Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hartlepool schoolgirl Sarah Gascoigne , who missed the county championships when she was on a family holiday in America , was five seconds outside the qualifying time in the junior girls ' 800 metres with a time of 2:25.0 but she cleared 1.50 metres as a guest in the high jump , four centimetres inside the English Schools qualifying height . |
| 2 | SA Students and Orange Free State fly-half Jannie De Beer played in the Junior Springboks ' 79–3 win against a full-strength Namibia national side in Windhoek last month , while scrum-half Hentie Martons represented SA schools two years ago . |
| 3 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 4 | The Assistant Commissioners ' later report mentions that Lightpill was occupied by Brown and Tucker , and that they had only two hand looms , both unemployed . |
| 5 | In 1987 only half of the Progressive Democrats ' 14 TDs were elected on quotas made up of first-preference votes given to them or to party running-mates from whom they were transferred . |
| 6 | In 1989 only two of the Progressive Democrats ' six TDs were elected by votes given exclusively to their party . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's crunch meeting of the Progressive Democrats ' parliamentary party was adjourned until tomorrow , when they may be left with little option but to quit the Reynolds government . |
| 8 | For Belgium to qualify for the European Communities ' final stage of economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] , the budget deficit would have to be reduced from the current 6.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to 3 per cent by 1996 . |
| 9 | The fact that it was not expressly mentioned in the Council of the European Communities ' general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series , p. 7 ) makes no difference , since , useful as it is , the programme only contains guidelines and is not exhaustive . |
| 10 | The motion , which fell three votes short of the necessary 289 votes , was proposed by Philippe Vasseur ( UDF ) in protest against the government 's support for reform of the European Communities ' common agricultural policy [ see p. 38931 ] . |
| 11 | The essential problem of enquiring into what may be in other people 's minds has been captured by John Berger , who has made one of the most imaginative reconstructions of the European guest-workers ' social world . |
| 12 | A pro-forma statement of the combined companies ' net assets was £294m . |
| 13 | the investing group 's share of any goodwill in the associated companies ' own balance sheets |
| 14 | The EC delegation raised questions about the ASEAN members ' continued status as " developing countries " given their favourable balance of trade with Europe . |
| 15 | Similarly , lawyers dislike the economic theorists ' overt ‘ calculatedness ’ whereby human conduct is subjected to , and subsequently given , quantification and rational explanation . |
| 16 | Capital was not the rural areas ' only contribution to the development of the industrial economy . |
| 17 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 18 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 19 | The ‘ politics ’ of the motor car throughout the inter-war years depended to a large extent on the vigorous leadership given by the private motorists ' main organization , the Automobile Association . |
| 20 | Hence the private producers ' marginal cost curve for films reflects the market value to producers of using these resources to make meals instead , but it no longer reflects the opportunity cost or utility valuation of forgone meals to society . |
| 21 | The working classes ' basic humanity had , Reich argued , been distorted by bourgeois values and priorities . |
| 22 | The Government also rejected another move by the Labour peers ' former leader , Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos , a former Secretary for Wales , declaring Welsh an official language . |
| 23 | The Chief of the Armed Forces ' General Staff , Gen. José Valdivia Dueñas , had not been implicated , according to Fujimori , and would be reinstated in his post . |
| 24 | The 1989 defence budget called for 1.7 per cent growth in spending to 11.75 billion lei ( approximately £500 million — Britain 's defence budget in the same period was £19.2 billion ) , but this is insufficient for the armed forces ' perceived needs . |
| 25 | The fall of the tragic character into either a real ( that is , narrated ) death or a ( again , narrated ) living death will aid the disavowal , the catharsis , of the non-disabled audiences ' ever-present fear for the loss of their own ‘ able-bodiedness ’ . |
| 26 | The mainstream critics ' thankless task ( their privilege ) is only completed when every last cultural product is herded into this universal corral of taste where , to quote Bourdieu once more , ‘ the most classifying privilege has the privilege of appearing to be the most natural one ’ . |
| 27 | The crowning absurdity of the rich countries ' current thinking on aid is not , however , their preference for lots of tied aid to not-terribly-poor countries , but their fondness for combining big cheques with barriers to trade . |
| 28 | That would only hasten the rich countries ' relative decline . |
| 29 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 30 | In the course of a remarkable year , Mhairi , who played off plus-two , won both the British and Belgian Girls ' Championships , the Scottish Girls ' Closed Championship and the Helen Holm Trophy . |