Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political prisoners ' section is a three-storey building with access to a small patio . |
| 2 | A confederated employers ' organisation was set up in 1919 at the behest of the state which wanted a partner for the application of the new law on collective wage agreements . |
| 3 | Now whacky kids ' star is a proud dad |
| 4 | Ongoing counselling offered the opportunity to explore further areas ; regular reviews at the old peoples ' home are part of the necessary monitoring of the situation . |
| 5 | If not urgent , two clear days ' notice is required but is often waived . |
| 6 | The British Workers ' League was founded under Milner 's wing as a front organization that was linked in principle with the coalition as a whole but was run from the Unionist side . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The foreign investors ' share was to reduce from 60 to 30 per cent by 1990 ( Malaysia , 1973 : table 4.9 ) . |
| 10 | However , as a matter of principle it annoys Hon. Members to think that Welsh Members should adopt such an attitude , because millions of pounds of English taxpayers ' money are directed towards Wales . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | BRITISH taxpayers ' money is being used to fund Nazi-type population controls in Tibet , Liverpool MP David Alton has claimed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The former English Girls ' champion was able to compare notes with Fiona Brown , for the Cheshire player had the same experience during her 79 . |
| 16 | Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 . |
| 17 | Now that the Secretary of State has issued the timetable for the mergers of the regiments , can he confirm that , in the unlikely event of a Conservative victory , there is no prospect of the Scottish regiments ' future being reviewed ? |
| 18 | Brunei assumed the chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in mid-1988 , as a result of which the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting was held in Bandar Seri Begawan in July 1989 [ see p. 36817 ] . |
| 19 | But the Soviet leader had rather more success in prising discussions out of the West in that a foreign ministers ' conference was held about Germany in mid-1959 in Geneva . |
| 20 | The German soldiers ' equivalent is just a mass of fat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Male drivers ' arrogance is almost as bad as their aggression , it seems . |
| 23 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |
| 24 | For graciously though they shaped much of the music , the sounds were too lusty , too robust — and ultimately , much of the individual composers ' character was lost . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Is it possible that the Drunken Poets ' scene was in the original version of the show ? |
| 27 | On the evening of Thursday 13 September , architecture was celebrated at Portland Place : the first annual Trustees ' Medal was presented to Norman Foster for the Willis Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich . |
| 28 | But cognitive theories ' rationalism is male-identified , drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical , coherent thought . |
| 29 | The old political domination of governing bodies has largely been broken and a typical governors ' meeting is a business session not a social occasion . |
| 30 | They felt that there were some fundamental problems within the education system on the islands , problems that the official teachers ' union were failing to redress . |