Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Combined Operations ' planners were in Richmond Terrace near Whitehall , yet conveniently distant from service ministries . |
| 2 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
| 3 | The political prisoners ' section is a three-storey building with access to a small patio . |
| 4 | A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements . |
| 5 | Now whacky kids ' star is a proud dad |
| 6 | Among the next few months ' highlights are Borderline 's production of Dario Fo 's Mistero Buffo at the King 's Theatre with that man Robbie Coltrane again ( Feb ) ; The Art of Print , a survey of European Print Masters at the Hunterian Art Gallery ( Jan-Apr ) ; a new production of Pirandello 's Enrico Four at the Citizens Theatre ( Feb ) ; Steven Campbell 's first one-man show in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre ( Mar ) and Freaks by the Companie Genevieve de Kermabon at Tramway ( Mar ) . |
| 7 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 8 | ( 5 ) Directors ' service agreements of more than 12 months ' duration are open for inspection by any shareholder under CA 1985 , s318 . |
| 9 | Ongoing counselling offered the opportunity to explore further areas ; regular reviews at the old peoples ' home are part of the necessary monitoring of the situation . |
| 10 | Some countries ' currencies are only partially convertible into other currencies and their use for specific purposes , e.g. overseas investment , might be restricted by the central bank . |
| 11 | The retail commercial banks ' assets are illustrated in Table 3 . |
| 12 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
| 13 | " Thirty-six years ' abstinence is more than moderation , Gordon . " |
| 14 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 15 | Infants under 30 weeks ' gestation were electively ventilated from birth . |
| 16 | If not urgent , two clear days ' notice is required but is often waived . |
| 17 | Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards . |
| 18 | The British Workers ' League was founded under Milner 's wing as a front organization that was linked in principle with the coalition as a whole but was run from the Unionist side . |
| 19 | Accountants ' reports on unincorporated businesses ' accounts are currently referred to as ‘ audit reports ’ by many , including many banks and other lenders . |
| 20 | Er the er the breeders ' evening now what happened on this breeders ' evening is that the they run the raffle then give us our expenses out of it so that eleven pound eighty is the is the part of the raffle proceeds which we need to , to e to er for our expenses , you 'll see on the other side erm that we spent that eleven eighty , six eighty for er refreshments and five pound for the rent . |
| 21 | Micro Resources ' SwitchTerm is an X Window and Unix-based tool that enables network managers to consolidate multiple operating systems onto a single console , where they can be viewed in windows on the screen . |
| 22 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 23 | The foreign investors ' share was to reduce from 60 to 30 per cent by 1990 ( Malaysia , 1973 : table 4.9 ) . |
| 24 | Some suppliers ' representatives are highly adept at pressurising junior staff into placing orders . |
| 25 | However , as a matter of principle it annoys Hon. Members to think that Welsh Members should adopt such an attitude , because millions of pounds of English taxpayers ' money are directed towards Wales . |
| 26 | The quota-equivalent of the tariff is derived by substituting ( 22 ) into ( 17 ) , which , after rearranging gives the following expression : where Since , following the imposition of the quota , the home firms act in a Cournot manner ( i.e. they know that there will be no response from their foreign competitors ) and that the foreign firms ' conjecture is undefined where the quota is binding . |
| 27 | BRITISH taxpayers ' money is being used to fund Nazi-type population controls in Tibet , Liverpool MP David Alton has claimed . |
| 28 | The Free Presbyterians ' fines were paid by an anonymous donor . |
| 29 | The old Lords ' Act was a long time a-dying ; and non-traders were still unable to claim the benefits of bankruptcy open to traders . |
| 30 | This old wives ' tale is amazingly persistent , despite the fact that no cat could possibly relax and sleep on top of a squirming , suffocating baby . |