Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] ' union " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband died in 1909 but Mary Sumner continued to write and speak for the Mothers ' Union , taking a keen interest in all that was being done . |
| 2 | He was chosen to design a new building for the Congregationalists ' Union Chapel in Islington . |
| 3 | A spokesman for the Farmers ' Union of Wales , which has set up a farm and rural consultancy service , considered reports of widespread farm fraud ‘ greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 4 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
| 5 | In Allen v. Flood a dispute arose between the ironworkers ' union and woodworkers , the former objecting to certain work being done by the latter . |
| 6 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 7 | The London driver said he picked up the brothers at Grosvenor House Hotel after the Players ' Union awards dinner last Sunday . |
| 8 | " I think I 'm going to try and cut the grass , " Quentin Featherston said as he and Lavinia washed up the dishes after the Mothers ' Union tea-party , which had been even more trying than usual . |
| 9 | STAN MARTIN is assistant general secretary of the Musicians ' Union with responsibility for the media . |
| 10 | The best way to find a legal adviser is to ask musicians in other bands , write to the Law society or , if you are a member of the Musicians ' Union , request a list of music business lawyers from the union 's national office . |
| 11 | The defendants were members of the Musicians ' Union , a union with many coloured members , and they gave notice to the plaintiffs that members of the union would not be permitted to play at the ballroom so long as the colour bar was in operation . |
| 12 | Bless the members of the Mothers ' Union throughout the world unite us in prayer and worship , in love and service that , strengthened by your grace , we may seek to do your will through Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 13 | , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) ( 1853–1940 ) , artist and archaeologist , was born 14 October 1853 in Old Alresford , Hampshire , the youngest of three children and only son of the Revd George Henry Sumner , rector of Alresford and later bishop of Guildford , and his wife Mary Elizabeth Sumner [ q.v. ] , the founder of the Mothers ' Union and daughter of Thomas Heywood , a Liverpool banker . |
| 14 | , Mary Elizabeth ( 1828–1921 ) , founder of the Mothers ' Union , was born 31 December 1828 in Swinton , Manchester , the younger daughter and youngest of three children of Thomas Heywood , a Liverpool banker , and his wife Mary Elizabeth Barton . |
| 15 | She was an eloquent speaker , with a beautiful voice , and drew an enthusiastic response which was to lead to the official recognition of the Mothers ' Union as a diocesan , national , and international organization , with Mary Sumner as its leader . |
| 16 | [ Joyce Coombs , George and Mary Sumner : their Life and Times , 1965 ; Florence Mary Hill , Mission Unlimited , the History of the Mothers ' Union , 1988 ; archives of the Mothers ' Union . ] |
| 17 | [ Joyce Coombs , George and Mary Sumner : their Life and Times , 1965 ; Florence Mary Hill , Mission Unlimited , the History of the Mothers ' Union , 1988 ; archives of the Mothers ' Union . ] |
| 18 | Blue Ridge base … on a small patch of land owned by a member of the miners ' union , 40,000 people have called to offer their solidarity since last spring . |
| 19 | The local branches of the miners ' union set up soup kitchens , with much local help from butchers and shopkeepers . |
| 20 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 21 | The history of the Players ' Union has only intermittently been a struggle against wage and transfer controls . |
| 22 | The players called for the intervention of the players ' union and the Football League , who last week fined Barnet £50,000 for financial irregularities at a hearing marred by Flashman 's scuffles with photographers . |
| 23 | GORDON TAYLOR , boss of the players ' union , last night led the attack on FA chief Graham Kelly for his backing of Brentford striker Gary Blissett . |
| 24 | SHEFFIELD United forward Brian Marwood is being frozen out of football — because he 's boss of the players ' union . |
| 25 | It has the support of the farmworkers ' unions , not to mention soil technicians and mental-health professionals . |
| 26 | For it was as we have seen , in September 1833 , that the delegate conference of the Builders ' Union decided at Owen 's prompting to constitute the union as an organisation to run the building industry . |
| 27 | Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I . |
| 28 | The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church . |
| 29 | On Dec. 1 , 1989 , Anatoli Ananev , editor of the Writers ' Union journal Oktyabr , was dismissed for publishing a satirical article about Pushkin ( by the exiled writer Andrei Sinyavsky ) and a novel which criticized Lenin . |
| 30 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |