Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fine china maker Wedgwood is to shed 160 jobs when it shuts the Johnson Brothers ' Hanley Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 2 | They pointed out that Lome III had not stimulated trade between the EC and the ACP countries ( since 1985 trade in both directions had actually fallen in both absolute and relative terms ) , or lessened the ACP countries ' economic dependence on the production of primary commodities , or encouraged industrialization . |
| 3 | In 1974 , UDA ‘ muscle ’ brought thousands on to the streets to enforce the Ulster Workers ' strike which toppled the power-sharing executive . |
| 4 | Laura , an accountant , has just won the Ulster ladies ' individual life-saving title for the fourth year running , while Karen is in the ambulance service and plays a key role as secretary of Ireland 's No.1 club in the RLSS — Southend . |
| 5 | Ken is now launching the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra , the first rehearsal of which will take place next Saturday at 2pm in Methodist College . |
| 6 | On March 23 a law had been passed liquidating the Prasa-Ksiazka-Ruch workers ' publishing cooperative ( RSW ) , linked to the PUWP , which had controlled 90 per cent of the circulation of the Polish press . |
| 7 | GOALKEEPER Aidan Davison , so his grandma tells us , has just been named the Millwall supporters ' player of the year . |
| 8 | humanitarian assistance to Somalia and to co-operate with regional organisations ( Organisation of African Unity and Arab League named ; Organisation of the Islamic Conference later co-opted ) in seeking the Mogadishu factions ' agreement to a ceasefire , the distribution of humanitarian aid and the promotion of a political settlement . |
| 9 | This change would also break the ITV companies ' monopoly over advertising revenue ( a change much favoured by the Peacock Committee and advertisers , amongst others ) . |
| 10 | David Kossoff , who played the Baker brothers ' father , still remembers the impression that Crawford left on him . |
| 11 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 12 | This was not the way in which the Iranians came to perceive the Gulf states ' role . |
| 13 | He could tell of earning half a crown a week and leading the horse pulling the Putney clubs ' boats home from Henley , and of the visit of Harvard to race Cambridge at Putney in 1906 . |
| 14 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 15 | A few years later , when Masai rights of occupancy in the Serengeti were at issue , some influential Masai resident in the national park joined the Meru Citizens ' Union . |
| 16 | In 1924 he joined the Calico Printers ' Association as a research chemist , at a time when the search was on in many laboratories for new synthetic fibres . |
| 17 | Only last week Davis scored a course record 65 at Knebworth ( unoffical because he enjoyed preferred lies ) to win the Hertfordshire boys ' title at the expense of Hamilton , who also lost out to Davis in 1991 . |
| 18 | The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 . |
| 19 | Expressing concern about calls for Taiwan independence , he said that China had noted the Taiwan authorities ' " strong stand " against independence activists . |
| 20 | A petition was presented to Henry McCubbin , the Labour Euro MP for North-east Scotland , stating the Timex workers ' case and calling for the introduction of standards of employment protection equalled to those in other European countries . |
| 21 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 22 | The EC responded to some of these concerns by offering to increase the proportion of grants to loans ( in order to ease the ACP countries ' debt commitments ) , to allocate funds to short-term structural adjustment rather than to long-term aid projects ( to help ACP countries overcome acute balance-of-payments and other problems ) , and to relax the regulations on the rules of origin for manufactured products ( with the aim of encouraging industrialization in ACP countries ) . |
| 23 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 24 | One agent suggested today that the QPR striker stands to have £500,000 added to his price tag at a stroke if he enjoys a successful debut not to mention the guaranteed lucrative spin-off of joining the England players ' pool . |
| 25 | The Jockey Club 's Disciplinary Committee upheld the York stewards ' judgement that Eddery had been guilty of interfering with Green 's Bid and Splendent in the Gimcrack Stakes . |
| 26 | Hun Sen , the prime minister of Cambodia , has withdrawn an earlier promise to allow the Khmers Rouges ' leaders to stand in any election . |
| 27 | Only the canny Mr Genscher , who knew the East Germans ' minds , could have thought of letting the regime save face by ‘ expelling ’ their own people across their own territory . |
| 28 | Other special services followed : The Reverend Wesley Gray brought the Dundonald Ladies ' Choir ; a team of nurses came from Lurgan and Portadown Hospital and a team of laymen came from Belfast : Thomas Street Old Boys ' Band and the Old Girls ' Association Choir came and one service was taken by Mr Donald Woodman BEM BA and the Portadown College School Choir . |
| 29 | Tonight , two covers conveniently mark The Fatima Mansions ' musical parameters . |
| 30 | When the current petition for amendment of the trust indenture was made public , Glanton also circulated a letter , dated 24 January 1992 , from National Gallery director J. Carter Brown , detailing the gallery 's willingness to assist the tour , and endorsing the Barnes trustees ' ‘ active course to assure the institution 's future ’ . |