Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] ['s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with a budget of over £1 million , governors should realise that almost all is firmly committed from day one , particularly for the teachers ' and ancillary-staff salaries . |
| 2 | Jimmy Spriggs , senior steward for the engineers ' and electricians ' union , said : ‘ We do n't have any guarantee at all and we want urgent talks with Mr Bleck . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence . |
| 4 | As the men 's and the women 's changing rooms are next to each other , we continued chatting to one another through the communicating door . |
| 5 | The concordance between the teams ' and the research diagnoses and between these and the AGECAT classification is expressed here in terms of percentage agreement , specificity , sensitivity , and the kappa ( κ ) and Yule statistics . |
| 6 | Differences between the girls ' and boys ' groups were marked chiefly by the extent to which they represented themselves as involved readers . |
| 7 | Indeed , much of the benefit of this type of comparative stylistics is that it foregrounds the discrepancies between the students ' and the original versions , thereby highlighting the peculiar characteristics of the latter . |
| 8 | The indexer has access to schedules that the searcher in general does not have available online or even in printed form ; thus there is likely to be a mismatch between the indexers ' and searchers ' perspectives . |
| 9 | Talks on a merger between the polytechnics ' and the universities ' admissions systems now seem to be in trouble , and many students will be left unsure how to go about applying to the new universities . |
| 10 | They are prepared to rate the parties ' campaigns in the style of drama critics reviewing theatrical performances , at the same time forming separate judgments about the parties ' and leaders ' ability to govern . |
| 11 | There are 15 roads , 12 of which are reserved for painting , while Nos. 1 , 2 and 3 are provided with pits and used for over-hauling the electric light equipment of the coaches ' and ‘ 46 , known as ‘ No. 1 Paint Shop Extension ’ , in which there are 15 lines . |
| 12 | The applicants sought judicial review of the governors ' and the appeal committee 's decisions . |
| 13 | Those most involved also experience most feedback and are more aware of the governors ' and the LEA 's response to the report . |
| 14 | It is the level of the government 's ongoing commitment to honour the recommendations over pay and conditions of the Nurses ' and Midwives ' Pay Review Body ( PRB ) which has so incensed the professions . |
| 15 | [ It is asserted that ] in many cases … the only profit on bookwork is represented by the difference between the prices of the women 's and the men 's composition " . |
| 16 | For instance , it has no brief to propose a change in the law to give women wage parity in agricultural work because , as the Director of the Women 's Office explained , that was the responsibility of the Women 's and Minors ' Section of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 17 | The harbour at Wick is fronted with Telford-designed buildings , beautifully proportioned , the little dormitory windows of the west coast herring lassies high above the larger windows of the managers ' and traders ' rooms , warehouses and storerooms below . |
| 18 | For one thing , the Club minutes are missing from 1911 to 1920 , along with most of the Artisans ' records and those of the bondholders ' and all the sub-committees ! |
| 19 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 20 | Among local people who remember the young Tippett organising a performance of The Beggars ' and Robin , an opera he wrote himself , is great grandmother Mrs Madge Tansley , who lives in New Skelton . |
| 21 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 22 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 23 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
| 24 | To test whether each of the participants ' before and after scores were simply a fluke occurrence , as distinct from a genuine increase in alcohol knowledge , a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test was undertaken using SPSS and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z= - 10. 1839 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 . |
| 25 | As well as the chance to witness the climax of the men 's and women 's World Marathon Cup and watch a friend or relative struggle over the line , the tickets also include breakfast at a London hotel , once again courtesy of adidas UK . |
| 26 | In the finals of the men 's and the team events Guinness managed a well fought second place to players from Gale 's Brewery . |
| 27 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 28 | What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . |
| 29 | The gay movement learned greatly from black analysis and black political experience , and it was possible in 1970 tor Huey Newton , joint founder of the Black Panther Party , to welcome alliance with the women 's and gay movements . |
| 30 | It is now suggested that it is much more appropriate to see child abuse as a result of multiple interacting factors , including the parents ' and children 's psychological traits , the family 's place in the larger social and economic structure , and the balance of external supports and stresses , both interpersonal and material . |