Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ' [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he told little aphorisms from Rumi or the anecdotes of Ferdowsi 's Shah Nama — the Mughal Emperors ' favourite storybook-his gentle voice soothed away the irritations of modern Delhi . |
| 2 | ‘ Just for old times ' sake I went , not that there is much to see ! |
| 3 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 4 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 5 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 6 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 7 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 8 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 9 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 10 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 11 | Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker . |
| 12 | A South Korean government delegation led by Prime Minister Kang Young Hoon visited North Korea on Oct. 16-19 for a second session of the joint Premiers ' talks which had begun in September . |
| 13 | On the licensing of overseas editions : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated in line with standard publishers ' rates which will be payable on the Publisher 's net receipts , but the Publisher shall be entitled to deduct from its net receipts any direct or first costs |
| 14 | They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism . |
| 15 | Also in Germany it has been claimed that cartelisation ( reflecting the later date , and a particular mode , of industrialisation ) gave rise to strongly structured employers ' organisations which attained an authority over their members that was never to exist in the smaller diversified and undercapitalised industrial enterprises in France ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 17 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 18 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 19 | It publishes a monthly newsletter and a monthly Investors ' Handbook which builds up into a comprehensive reference manual covering all aspects of share investment . |
| 20 | Darned counsel with tears in his eyes , murmuring about stalwart butchers ' sons who strayed from the path , and , after all , it was only paste . |
| 21 | During the latter half of 1990 intercommunal and linguistic tensions were again raised by a long-running teachers ' strike which from September severely disrupted both state and private schools in French-speaking Wallonia , where teachers were demanding pay increases in line with those paid in ( more prosperous ) Flanders . |
| 22 | As the sells his beers to the free trade and to national brewers ' pubs he has noticed both the swingeing price increases imposed by the brewing giants and the reaction among their tenants . |
| 23 | The measures attracted criticism from the National Magistrates ' Association which on June 12 issued a document arguing that a more wide-ranging " cleaning-up of politics and the administration " was needed . |
| 24 | In a re-run Senate by-election in Lublin on June 11 , the Citizens ' Committee candidate won almost 51 per cent of the vote against his opponent from Private Farmers ' Solidarity who took just over 48 per cent . |
| 25 | Social workers who want to give serious attention to an elderly couples ' relationship which is causing unhappiness might find it helpful to find a colleague with whom to talk through their feelings about doing marital work , including the discussion of sexuality with an elderly couple . |
| 26 | Two non-constituency Council seats were designated for financial services and for sole practitioner representation , and following a resolution at last year 's Annual General Meeting , the Society made an initial pump-priming grant to a newly formed sole practitioners ' group which subsequently achieved Law Society group status . |
| 27 | Moscow was operating within the United Nations ' scenario which would leave the present regime in place after the departure of Soviet troops . |
| 28 | How do smaller companies meet their capital raising requirements , particularly in emergence from recession ; particularly in the face of venture capitalists , many of whom have become more renowned for risk averse than risk taking strategies ; particularly in the face of clearing banks ' policy which does not exactly involve them rushing to throw loan finance about as they emerge from one of the most traumatic periods in their history ; and particularly in the face of the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) with no successor currently in sight ? |
| 29 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 30 | ‘ Optioning ’ , they call it ; nicking best-selling authors ' plot-lines we call it , but increasingly novels have formed the bedrock of Hollywood 's biggest grossing films . |