Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In rural districts the banks ' main purpose was the receiving of bills brought in by local traders and farmers . |
| 2 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 3 | The articles of association of each company , or , in some cases the shareholders ' agreement , lay down the procedures for share valuation . |
| 4 | For example , in this study the patients ' sex and the length of time since diagnosis were both significantly associated with glycaemic control , as were the treatment group and number of diabetes related events in the previous 10 years . |
| 5 | HIRE a gardener and avoid becoming one of the 30 people the Consumers ' Association estimates will be killed in gardening accidents this year , or one of the more than 30,000 injured . |
| 6 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 7 | To avoid confusion between the different arrows the keys ' names are used in the Guide instead of their symbols , except in the case of the four arrowed direction keys , where both are given . |
| 8 | In March of this year the Ladies ' Captain , Mrs. Spratt , donated the bell by the 6th green and the Superintendent at Henley Police Station , Ralph Wastie , ( Audrey Luker 's father ) donated the Veterans ' Cup for golfers of 55 years or more . |
| 9 | This time the employers ' resistance was rigid and the workers ' ability to go without pay was soon exhausted . |
| 10 | Within such groups the males ' competitiveness for females produced a strongly hierarchical sequence of ranks . |
| 11 | The Dickens study reported that 55 per cent of applicants and 67 per cent of respondents were represented , though in the remaining cases the companies ' representatives ' status could not be readily identified ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | The company was floated shortly after that with the shares selling at six times the auditors ' valuation . |
| 13 | Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks . |
| 14 | Justin 's pupil Tatian from Mesopotamia developed with a sarcastic pen the philosophers ' dependence on Moses , which he argued with elaborate synchronisms from ancient chroniclers proving the priority of Moses . |
| 15 | There are individual deals the players ' company has no control over . |
| 16 | After 75 years the founders ' aim was on the verge of realisation . |
| 17 | What Mr Alexander establishes is the vital contrast between external sanctity and order and the lust , violence , madness and panic that fuel the characters ' actions . |
| 18 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 19 | These days the Sandinistas ' party anthem , which refers to the US government as the ‘ enemies of humanity ’ , sounds quaintly out of date . |
| 20 | In that event the players ' registrations would be taken over by the League and transfer fees payable to Lytham . |
| 21 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 22 | However in the present case the defendants ' contractual entitlement corresponds , in our view , to the indemnity basis set out in sub-rule ( 2 ) . |
| 23 | In the 1950 election the Tories ' share of the vote recovered significantly , with Labour losing support among the middle classes of the southern suburbs in particular , although the Labour Party could still rely on enthusiastic working class support ( the turnout at the 1950 election was the highest ever ) . |
| 24 | Despite colonial rule the islands ' distinctive craft techniques survived , particularly a liking for work inlaid with mother-of-pearl . |
| 25 | In all schools the governors ' obligation to report on the discharge of their functions obviously includes their response to special educational needs , and in special schools is synonymous with it . |
| 26 | If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV . |
| 27 | In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ . |
| 28 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 29 | In those circumstances the Raiders ' record of three defeats in four games proved unacceptable . |
| 30 | As an initial reaction the girls ' parents might have been shocked by what they got up to . |