Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |
| 32 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 33 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
| 34 | Social workers ' tendency to co-opt her into the professional team will be difficult for her to handle . |
| 35 | She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care . |
| 36 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 37 | Nick Musgrave , secretary and chief executive of the Thoroughbred Breeders ' Association said : ‘ This is a very positive move in the right direction . ’ |
| 38 | Fujitsu and Toshiba have followed Hitachi and IBM Japan in cutting top executives ' pay following a weakening in consumer electronics and computer markets and a slide in profits . |
| 39 | This officers ' group lasted for the duration of the occupation , which is to say , for six years , though most of its leaders were caught and executed in the course of the war . |
| 40 | Some firms ' behaviour suggests that it did , but not simply by making them invest more in Japanese factories . |
| 41 | This practitioners ' society functioned until 1835 , when it was dissolved because of poor attendance by its members , while the College 's society continued to exist . |
| 42 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the tourist industry in the island as a whole was affected adversely by British Airways ' decision to stop the London-Dublin link ? |
| 43 | British Airways ' plan to invest in a 44% stake in USAir collapsed . |
| 44 | The new project will also allow the researchers to develop an analysis of how ( if at all ) higher-income households ' decision-making differs from the process in poorer families and how factors such as tax and social security considerations affect the two groups . |
| 45 | The Civil and Public Servants ' Association opposes the move , which it said will mean pay cuts of up to £2,000 a year . |
| 46 | The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 47 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 48 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 49 | If , after proper analysis and consultation on the long-term benefits and implications of a new piece of guidance , they decide on a policy which restricts some members ' ability to earn fees in the short term , then that is part of the price of being a profession . |
| 50 | The cornerstone of our democratic system is hon. Members ' right to ask questions and to have those questions answered . |
| 51 | The first and most obvious change is to increase the duration of each exercise , but keeping the rest periods constant , that is 30 seconds ' exercise followed by 1 5 seconds ' rest . |
| 52 | A few seconds ' pause gives the speaker a chance to calm down and gauge the atmosphere in the room . |
| 53 | GOVERNMENT must act on quotas for suckler cows and breeding ewes which threaten the future of the landlord tenant system , the Scottish Landowners ' Federation claimed yesterday . |
| 54 | The National Farmers Union and the Scottish Landowners ' Federation have included their concerns in submissions to the Scottish Office in response to the Government 's consultative document on the future of water and sewerage services in Scotland . |
| 55 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 56 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had decided to use some of the proceeds from its sale of the Harrison-Towns field to build squash-courts , and the Parents ' Association was about to launch an Appeal to raise money for a swimming pool , the lack of which had been bemoaned since the move to Buxton Road . |
| 57 | To commemorate the event in more permanent fashion , the Old Stopfordians ' Association presented one hundred guineas to buy an organ . |
| 58 | The election 's last-minute switch to Labour probably reflected a genuine desire on some voters ' part to get the Tories out . |
| 59 | Her parents Robert and Carol joined in the hunt , which ended on Boxing Day when a man walking his dog in a nearby lovers ' lane found Johanna 's black trainers in a hedge . |
| 60 | The Women 's Fellowship organized various 1- and 2-day shops and the Old Boys ' Choir gave a concert . |