Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' and " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Baden is one of the " Ten Typical Swiss Towns ' and that in itself is a guarantee of something individual . |
| 2 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 3 | His name was Joseph Havelock Wilson , the year was 1887 and he made clear his ambition by grandiosely entitling his new organisation the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 4 | Apart from himself , " only one man turned up — Frank Foley by name and I enrolled Foley as a member after I had enrolled myself , so that there were then two members of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain " . |
| 5 | Whether anything at all had been salvaged out of the wreck of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was still questionable . |
| 6 | The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was held , as would normally have been expected , at the end of October 1894 in a mood of retrenchment and with threats from Wilson , now designated general president , and Robert McBride , recently created general secretary , that they would no longer tolerate " the underhand and carping pettiness of branch officials " and their " present lax and disorderly method of conducting the business of the union " and would resign if the situation did not improve . |
| 7 | " One summer 's morning in 1894 the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was wound up ; its leaders then adjourned for lunch and a drink , re-entering the building in the afternoon to start a new union under a slightly different name " . |
| 8 | In listing the various problems faced by 5 Corps , Macmillan includes " Dealing with the White Russians and Cossacks , together with their wives and families , serving in these German forces ' and " Dealing with Ustachis , Chetniks and other Yugoslav refugees , deciding which , if any , are to be handed over to the Tito troops etc " . |
| 9 | This photograph shows Edison after three continuous days ' and nights ' work on the machine . |
| 10 | Examples are health authorities " being forced to pay huge sums to private locum agencies providing temporary medical cover as more doctors opt for higher private rates ' and " local councils paying £I , 000 per week to specialist agencies to fill a single accountant 's job " because they could not recruit permanent staff on the nationally agreed salary scales were reported recently ( The Times , 24/11/86 and 5/9/7 ) . |
| 11 | By " aptitude " Carroll meant " the amount of time needed to learn a task under optimal instructional conditions ' and not its more usual connotation of how much a student is capable of learning . |
| 12 | Ned Cathery , in his first report as general secretary of the new National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland gave the date of its formation as 26 November 1894 at a gathering of the union 's most loyal supporters at the Wade Arms in Poplar . |