Example sentences of "[adj] in the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now 18 clear in the jockeys ' table , the Ulsterman has the Midas touch at present and he must be regretting that next week the seasonal festivities mean three days without racing . |
| 2 | Floy had been interested in the Gnomes ' sketches ; like Fenella , he found the Gnomes rather attractive , friendly people and he thought their designs were clever and subtle and beautifully drawn . |
| 3 | Butcher is more interested in the dancers ' pure energy , in the basic building blocks of line , space and time . |
| 4 | Being ‘ dog people ’ they were interested in the poodles ' performance and commented on what lovely dogs , ‘ Pity you do n't know how to show them to their best advantage . ’ |
| 5 | We were particularly interested in the practices ' subjective assessments of the impact of this change on practice management and patient care . |
| 6 | From Tom Lofthouse I had heard he was not popular in the Doctors ' House , yet , conversely and amazingly to anyone who had been his junior , our Dr Jones rated as a favourite pin-up in the Staff Nurse 's Home . |
| 7 | He was also largely instrumental in the Casuals ' home ground becoming The Oval for a number of years . |
| 8 | Analysis of ceramic material from a cremation and inhumation cemetery on the Isle of Wight revealed that cremation urns , which may also be early in the cemeteries ' histories , were made from local clay sources , whereas more unusual forms of pottery were made from sources foreign to the island and were found as grave-goods with inhumations ; they are types most commonly found in Kent . |
| 9 | that of combination , predominant in the foxes ' , and Class 2 , that of persistence of aggregates , predominant in the ‘ lions ’ . |
| 10 | A quiet swear word now serves instead of a punch-up with one of her woods , while she had encouraging finishes such as a fourth equal in the Players ' Championship at Tytherington and a fifth place in the recent Gislaved Ladies ' Open in Sweden . |
| 11 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 12 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |
| 13 | If torture was involved in the pilots ' remarks this week — and many remember the UN investigations of Iraq 's treatment of prisoners during the war with Iran — the rules were broken . |
| 14 | Made for television and to be shown at Easter , it is about Lawrence of Arabia , or rather Lawrence after Arabia , back from the desert and involved in the Allies ' post-war negotiations over the map of the Middle East . |
| 15 | This ‘ hard line strategy ’ reveals yet again the contradictions inherent in the Conservatives ' law and order policy . |
| 16 | The third defendant issued a third party notice against the plaintiffs ' accountant claiming an indemnity or contribution in the event of the third defendant being held liable to the plaintiffs , on the ground that the accountant had negligently failed to warn the plaintiffs of the risks inherent in the defendants ' transactions . |
| 17 | Confronted with the new philosophy that winning is the name of the game , student rugby , with its romantic vision of fun and entertainment , seemed increasingly out of touch with the pragmatic reality prevailing in the unions ' corridors of power . |
| 18 | Liberia 's tribal bloodbath was especially awful in the cities ' crowded slums . |
| 19 | Maoism , with its emphasis on the countryside surrounding the cities , has been influential , particularly in Peru , where it is strong in the teachers ' unions and is the ideology of the Shining path guerrilla movement . |
| 20 | The circumstances in which an inherent uncertainty is regarded as fundamental in the auditors ' opinion must be identified but auditors should use words that clearly indicate their opinion on the financial statements is not qualified in respect of the paragraph 's contents . |
| 21 | Much will depend upon the degree to which divisional/ SBU ROI figures are important in the managers ' reward system . |
| 22 | The question doubtless uppermost in the vendors ' mind will be price and the purchaser 's response when pressed on this point should be carefully considered in advance . |
| 23 | By the start of the new term in the autumn of 1988 , the negative aspects of the ‘ tide ’ were uppermost in the authorities ' minds . |
| 24 | Those Jesuits were probably quite big in the Indians ' history . |
| 25 | It is quite common in the futures ' market to sell one obligation to deliver specified commodities repeatedly during a trading day . |
| 26 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 27 | Still active in the students ' movement , I continued to struggle for recognition of our oppressions as women , lesbians and gays , and people with disabilities . |
| 28 | Hutchinson was also active in the Ironmongers ' Company of London , of which he had purchased the freedom . |