Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Ireland Office pushed the line that the strike was an attempted coup by Paisley and most of the media accepted it uncritically despite the fact that the Democratic Unionist Party , of which he was leader , was only one of three political parties in the UUAC and that the Ulster Workers ' Council , which carried most of the industrial muscle , was beholden to no political party or personality . |
| 2 | Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ? |
| 3 | Reared in the idealism of the Christian Socialists , Margaret Llewelyn Davies became convinced that the Rochdale Pioneers ' theory of co-operation provided an ideal basis for society , and joined the Marylebone branch of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , which had been formed in 1883 . |
| 4 | The parents ' solicitor said that the Dewsbury parents ' action had ‘ shown the tremendous value of parents fighting for their rights ’ . |
| 5 | Helped by Vladimir Riha 's reedy , unhoneyed tone , this performance comes over with irresistible rustic pungency and vigour as if in the open air rather than the Beaux Arts ' drawingroom . |
| 6 | New products for molecular biology research included a pipette for DNA amplification procedures and the Bioprobe Systems ' products for hybridisation , electrophoresis and DNA sequencing , chromogenic reagents and specialist membranes . |
| 7 | Inspired by the success of Film On Four and the ITV companies ' recent forays into film-making ( like Granada 's My Left Foot ) , the BBC has finally taken the plunge into the feature-film market , in partnership with Palace Pictures and British Screen . |
| 8 | Teletext — Ceefax and the ITV companies ' Oracle — is a fairly big success . |
| 9 | More than £500 was collected during the day and the Minehead Ladies ' guild was one of three charities to benefit from the collection . |
| 10 | Paul Nicholas dimples charmingly as Aladdin , which gets the girls screaming ; Paul Shane holiday-camps around as Widow Twankey ; and the Simmons brothers ' double act as the Chinese Policemen is actually quite funny . |
| 11 | Topping the list is New York Mets ' outfielder Bobby Bonilla at $6.1 million , with New York Yankees ' Danny Tartabull and the Texas Rangers ' Ruben Sierra runners-up on $5 million . |
| 12 | Gib acht ! ’ ( matched to perfection by the extraordinary sensitivity of her accompanists ) , and the Tölz Boys ' Choir are engagingly fresh and alert sounding in their charming little ‘ Bimm bamm ’ . |
| 13 | The first was television and the Hollywood moguls ' abject refusal to have anything whatsoever to do with it . |
| 14 | Determined to maintain these isolated villages as functional units separate from contaminating ideologies such as those purveyed by the Labour party and the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association , the companies stressed the unity of the model villages . |
| 15 | But the CGT technicians ' section came out in support of the students for workers ' control . |
| 16 | But the ITV companies ' disinclination to schedule sport is more critical . |
| 17 | When the London Brewers ' Company resolved in 1442 to keep its records in English , it justified its decision by the fact that Henry had preferred the ‘ common idiom ’ in his letters ( 135 , pp.117–19 ) . |
| 18 | Before Tiananmen , when the Peking students ' mourning for Hu Yaobang , the deposed Communist Party boss , was evolving into political protest , Hong Kong had watched with amazement . |
| 19 | The Tories were perilously close to defeat when the April Fools ' Day polls pointed to a majority Labour Government . |
| 20 | Then , as the Rutshire ponies ' girths were loosened and they were washed down , scraped and walked round by the grooms , Drew called a brief team meeting . |