Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 2 | In 1971 Jack Webb became the Bondholders ' Secretary , followed by Harold Chambers in 1975 up to 1981 , from which date to their winding up Basil Peacock held the reins . |
| 3 | ANC officials called for police help during the weekend of April 13-14 when some 500 armed Inkatha supporters attacked a workers ' hostel near the Mandelas ' home in Soweto . |
| 4 | They introduce the ‘ Son of man ’ , and the relationships between Christianity and other religions whose heaps of broken images strew the anthropologists ' pages and the sites of the world 's past cultures . |
| 5 | At the apex of the pyramid came the princes ' homage to the king — at least where they took it ( excluding therefore the counts of the far south and of Brittany , and the duke of Normandy after the breach of 1051 ) . |
| 6 | Today the owners of the horse were unavailable for comment but their solicitor said that while they accepted the horse broke loose they do not accept liability and are disputing any claim the horse caused the boys ' injuries . |
| 7 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 8 | President Mugabe aroused the students ' anger last weekend with a speech accusing them of drinking and smoking too much and misbehaving rather than studying . |
| 9 | On May 12th , at Wembley , Parma took the Cup-Winners ' Cup , one of Europe 's three main international tournaments . |
| 10 | The director and an adviser attended the governors ' meeting which received the final report , the director stressing that follow-up to the report was as important as the exercise itself . |
| 11 | The four Capel Curig youngsters , Rebbecca Banks , 11 , Sally West , 14 , and sisters Medi Ashton , 11 , and Sarah Ashton , 14 , all pupils of Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy , Llanrwst won the girls ' section of the recent Welsh School artificial ski championships . |
| 12 | Phelioff won the Ladies ' Open at this meeting last Easter and is once again amongst the 15 entries . |
| 13 | Waller 's informants illustrated the residents ' reluctance to oppose the companies , for fear of losing their jobs and homes . |
| 14 | Then Lyman 's Ears replaced the cadets ' ordinary lugs , which were sliced away and quarried out … |
| 15 | In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan . |
| 16 | He under-estimated his side 's dominance by two years , as Surrey held the champions ' pennant from 1952–58 . |
| 17 | Mr Newman added the councils ' policy of inaction is shortsighted as a recent survey carried out by property agent Drivers Jonas for English Estates shows that 32pc of all office property in Middlesbrough is situated in the Enterprise Zone . |
| 18 | He had printed four volumes before the lord chamberlain forbade the Stationers ' Company to print any of the King 's Men 's plays without permission . |
| 19 | A warrior named No Heart delayed the soldiers ' pursuit , parleying across the river with Howard before promptly slapping his buttocks in derision and galloping away from the man the Nez Perce were now calling ‘ General Day After Tomorrow ’ . |
| 20 | Bomberg shared the Vorticists ' involvement with the machine-age dynamism of modern urban life . |
| 21 | After North became the contras ' overseer , in October 1984 , he tried , according to Rafael Quintero , to inculcate some honesty into them : taking Calero 's brother Mario off the contract for ponchos and boots ( the ponchos leaked , anyway ) and putting control of the contras ' foreign money in the hands of Secord and ‘ the company ’ . |
| 22 | The sun tumbled the islands ' shadows on the sea . |
| 23 | The 6ft 10in Scott Paterson led the Riders ' scoring with 26 points . |
| 24 | The General Commissioners dismissed the taxpayers ' appeal , accepting the Crown 's arguments that there was one practice and that an election under para 21(2) could not be made where a trade was split into two . |
| 25 | The judge dismissed the solicitors ' summons . |
| 26 | The judge rejected the defendants ' argument that the information was made publicly available at the race meeting and that they were accordingly free to publish it . |
| 27 | v. British Railways Board even though the goods were in no danger and the defendants recognised the plaintiffs ' title : the shortage of stock caused by industrial action was acute and damages would not adequately compensate the plaintiffs for the injury to their business . |
| 28 | ( The previous attempt to introduce a poll tax in England provoked the Peasants ' Revolt in the fourteenth century . ) |
| 29 | As part of her Arts Council responsibilities , Deirdre Keaney chaired the Writers ' Bursaries Panel . |
| 30 | The Clarets only once managed to get past Ford during a frenzied 90 minutes in which Burnley bombarded the Seasiders ' goal . |