Example sentences of "[num] the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |
| 2 | In September 1986 the Leaders ' Meeting , by a majority vote , decided to use the book ‘ Hymns and Psalms ’ in place of ‘ The Methodist Hymn Book ’ . |
| 3 | In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest . |
| 4 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |
| 5 | In July 1991 the Ledingham-Smiths ' Trustee in Bankruptcy sought repayment of £16,000 , made up of four monthly payments of £1,000 within the relevant period of six months and the three payments of £4,000 . |
| 6 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
| 7 | 10 THE games ' catchy tunes have become pop hits . |
| 8 | On Dec. 10 the Drivers ' Union of Romania went on strike , demanding the resignation of President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Petre Roman . |
| 9 | The idea re-emerged in 1972 but was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under . |
| 10 | Central heating was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under . |
| 11 | In May 1908 the Girls ' Work Meeting was able to give the proceeds of a sale of work ( £25 ) to the church . |
| 12 | In 1981 the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Call-slip analysis and book condition survey . |
| 13 | 4 All entries will be judged by a panel of judges appointed by Haymarket Motoring Publications Ltd. 5 The judges ' decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into . |
| 14 | On Aug. 5 the soldiers ' independent " trade union " Shchit ( " Shield " ) accused the KGB of involvement , a charge denied by the KGB . |
| 15 | On April 10 , the Press Council declared that the proposed changes were reminiscent of the 1925 Takrir-e Sukun ( law of silence ) and " were in no way relevant to 1990s Turkey " , while on April 11 the Journalists ' Association accused the government of wanting to " destroy the right of reporting altogether " . |
| 16 | At the end of key stage 3 the pupils ' response should be mainly in written form but may include some oral work . |
| 17 | France .......... 27 Home Unions XV .. 29 THE LIONS ' claws have not been drawn by the two months they have had apart since Australia . |
| 18 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 19 | In January 1987 The Smiths ' planned single release , ‘ You Have n't Earned It Yet Baby ’ , a rather spiteful song with a catchy hookline , was switched to ‘ Shoplifters Of The World Unite ’ . |
| 20 | One by one the Parsons ' former friends and acquaintances found reasons not to accept our invitations , and although they claimed to be anxious that we should ‘ get together some time ’ , that time never came . |
| 21 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 22 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
| 23 | In 1901 the Congregationalists ' Western and Hackney Colleges had only fourteen and twenty-one students respectively while the Baptists ' Nottingham and Bristol colleges had only eleven and twenty-one . |
| 24 | Its early locomotives were unreliable , and in 1827 the owners ' committee authorized Hackworth to build a new one to his own design . |
| 25 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 26 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 27 | Whatever the truth may be , it seems certain that for the decade 1900 to 1910 the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union had little impact upon the living standards of its members on British ships . |
| 28 | After 1910 the workers ' movement regathered momentum , and from 1912 the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes , ever more political in motivation and ever more directly under Bolshevik leadership , culminating in a general strike in St Petersburg on the very eve of the war . |
| 29 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 30 | Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation . |