Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trio of vessels ( with a combined weight less than one of today 's jumbo jets ) passed the tip of a small island where it was dear the two oceans ' waters met — the point is now named Crosstides — and through the Paso Tortuosa . |
| 2 | In August 1934 the Soviet Writers ' Congress held in Moscow provided a unique forum at which communists and non-communists could discuss positive measures to promote an anti-fascist cultural front . |
| 3 | However , after 1850 the two countries ' experiences begin to diverge . |
| 4 | The Sh.800,000/ — voted by the Ministry of Commerce and Cooperatives in the 1967–68 estimates was then able to meet less than half the two papers ' annual operating deficit . |
| 5 | For example , the experimental Peckham Health Centre ( opened in 1926 in the London suburb of Peckham as a community centre dedicated to the study and maintenance of the conditions necessary for health ) found that when it re-opened after the War only about half the original members ' families remained in the area . |
| 6 | Gurder gave this a few moments ' careful and terrified thought . |
| 7 | They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent . |
| 8 | In 1921 the Young Ladies ' Sewing Group was granted the use of the schoolroom for one night a week . |
| 9 | But the Soviet leader had rather more success in prising discussions out of the West in that a foreign ministers ' conference was held about Germany in mid-1959 in Geneva . |
| 10 | The aggregate demand for labour for the economy as a whole will be the sum of all the individual firms ' demands for labour . |
| 11 | Called me frigid and said all the other chaps ' girls were willing enough , and would it matter all that much if he put a bun in the oven for me ? |
| 12 | For the Largs-bound SASA squad — 11 swimmers , three synchronised swimmers and two divers — there will be three training sessions , plus a chance to mix with leading competitors from all the other Games ' disciplines . |
| 13 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 14 | I reckon that our family covers just about every area , I mean , my silly wee sister gets all the little ones ' news — not that very much happens there . |
| 15 | Here as elsewhere , Darwin 's theory showed its value as a working hypothesis ; and by the 1870s Flower could argue that all the hoofed animals ' general line of descent and relationships could be worked out using fossil discoveries . |
| 16 | On April 4 the Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( UTM ) had demanded the introduction of a multiparty system , citing recent events in Mali [ see pp. 38083 ; 38134 ] . |
| 17 | At a meeting on April 29 the Independent Smallholders ' Party political bureau elected Ferenc Nagy as party chairman in place of Istvan Prepeliczay , a proponent of alliance with the SzDSz , who was excluded from the session . |
| 18 | On Aug. 29 the Armenian authorities ' plans to disarm the militias were thrown into crisis . |
| 19 | In the general election held on April 27 the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ) of Prime Minister John Compton , 66 , won a third consecutive five-year term of office . |
| 20 | FIG. 1 The spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma can generate a large variety of qualitatively different patterns , depending on the magnitude of the parameter , b , which represents the advantage for defectors . |
| 21 | I AM writing on behalf of the ships company of HMS Active , and in particular the Petty Officers ' mess , to formally thank the city of Liverpool for the excellent hospitality that has been shown to us during our visit . |
| 22 | On March 15 the main employers ' and trade-union federations agreed a general wage rise of 4 per cent for around 400,000 private-sector workers . |
| 23 | Similarly , and rather hauntingly , in 2492 the Coen Brothers ' Miller 's Crossing of 1991 and Raoul Walsh 's High Sierra of 1941 are likely to strike all but the specialized eye as absolutely contemporaneous . |
| 24 | The remaining five seats , allocated for election by minority communities such as Chinese , Europeans and other Pacific islanders , were all filled by candidates of the General Voters ' Party ( until 1990 the General Electors ' Association ) . |
| 25 | The Politburo , reviewing the talks , described them as a ‘ major political event ’ and thought particularly significant the two leaders ' declaration that a nuclear war could not be won and must never be fought ; this was at odds with the views of some influential US ( and Soviet ) strategists . |
| 26 | Some unconfirmed reports listed among the dead a Kurdish Workers ' Party ( KWP or PKK ) leader , Dr Baran , described as responsible for planning guerrilla operations from Syrian-supported training camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon . |