Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They will examine the social importance of journalists ' work over the last 25 years , particularly with regards to the Troubles .
2 However , Paletz and his colleagues remain critical of the journalists ' over-reliance on official sources of information about the riot ( i.e. the mayor and chief of police ) which helped to frame the event as the successful police suppression of a naked spree of lawlessness .
3 Freedom of the press encompassed " journalists ' freedom of expression and of creation , access to sources of information , protection of independence and professional confidentiality , and the right to establish newspapers and other publications " .
4 Suddenly , I thought of St Bride 's , the journalists ' church in Fleet Street .
5 MP and broadcasting expert Roger Gale said : ‘ I think it just a cheap journalists ' trick on behalf of The Sun to try to score points over their rivals . ’
6 To avoid this routine ignominy , you need to turn the journalists ' boredom to your own advantage .
7 It was organised by the All-China Women 's Federation and All-China Journalists ' Association under the auspices of UNESCO .
8 Many drugs will be available over the counter instead of by doctor 's order only , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley told the Medical Journalists ' Association in London yesterday .
9 The journalists ' satisfaction at retribution on a man who sneered at Britain in her finest hour now sounds like delusive and individual rant .
10 Then Mellor carted his wife and young sons down to the Halls ' home in Upper Beeding , Sussex , for a stage-managed ‘ happy families ’ photo-call .
11 I believe it was a V2 which demolished the Guards ' chapel in Knightsbridge during a service , killing dozens of men .
12 That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too .
13 Sarah 's father , Major Ronald Ferguson , is Charles 's polo manager , so she was frequently at Smith 's Lawn , the Guards ' Club in Windsor Great Park , where Charles was based , and inevitably she and Diana often sat chatting while the Prince played polo .
14 " On Free and Latent Semantic Energy " , by Claes Schaar , is based on informants ' interpretation of fragments of language in isolation , such as literary quotations , maxims and sayings .
15 The Scots ' reputation for industry may be called into question if the results of a P-E International survey are to be believed
16 Secondly , we were struck by the Scots ' awareness of the beauty of their own culture and history , this well reflected in the music that they showed us .
17 The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ .
18 Thus only Taiwan from the Scots ' pool for the Murrayfield event will not be seen in the flesh , although Scotland 's sevens coaches , Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey , will doubtless seek videotape of the tournament in Sicily last summer from which the Taiwanese qualified .
19 THE Scottish National Party yesterday foreshadowed its campaign for next year 's European elections , in an effort to raise Scots ' confidence in going it alone as an independent nation .
20 It could be argued that the weights reflect the decision-makers ' theory of investment desirability , but what theory could rate NPV 333 per cent more important than process yield and ten times as important as basic R&D ?
21 But my barely-seared , griddled calves ' liver with beurre rouge was tender and perfect , and came with fat , greaseless chips .
22 Actual performance needed , however , to be evaluated against potential performance given the units ' position in the market at the beginning of the five-year period .
23 His architectural predilections were evident at the Royal Academy in 1850 , with compositions called Palladiana and the Works of Vignola and , at the time of his appointment as an assessor , he had just started his best known work , the Italianate Clothworkers ' Hall in the City of London ( 1856–60 ) .
24 At the expiry of his term he became free of the Clothworkers ' Company on 7 August 1771 .
25 He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) .
26 If others copy it , insurers ' loss of competitiveness will be short-lived .
27 Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums .
28 Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ?
29 Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions .
30 Given that the appalling tragedy in the Horn of Africa will not end until there is peace , and given the changes in the pattern of the United Nations ' work in recent years , which our Government have so actively supported , does the Minister think that we are now reaching a stage where British troops could be deployed under a United Nations banner in humanitarian action as a precursor to effective aid ?
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