Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 's [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some forms of the second genus were apparently more difficult for the trade union movement to identify , one of these being that created in 1872 by William Paterson Lind , Superintendent Registrar for the Port of London , as the London Seamen 's Mutual Protection Society , later known as the Amalgamate British Seamen 's Protection Society . |
| 2 | AN AGREEMENT on fishing quotas reached by EC ministers yesterday could push half of Scotland 's fleet to bankruptcy , Scottish Fishermen 's Federation chief executive , Mr Bob Allan , said . |
| 3 | Officials of the Scottish Fishermen 's Federation plan to lobby today 's crucial talks . |
| 4 | From examination of family life and some of the needs of children at home , the next writer , Nigel Parton , moves to the tragic issue of child abuse , a form of adult behaviour which makes some children 's home life a nightmare and which social workers find is one of the most difficult problems they have to address . |
| 5 | Indeed , so popular were the Pathfinders characters that several of them were hived off to appear in another children 's sf serial , City Beneath the Sea , a well written technological thriller penned by John Lucarotti . |
| 6 | EVER since Neil Adams retired , Densign White has been the spokesman and leader of the British men 's judo squad . |
| 7 | The British men 's hockey team have been putting the final touches to their preparations for the Olympics . |
| 8 | For armchair fans back home , it was one of the highights of the Seoul Olympics ; the British men 's hockey team beating Germany in the Final to take the gold medal . |
| 9 | Terry Storry is standing in for Hugh Mantle at Liverpool Polytechnic while Hugh takes a year out to coach the British men 's kayak slalom team ( Aug , p19 ) . |
| 10 | The British men 's magazine market seems never to have outgrown its tedious fascination with fast boats and faster cars . |
| 11 | For younger members of the family , there is an exciting children 's play area * , an old-fashioned Penny Arcade , and a working miniature fairground to be enjoyed , as well as many special events and exhibitions held throughout the year . |
| 12 | In February this year , Jim Mailer from the JRA Administration Centre won the Scottish men 's singles badminton championships at Meadowbank in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Both parents ordered him to stop calling his sister ‘ Brian ’ , a nickname derived from a slow and rather dull-witted snail who featured in a popular children 's TV show , ‘ The Magic Roundabout ’ . |
| 14 | Earlier this year , Intervet ( UK ) Ltd , a leading British animal health company , ran a poster competition through WWF in conjunction with the popular children 's publication Owl Magazine . |
| 15 | Groups like the British Women 's Temperance Association and the NUWW began to define their long standing crusade for purity and the reform of male sexuality as part of the contemporary feminist struggle . |
| 16 | 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas . |
| 17 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 18 | After her five Wimbledon singles wins , she retired from lawn tennis at the age of twenty-one , and , turning her talents to golf , she became a semi-finalist at the Open Championship in 1898 and 1899 and won the British Women 's Golf Championship in 1904 at Troon . |
| 19 | The new scheme , which , it is hoped , will introduce tennis to some 20,000 youngsters over the next three years , has been masterminded by former British Women 's Team manager , Sue Mappin , most recently remembered for her success in staging the 1991 Federation Cup tournament in Nottingham . |
| 20 | Newcastle did well to finish third in the British women 's club team championship at Sheffield with Samantha Foggo finishing first in the 800m freestyle . |
| 21 | And in France , Irigarayan psychoanalysts attained a degree of visibility which led them to appear , for a short period and to some people , as the whole French women 's liberation movement ( Turkle 1979 , Moi 1987 ) . |
| 22 | He also operates popular self-defence classes for women at Larchfield Sports Centre , where he is assisted by Debbie Harris , former English women 's karate champion . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose , ’ he said to Marjorie later , pouring whisky for them both , ‘ it 's all this women 's lib nonsense . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not really for all this women 's lib business , but I go for what this young lady says . |
| 25 | But this women 's suffrage element is only a part of the second item 's subject field and not explicit in the title ; it would require competent and perceptive indexing to bring it out , if it was desired that this should be attempted in the index . |
| 26 | Scientific calorie charts , on which all those popular women 's magazine calorie charts are based , speak of ‘ available carbohydrate calories ’ . |
| 27 | AS PART of the Scottish women 's squad training , a Bulgarian national ladies ' team is visiting Scotland this week . |
| 28 | In the absence of the proverbial golf course , the lack of networks through which to find suitably experienced women for senior board appointments could be construed as the final obstacle — were it not , it was pointed out , for the rapid proliferation of alternatives in the form of Network , set up all of 12 years ago as a meeting point for women managers , the Scottish Women 's Enterprise Group and Businesswomen 's Clubs . |
| 29 | Performed at the CCPR Golden Jubilee Festival at the Royal Albert Hall and the Scottish Women 's KFA Festival in Edinburgh |
| 30 | The Whitburn side , who eased into the Royal Bank Scottish Women 's Cup final by beating Streamline Hazlehead on Saturday , believe they are in the best shape possible for the match . |