Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 2 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 3 | The single market of 1992 finds the solicitors ' profession in a prime position to take advantage of all the opportunities it has to offer . |
| 4 | In 1914 he had met Hans Arp , the French painter who was to become prominent in the new Dada movement , at the artists ' canteen in the Avenue du Maine . |
| 5 | And when the bankruptcy trustee decided that the members of the creditors ' committee in the Federated and Allied Stores chapter 11 proceedings could not trade the companies ' shares , the SEC supported a ( successful ) challenge to the decision , launched by the Fidelity fund-management group . |
| 6 | The transfer of sums out of the creditors ' total in the balance sheet does not , of itself , imply dishonesty and would not be an offence under the Theft Act 1968 , since any creditor able to prove the sum owing within the six year limitation period would be paid , regardless of the accounting treatment adopted . |
| 7 | The pursuers , having had no response to their requests for payment , treated the defenders ' failure in payment as discharging the contract and withdrew from the site , leaving the installation in an uncompleted state . |
| 8 | Leonard 's switch represents the second change of heart by the Lions ' management in the last week . |
| 9 | Hastings ' six penalties matches Tony Ward 's five penalties and a drop-goal in the Lions ' defeat in Cape Town in 1980 . |
| 10 | The referee was on the Lions ' side in the first half , before finding that their style did not suit him . |
| 11 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 12 | America was fascinated by the Russians ' presence in their prettiest city , and duly ignored the real significance of what was going on . |
| 13 | The Master of the Rolls in the Court of Appeal rejected these arguments and said that the purpose of the Directive was to co-ordinate the authorities ' discretion in member states and not to provide additional protection for investors . |
| 14 | The authorities ' success in capturing the main instigators of the coup was marred by the escape from detention of some officers , including another of the alleged ringleaders , Lt.-Cdr . |
| 15 | This is even stronger than saying that the dynamics of the system determine the behaviour of the units , as causes determine their effects , because ‘ functional ’ presumably implies something about the purpose of the states ' behaviour in achieving equilibrium , thus going beyond mere causal determination . |
| 16 | The aim is to attempt to neutralise the employers ' advantage in multi-plant companies where the workers of each plant are represented by different ( and otherwise uncoordinated ) trade unions . |
| 17 | These figures were produced in support of the employers ' position in the course of a bitter wage dispute ; the weavers claimed that on some types of cloth they could hardly make 4d ( 2p ) a day . |
| 18 | He gave a dinner to Lord Palmerston and others at which he put the bailiffs , who were in possession of his house , in livery , and had them officiate as waiters — reminiscent of the bailiffs ' scene in The God-Natured Man . |
| 19 | Stone also came dangerously close to giving the false impression that the GIs ' behaviour in the film was typical . |
| 20 | Once more Italy is faced with parliamentary chaos , but Italians are well versed in the Neapolitans ' skill in the choreography of ‘ order in disorder ’ . |
| 21 | There are no external examinations — assessment is internal , designed to guidelines provided by SCOTVEC , and measures the candidates ' achievement in the Outcomes . |
| 22 | Included in the criteria , which the RSPCA insist new EC regulations should meet , are a maximum journey time to abattoirs of eight hours , and certification for those responsible for the animals ' care in transit . |
| 23 | The main problem we have found is that the hens ' interest in simple peckable objects wanes rapidly . |
| 24 | Suddenly , I thought of St Bride 's , the journalists ' church in Fleet Street . |
| 25 | If the behaviour patterns of the good citizen as delineated by Home Office ministers were both so lacking and so necessary to cultivate as they suggested , the schools ' function in laying the essential foundations was transparently obvious . |
| 26 | Last won the Constructors ' Championship in 1983 and the drivers ' title in 1979 . |
| 27 | The LCP are recorded more closely ( note entirely to the violins ' advantage in the busier moments of the outer movements ) , and although this lends a welcome clarity , I find the results almost totally devoid of charm . |
| 28 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
| 29 | Actual performance needed , however , to be evaluated against potential performance given the units ' position in the market at the beginning of the five-year period . |
| 30 | Even without the clerical proctors , the clergy 's influence in and on parliament was considerable . |