Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson had borne a personal grudge against ‘ politically motivated ’ militants ever since the seamen 's strike of 1966 had spoiled his incomes policy and the attempted revival of the balance of payments upon which he had staked so much of his credibility . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In addition to the oratory provided by Havelock Wilson , the NAS&FU also made a contribution of £pound100 to strike funds and encouraged various branches of the Seamen 's Union throughout Australia to donate over £pound1,000 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No sense of urgency or enthusiasm here , just as there had been no promise of support in the seamen 's ballot of the previous June . |
| 6 | The textures , sounds and rhythms of The Shamen 's output from ‘ En-Tact ’ articulate their pleasure politics well enough , but they still seem drawn to lyrical sloganeering . |
| 7 | The path pursued particularly matched the clergy 's vision of the profanity of towns and sacrality of rural life . |
| 8 | The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded . |
| 9 | In 1532 , he again revealed the drift of his thinking by informing parliament that the clergy 's oath of allegiance to the pope was ‘ clean contrary to the oath that they make to us ’ . |
| 10 | Even without the clerical proctors , the clergy 's influence in and on parliament was considerable . |
| 11 | In view of the scale and seniority of the clergy 's membership of parliament , it seems unwise to dismiss the possibility of their influence upon its procedures and business . |
| 12 | From convocation he obtained a biennial tenth conditional upon the clergy 's exemption from any parliamentary tax . |
| 13 | In residents ' association meetings , the clergy 's point of view received vocal support from one or two members of the older village community which preceded the housing estate . |
| 14 | The Customs probe stems from an on-going RUC inquiry into the businessmen 's involvement in alleged cheque fraud . |
| 15 | Although the State shared the townsmen 's interest in broadening the urban tax base , the political influence of the Church and landowners delayed any decisive legislation . |
| 16 | By steadily eroding the townsmen 's monopoly over urban trade and craft , the State assisted not only serf entrepreneurs but also their noble masters who claimed much of their profit in the form of quit-rent . |
| 17 | There the Lord Chancellor endorsed the rights of ‘ free inhabitants of ancient messuages ’ in Saltash to dredge for oysters between Candlemas ( February 2nd ) and Easter each year , as they had ‘ from time immemorial ’ , the fishermen 's triumph over the Corporation is commemorated by a plaque on the ‘ Wheatsheaf ’ . |
| 18 | The fishermen 's response to the crisis will become clearer this week . |
| 19 | The ‘ stade ’ is the fishermen 's beach with its colourful jumble of fishing boats ( or luggers ) pulled up onto the shingle awaiting the next tide . |
| 20 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 21 | To Gandhi , satyagraha was a moral force which , by inspiring in the opponent a process of rational empathy with the suffering of the satyagrahi , brought him voluntarily to accept the rightness of the satyagrahi 's point of view . |
| 22 | She also wanted to have a Sunday dinner , whenever possible , in the style of Willis , who followed the bargemen 's custom of serving first sultana pudding with gravy , and then the roast . |
| 23 | But the smashed buildings that often surround the portraits now give Saddam 's confident grimace a manic quality , symbolizing the leaders 's departure from the real world rather than his control over it . |
| 24 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 25 | Of course there are the ephemeral reasons — the admen 's discovery of opera 's blend of corny emotion with glamour and spectacle ; the unpredictable cravings of yuppy culture snackers . |
| 26 | Connections between the men 's behaviour in the bar and the roomful of college boys who cheer a news report discrediting Sarah Bob , one of the rapists gets up and takes a bow — and crucially , with the male provenance of the District Attorney 's office . |
| 27 | The memorial marks a striking turnabout in the men 's approach to composing machines , which must have been the result of a fairly recent appreciation of the double threat posed by women Monotype operators . |
| 28 | Skinner 's had not signed the men 's memorial during the summer . |
| 29 | Macdonald also remarks a contrario , that " while the cheapness of women 's work as compositors in Edinburgh seems to have attracted a certain class of work from London , the men 's success in keeping up wages in London bookbinding does not seem to have driven bookbinding to the provinces " . |
| 30 | A telephone poll of athletes by national cross-country coach Bud Baldaro , who was not consulted by the UKCCC , revealed that most athletes likely to figure prominently strongly favoured accepting an offer by the Women 's Cross-Country and Road Running Association to incorporate the men 's trial into the women 's event at Birkenhead on February 16 . |