Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself .
2 Streamlined trams provided separate drivers ' cabs , 1930s .
3 Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy .
4 The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death .
5 They visited two booksellers ' shops , looking for a volume of poems by the Aberdonian Latin poet , Arthur Johnson , who had been Principal of the Marischal College .
6 Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ .
7 He and the others got six months ' hard labour — the repression in 1835 was much gentler than in 1830 because the problem was so limited .
8 They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong .
9 Neither party offered a workable plan to rescue Serbia 's crumbling economy , but the SPS attracted strong workers ' support by promising continued full employment .
10 On 18 October , therefore , the British government turned down the new fare proposals from American operators , while the CAA rejected British Airways ' request .
11 The first stage of this research , now completed , explored social workers ' reactions to this method of assessment .
12 Equally , we noted some heads ' resistance to developing their own professional understanding and their failure to engage with current educational issues .
13 In the first sentencing in the Milan affair , Mario Chiesa , the ( Socialist ) administrator of a Milan old people 's home , received six years ' imprisonment on Nov. 29 for embezzling L 6,000 million , some of which went to party funds .
14 Identified by police witnesses as the ‘ Somers Town Boys ’ , the two youths charged with assault received six weeks ' hard labour and a month 's hard labour .
15 This surplus lifted disclosed shareholders ' funds to HK$52.7 billion .
16 When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios .
17 In late 1925 he was one of twelve leading communists arrested and tried on charges of sedition and incitement to mutiny , for which he received twelve months ' imprisonment .
18 Carl Aarvold , later a judge , scored two Lions ' tries and Doug Prentice , later secretary of the Rugby Union , converted them .
19 Following the talks a joint communiqué reiterated both governments ' adherence to the protocol signed in Damascus in August 1987 , and in addition Turkey committed itself to releasing more than the current 500 cubic metres of water a second to Syria .
20 A fishing agreement was considered necessary by February 1991 , when the squid fishing season began , because the squid fishing grounds straddled both countries ' fishing zones .
21 In 1987 an unpublished report , known as SHARPEN ( Scottish Health Authorities Review of Priorities for the Eighties and Nineties ) , pointed out the deficiency of local authority provision for mentally ill people and noted local authorities ' particular responsibilities under the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 .
22 Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed .
23 I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation .
24 When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre .
25 On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true .
26 With its proposal for the granting of a maximum of three days consecutive holiday , it actually worsened some workers ' conditions .
27 Fears about the conjunction of ‘ race ’ and sex shaped these films ' interrogation of White female sexuality in the years immediately following the last major wave of Black settlers in the mid to late 1950s .
28 It also welcomed these republics ' affirmation of " their readiness to respect the international commitments of the Soviet Union and to ensure single control of nuclear weapons on their territory " [ see p. 38655 ] .
29 Curt Rohland , the president of the National Family Farm Coalition , said that the GAO report confirmed many farmers ' views that treating cows with a synthetic hormone puts the animals under greater stress , making them more vulnerable to infection , and hence leading to an increased use of antibiotics .
30 He acknowledged black workers ' longstanding campaign for a " living wage " and for fair labour legislation .
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