Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called deputies ' science and technology working group was asked to nominate people within their agencies to serve on panels that will develop policies for 15 topics ranging from specific issues such as medical technology to basic research itself . |
| 2 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 3 | As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party . |
| 4 | In some SSDs , relations with the police are dire , joint training is in tatters , and little is being done to build social workers ' confidence and skills are growing , and successful prosecutions have been achieved using the memorandum . |
| 5 | The conference , which will take place on 4 June at Chartered Accountants ' Hall and costs £399.50 , is open to anyone . |
| 6 | Richard Aitkenhead was head of the Guatemalan Managers ' Association and was connected with the PAN leadership . |
| 7 | Above left : ‘ Cecil ’ Leitch , the British , French , Canadian and English Ladies ' Champion and President of Henley Ladies 1920–25 . |
| 8 | No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre . |
| 9 | He tried to devise new and better ways of operating the machines in the bottle works where he was employed and , realizing that he needed to increase his knowledge of science and mathematics if he was to exploit his ideas , he went in the evenings to the nearby Mechanics ' Institute and also took lessons in trigonometry from a local clergyman . |
| 10 | Helen Dobson , British Ladies ' Champion and Stroke-play Champion , and Elaine Farquharson , runner-up in the British Amateur , have been chosen to represent Great Britain in the International Ladies ' Doubles Amateur Championship , at Sao Paulo , Brazil , in October . |
| 11 | There was the usual pub smell of stale tobacco but the river Thames laps against the old smugglers ' inn and its odours mingle with the rest . |
| 12 | Other special services followed : The Reverend Wesley Gray brought the Dundonald Ladies ' Choir ; a team of nurses came from Lurgan and Portadown Hospital and a team of laymen came from Belfast : Thomas Street Old Boys ' Band and the Old Girls ' Association Choir came and one service was taken by Mr Donald Woodman BEM BA and the Portadown College School Choir . |
| 13 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 14 | ‘ They do n't consult us on the agenda of the foreign ministers ' meeting and they do n't treat us as equal partners , ’ says a Czech diplomat . |
| 15 | Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will turn to time and time again . |
| 16 | Start collecting our superb free Gardeners ' Manual and month by month it will build into a reference book you will want to return to time and time again . |
| 17 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 18 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 19 | She has just launched Starting Out — the real beginners ' workout and Fat Burning Workout — to help you burn off fat and lose weight . |
| 20 | After a broken rudder , an unlucky windshift , a dubious umpires ' penalty and meeting rivals New Zealand and Il Moro di Venezia on the top of their form , the luckless Nippon 's 150lb carbon-fibre boom crumpled six minutes before the start of her second clash with Il Moro . |
| 21 | I thought a cup of sweet English tea or warm camels ' milk and clove and a sleep , and certainly not to take the wheel of one of the cars on their way to Al Ain . |
| 22 | I was discussing business contracts with my husband and waiting for a call from my own children who would rock with laughter if I prescribed a dose of warm camels ' milk and clove for a poor stomach and headache . |
| 23 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 26 | There 's something demeaning about Spielberg 's attempts to incorporate modern American youth culture : the Lost Boys ' rapping and skateboarding , more than anything , will prevent this movie from becoming a timeless classic . |
| 27 | Selection criteria were specified , including the requirements that the solicitor 's office be reasonably accessible to the appropriate magistrates ' court and that the solicitor have sufficient criminal advocacy experience during the previous 18 months . |
| 28 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
| 29 | The official National Council resolution ‘ deeply deploring ’ the Anglo Catholics ' language and their audacity in referring to the Reformation as a ‘ flagrant wrong ’ , resolved that such behaviour was inconsistent with ‘ the letter and … spirit of their contract with the State ’ . |
| 30 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |