Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political prisoners ' section is a three-storey building with access to a small patio . |
| 2 | Now whacky kids ' star is a proud dad |
| 3 | On this particular issue , the evidence of over 30 years ' research is before them and there is no lack of evidence to hide behind . |
| 4 | " Thirty-six years ' abstinence is more than moderation , Gordon . " |
| 5 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 6 | If not urgent , two clear days ' notice is required but is often waived . |
| 7 | Er the er the breeders ' evening now what happened on this breeders ' evening is that the they run the raffle then give us our expenses out of it so that eleven pound eighty is the is the part of the raffle proceeds which we need to , to e to er for our expenses , you 'll see on the other side erm that we spent that eleven eighty , six eighty for er refreshments and five pound for the rent . |
| 8 | Micro Resources ' SwitchTerm is an X Window and Unix-based tool that enables network managers to consolidate multiple operating systems onto a single console , where they can be viewed in windows on the screen . |
| 9 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 10 | The quota-equivalent of the tariff is derived by substituting ( 22 ) into ( 17 ) , which , after rearranging gives the following expression : where Since , following the imposition of the quota , the home firms act in a Cournot manner ( i.e. they know that there will be no response from their foreign competitors ) and that the foreign firms ' conjecture is undefined where the quota is binding . |
| 11 | BRITISH taxpayers ' money is being used to fund Nazi-type population controls in Tibet , Liverpool MP David Alton has claimed . |
| 12 | This old wives ' tale is amazingly persistent , despite the fact that no cat could possibly relax and sleep on top of a squirming , suffocating baby . |
| 13 | BRITISH girls ' golf is this week moving into Europe , with as many as 22 players teeing up in the French Lady Juniors ' championship , which starts today at St-Nom-La-Breteche , near Paris . |
| 14 | The German soldiers ' equivalent is just a mass of fat . |
| 15 | Given that Callinicos ' book is difficult , and given the probability that despite the seriousness of its argument it is unlikely to be widely debated , I will firstly offer an interpretation of what I think its main themes are , and what they are not . |
| 16 | The opinion is that he could not have done more , just as the South African golfers , as stressed by Bland , have done everything to eliminate apartheid from their tournament scene in order that the South African Professional Golfers ' Association is respected for placing merit before colour or creed . |
| 17 | Male drivers ' arrogance is almost as bad as their aggression , it seems . |
| 18 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |
| 19 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |
| 20 | But cognitive theories ' rationalism is male-identified , drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical , coherent thought . |
| 21 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 22 | However , lined up alongside such vintage stuff as seen on Pages 48 and 49 , we think you 'll agree that the following rogues ' gallery is a pretty ropey showing . |
| 23 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 24 | Six to eight weeks ' notice is advisable . |
| 25 | A key factor in these companies ' success is knowing their customers ' preferences . |
| 26 | Withdrawals can be made penalty free if 90 days ' notice is given ; instant access means 90 days ' loss of interest . |
| 27 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
| 28 | The Redskins ' link-up with the Socialist Workers ' Party is the most stringent and emphatic attempt to thrust pop into some sort of relation to the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 29 | Clapp et al have shown that cord blood between 25 and 31 weeks ' gestation is particularly rich in haemopoietic stem cells . |
| 30 | In fact , London qualified ambulance workers are being offered £12,100 , while to get anywhere near £25,000 a Metropolitan police constable would have to be putting in a huge amount of overtime — the annual pay of a PC with three years ' experience is £12,756 . |