Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shakespeare 's drama is celebrated for its poetry , a compliment that on the surface suggests ideologically neutral approval of its language , but which also belies suppositions about the attitudes the plays ' language articulates . |
| 2 | In both cases the parents ' resignation to the inevitability of the assessment outcome arose from their having no opportunity to determine or seriously influence the objectives of the assessment nor to contribute to the conceptual framework within which their children 's needs were being assessed . |
| 3 | In other cases the parents ' view of what their child should be able to do is appropriate but the child is showing a delay in his or her development and needs more detailed assessment of the level of progress . |
| 4 | The Dickens study reported that 55 per cent of applicants and 67 per cent of respondents were represented , though in the remaining cases the companies ' representatives ' status could not be readily identified ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | The articles of association of each company , or , in some cases the shareholders ' agreement , lay down the procedures for share valuation . |
| 6 | Within such groups the males ' competitiveness for females produced a strongly hierarchical sequence of ranks . |
| 7 | The company was floated shortly after that with the shares selling at six times the auditors ' valuation . |
| 8 | In all schools the governors ' obligation to report on the discharge of their functions obviously includes their response to special educational needs , and in special schools is synonymous with it . |
| 9 | Without turn-out , tutus and pointe shoes the dancers ' bodies still have the same physical apparatus as before and if bodies are to dance at all they must submit to some form of discipline . |
| 10 | These rules were based on the knowledge of what movements the dancers ' bodies were capable . |
| 11 | In those circumstances the Raiders ' record of three defeats in four games proved unacceptable . |
| 12 | As the waves crashed round the hilltops the wizards ' palaces broke free and floated on the surface of the waves . |
| 13 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 14 | These days the Sandinistas ' party anthem , which refers to the US government as the ‘ enemies of humanity ’ , sounds quaintly out of date . |
| 15 | In recent years the officers ' freedom to divorce professional judgement from political calculation has , in many authorities , diminished sharply , and today 's chief officers are increasingly coming ‘ to see their role as less than that of a neutral professional or technocrat and more that of a bureaucratic politician ’ ( Laffin and Young , 1985 , p. 51 ) . |
| 16 | Over the years the Ladies ' Minutes , whilst complete , give no more than a glimpse of the main Club 's activity , but it can be deduced that clubhouse alterations were made in 1914 and again in 1920 at which period the course was also altered . |
| 17 | After 75 years the founders ' aim was on the verge of realisation . |
| 18 | The University of Walkato , Hamilton , New Zealand reached its 25th Anniversary in 1989 and as part of the celebrations a Graduates ' Association was formed . |
| 19 | There are individual deals the players ' company has no control over . |
| 20 | On the foregoing conditions the Goldsmiths ' Company will grant to the Corporation a lease of the School Buildings and Land connected therewith free of rent for 999 years , and will give them a perpetual endowment of £290 per annum in addition to the sum of £10 which they are bound to pay under the will of Sir Edmond Shaa ; but the Lease and the Endowment Grant shall contain clauses giving the Goldsmiths ' Company the right of re-entry in the one case and making the annuity to cease in the other on breach of any or either of the conditions above named . " |
| 21 | In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ . |
| 22 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 23 | It is futile to judge by modern standards the Abyssinians ' treatment of their prisoners : theirs were still the standards of the Middle Ages . |
| 24 | The students ( all over 18 years of age ) chose a topic of interest to themselves and of potential use to others The students ' aim was to produce a database and they were thus involved in skills of defining their information needs , planning methods of acquiring information , and assessing the information needs of the users of the database . |
| 25 | To avoid confusion between the different arrows the keys ' names are used in the Guide instead of their symbols , except in the case of the four arrowed direction keys , where both are given . |
| 26 | Like the GMC 's recommendations the deans ' suggestion may seem superficially attractive , but it too lacks any semblance of realism about how it might be implemented . |