget cuts . |
| 19 | And perhaps this is the Arts ' greatest contribution to the education of the child ; it helps him develop character and personality . |
| 20 | More important , in practice , but still faulty were the ratios applied by credit-rating firms in deciding how to grade insurers ' claims-paying ability . |
| 21 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 22 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 23 | Others are interested in storming insurers ' broader domain . |
| 24 | SADDAM Hussein last night threatened revenge after American pilots shot down an Iraqi jet inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone . |
| 25 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 26 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 27 | And with Mobuto due to address the United Nations ' General Assembly , the locale could n't have been better . |
| 28 | Romania had not in fact recorded a vote on the crucial resolution on 14 January in the United Nations ' General Assembly on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan . |
| 29 | It is now 16 years since I wrote a book , The Poor of the Earth , to popularise one of the huge international conferences that were common during the seventies , the United Nations ' Second Development Decade . |
| 30 | I am sure that the House will agree that the United Nations ' enhanced role in the issues that the Prime Minister has mentioned will be most welcome . |