Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 2 | Isabel stumbled out of the dark cell into a scene that made the priests ' descriptions of hell seem tame . |
| 3 | Crucial to Shah 's and Murdoch 's success was the Thatcher government 's industrial relations legislation that limited the unions ' power to respond . |
| 4 | In particular , it seems that the market forces that opened the doctors ' doors in slums are determining the type and quality of the care that they provide . |
| 5 | The loss of defensive co-ordinator Dave Wannstedet , to become the new head coach at Chicago has yet to be fully assessed but it was his planning that neutralised the Bills ' threat . |
| 6 | But it was commercial hunting by European settlers that devastated the animals ' populations . |
| 7 | Sometimes they even tried embellishments that improved the tools ' performance . |
| 8 | His request for an adjournment to consider this evidence and to produce scientific evidence that supported the nuns ' claim that the flock was not a threat to human health , was granted by the judges until Tuesday . |
| 9 | The Fouchet plan 's demise did not appear to cause de Gaulle undue distress , any more than did the Americans ' failure to respond to his memorandum . |
| 10 | Our love does n't help us survive , any more than did the Indians ' thieving . |
| 11 | Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs ' legs . |
| 12 | Defending solicitor Mr. Blundell asked the magistrates to consider whether Mr. Thurgood would have played the part of peacemaker and then gone out and attacked the soldiers ' car . |
| 13 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 14 | Mhoira Robertson was always ambitious and passed the sergeants ' examination at 24 . |
| 15 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 16 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 17 | Assistant director Bill Wilson and technical accountant Raymond Wood did some behind-the-scenes calculations and found the consultants ' conclusions wanting . |
| 18 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 19 | Instead , it seems , we have relied all too heavily on agency definitions and ignored the users ' perspective . |
| 20 | The Ministry of Economic Warfare hung on the periphery and stirred the witches ' brew . |
| 21 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 22 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 23 | She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year . |
| 24 | In the past twelve months , Namibia has confiscated eight Spanish trawlers and their cargo and fined the ships ' masters thousands of dollars after they were found guilty of fishing illegally in Namibian waters . |
| 25 | Frederica listened attentively ; went on and signed the Visitors ' Book . |
| 26 | He travelled in France in 1788 , 1789 and 1790 and founded the Farmers ' Club in 1794 . |
| 27 | Some of them sat on the grass , smoked cigarettes and watched the organizers ' bumbling attempts to set the rally in progress . |
| 28 | Victory for Cambridge president James Behrens and his crew — lighter , younger and less experienced than their rivals — arrested a miserable run of six successive defeats and 16 losses in the last 17 years and consolidated the victors ' all-time lead at 70 wins to 68 . |
| 29 | All of this transcended the frontiers of control and undermined the employers ' ability to manage . |
| 30 | and saw the boys ' wet heads glittering , |