Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 2 | The exception is Singapore , where the catalysts ' effect will be reinforced by existing restrictions on traffic density , principally achieved through limiting the number of new car registrations . |
| 3 | CD is playing with the term ‘ pocket-borough ’ , used for a constituency where the electors ' votes were all corruptly controlled by some wealthy individual ( see BOROUGH , CLOSE ) . |
| 4 | Where the smokers ' end is . |
| 5 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 6 | A distinction was drawn between arbitrators and quasi-arbitrators in Panamena Europea Navigacion ( Compania Limitada ) v Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd ( J Russell & Co ) [ 1947 ] AC 428 , where the shipowners ' surveyor was to certify that repairs had been satisfactorily carried out . |
| 7 | Only where the multinationals ' power has been harnessed have substantial gains in income-elastic goods been achieved . |
| 8 | As a beginning , it illustrates the division , acceptable to Kerr , of England into two nations , both in its external appearance , where the servants ' quarters are reduced in size and in ornament , and in the detail of its plan : |
| 9 | According to Mr Akashi , ‘ one of the main differences between Cambodia and Angola [ where the losers ' repudiation of the election result has led to renewed civil war ] is Prince Sihanouk . ’ |
| 10 | In cities , where the seasons ' impact is dulled , the rituals of fertility seem to lose their meaning , but they continue , processing like scenes in a play before Tiresias , epitome of the sexual process , male and female trapped together , who has ‘ foresuffered all ’ . |
| 11 | Once again where the patients ' conditions are changing rapidly , in general , more time will be required . |
| 12 | A speaking decision was overturned in Johnston v Chestergate Hat Manufacturing Co Ltd [ 1915 ] 2 Ch 338 , where the auditors ' certificate showed that the amount due was calculated according to the wrong principle . |
| 13 | These include agreement on curbing the cost of terminals and equipment — where the contactors ' estimate is £382m higher than that of Eurotunnel . |
| 14 | Where a character is obviously working class , such as in ‘ It Takes Two to Tango ’ , where the heiress ' dancing partner is a bit of ‘ rough ’ , the dialogue is written as Cockney ! |
| 15 | This kind of drama for practice in expressing and communicating emotions is far removed from the functioning behaviour required in the game of drama , where the participants ' concentration is not on whether he or she is signalling an emotion but with getting on with solving whatever problem is to hand . |
| 16 | In an attempt to secure such a reduction , national guide-lines were issued in October 1990 , which identified a number of offence-specific factors that would justify a committal , but only where a magistrates ' court feels that its sentencing powers are insufficient . |
| 17 | This does not apply where a magistrates ' court declines to hear a case because it could be dealt with more conveniently in another court ( s94(2) ) . |
| 18 | Where a teachers ' class list has not yet been brought up to date for 1981/82 her list is enclosed with these notes . |
| 19 | Lower-class women who did not come into the black or immigrant categories would be expected to use the general waiting-room , rather than the ladies ' , which was largely the preserve of the well-dressed middle class . |
| 20 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 21 | ‘ What did the auditors think they were doing when they signed off the accounts ? ’ asked one shareholder , while another accused TR of acting more like ‘ the directors ' poodle ’ than the shareholders ' watchdog . |
| 22 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 23 | Control is vested in their hands rather than the shareholders ' . |
| 24 | In their response to the Houghton Report which preceded the Act in 1972 , BASW argued that the law should not allow parental responsibilities to be removed ( under Section 2 of the 1948 Act ) unless there were good reason to suppose that the local authority 's judgment of the child 's interests was better than the parents ' . |
| 25 | In most recorded ‘ adoptions ’ , the new fry were smaller than the parents ' own offspring . |
| 26 | Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves . |
| 27 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 28 | Increasingly these instructions are becoming more important in determining the power and flexibility of computers than the machines ' electronic parts or hardware . |
| 29 | It is now possible for a GIS to incorporate databases from many sources , while in the near future developments in networks will mean that remote access to databases at institutions other than the users ' own will become possible . |
| 30 | Their eyes were smaller than the males ' , sunk deep below forehead ridges of vine . |