Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TOP Ulster girls ' school has appointed its first Catholic headmistress . |
| 2 | We are grateful to Hazel Fox , Harriet Dawes , Judith Manches , Judith Bridge , Vicky Andrew , Ann Upton , Elizabeth Potter , Nadja Tollemache and Tracy Minns for gifts of money , to Katrina Crossley for a valuable contact with the publisher Butterworths , and to the newly-formed Somerville Lawyers ' Group for the promise of continuing support . |
| 3 | Pupils from 16 Colchester schools went to the University of Essex to take part in the 43rd annual Colchester Schools ' Music Festival . |
| 4 | The brainchild of the Central Scotland Patients ' Association , the group is recruiting members and hopes to be operational by the end of the year at the latest . |
| 5 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 6 | For example , in May 1974 the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council called a successful strike in protest at the Sunningdale proposals for power-sharing between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 8 | The application must be against someone who is likely to be a party to proceedings but this can extend to cases where even the bringing of these proceedings depends on what is in the documents ( Dunning v United Liverpool Hospitals ' Board of Governors [ 1973 ] 2 All ER 454 ) . |
| 9 | Vice-chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls agreed to demands from a majority of the informal BCCI creditors ' committee for more time to consider the deal , under which the bank 's majority shareholders in Abu Dhabi will inject nearly £1 billion . |
| 10 | One day he picked up one of the elongated putters used to such devastating effect on the fabulously rich US Seniors ' Tour by such as Orville Moody , a notoriously fragile performer on the greens until he turned 50 . |
| 11 | Version 5.0 of Redwood City , California-based Ross Systems ' GemBase 4GL is now available in the UK for DEC OpenVMS , Ultrix , OSF/1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP-UX : +44 272 221850 . |
| 12 | AWARD-WINNING NEW DESIGN — Marie , another successful Johnson Brothers ' pattern in the casual tableware collection , scooped a national industrial design award this year . |
| 13 | Mike Loosley , general secretary of the Inner London Teachers ' Association - the area union branch — said yesterday : ‘ There 's no getting away from the fact that a child sent home on a particular day as a result of our action will be suffering . |
| 14 | Certified accountant Tony Berry , former chairman and chief executive of the Blue Arrow employment agency and one time darling of the City , faces action by the Department of Trade and Industry to disqualify him from acting as a company director , following publication of a highly critical DTI inspectors ' report into Blue Arrow 's management . |
| 15 | The Euge boys are whipping up considerable consternation over here largely because , as every single Atlantic Records ' employee is wont to point out , the fella from Nirvana likes ‘ em . |
| 16 | United National Party ( UNP , Ranasinghe Premadasa l. , Sirisena Cooray gen. sec. ) , with a minor coalition party , the Tamil-based Ceylon Workers ' Congress ( CWC , S. Thondaman l . ) . |
| 17 | Pick up new BBC Gardeners ' World magazine and you 'll find food for thought from some of the country 's favourite gardening personalities . |
| 18 | Adam Pasco , editor of the new BBC Gardeners ' World , brings you a guide to kitchen crops |
| 19 | The same is true of NT in the wake of the recent NT developers ' conference . |
| 20 | Silicon Graphics Inc says it 's giving a lot more headroom to software these days and is looking hard at NT in the wake of the recent NT developers ' conference ; it also wants to get into the high-end Apple Computer Inc Macintosh market and migrate those users over to ‘ real machines ’ that let them realise some of their hopes and dreams but it ca n't see itself going below the $5,000 mark . |
| 21 | Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors . |
| 22 | In the next few days the family will arrange for her to have a check-up at the Royal Manchester Childrens ' Hospital , where she will become an outpatient . |
| 23 | Join a local RSPB members ' group ( get the address from the RSPB regional office ) and go on the outings if you can . |