Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] [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 | The articles of association of each company , or , in some cases the shareholders ' agreement , lay down the procedures for share valuation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Within such groups the males ' competitiveness for females produced a strongly hierarchical sequence of ranks . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The company was floated shortly after that with the shares selling at six times the auditors ' valuation . |
| 7 | Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks . |
| 8 | There are individual deals the players ' company has no control over . |
| 9 | After 75 years the founders ' aim was on the verge of realisation . |
| 10 | These days the Sandinistas ' party anthem , which refers to the US government as the ‘ enemies of humanity ’ , sounds quaintly out of date . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ . |
| 13 | In those circumstances the Raiders ' record of three defeats in four games proved unacceptable . |
| 14 | He had received his political education in the household of Nur ed-Din , ruler of Syria from 1154 to 1174 and in those years the crusaders ' greatest enemy . |
| 15 | In Holland and several other continental countries the unions ' rightful place was very much regarded as being ‘ not inside the plant but beyond the gates ’ ( Windmüller , 1967 ) . |
| 16 | On the foregoing conditions the Goldsmiths ' Company will grant to the Corporation a lease of the School Buildings and Land connected therewith free of rent for 999 years , and will give them a perpetual endowment of £290 per annum in addition to the sum of £10 which they are bound to pay under the will of Sir Edmond Shaa ; but the Lease and the Endowment Grant shall contain clauses giving the Goldsmiths ' Company the right of re-entry in the one case and making the annuity to cease in the other on breach of any or either of the conditions above named . " |
| 17 | In other cases the parents ' view of what their child should be able to do is appropriate but the child is showing a delay in his or her development and needs more detailed assessment of the level of progress . |
| 18 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 19 | In recent years the officers ' freedom to divorce professional judgement from political calculation has , in many authorities , diminished sharply , and today 's chief officers are increasingly coming ‘ to see their role as less than that of a neutral professional or technocrat and more that of a bureaucratic politician ’ ( Laffin and Young , 1985 , p. 51 ) . |
| 20 | It is futile to judge by modern standards the Abyssinians ' treatment of their prisoners : theirs were still the standards of the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | John Pilger Labour shares the Tories ' great power pretensions |
| 22 | JOHN PILGER The ghost of Mrs Thatcher Labour shares the Tories ' great power pretensions |
| 23 | In both cases the parents ' resignation to the inevitability of the assessment outcome arose from their having no opportunity to determine or seriously influence the objectives of the assessment nor to contribute to the conceptual framework within which their children 's needs were being assessed . |