Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither party offered a workable plan to rescue Serbia 's crumbling economy , but the SPS attracted strong workers ' support by promising continued full employment . |
| 2 | Both the French and Scottish groups undertook two weeks ' work experience and a week of language and social activity abroad . |
| 3 | Revisionist scholars began to make full use of the primary material published in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ; the cultural thaw and the opening up of debate among specialists within the Soviet Union increased readiness to take seriously new research by Soviet scholars ; from the late 1950s a series of cultural exchange agreements between the USSR and the major western democracies facilitated western scholars ' access to Soviet libraries and , to a much more limited extent , to archives . |
| 4 | The issue of direct application of Directive 76/207 has more recently been debated in the European Court in the case of Foster v. British Gas [ 1991 ] 2 WLR 258 , where it was held that provisions of a Directive which were capable of having direct effect could be relied upon by bodies made responsible by the state for providing a public service under state control where such bodies held –special powers ' in relation to such a function . |
| 5 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 6 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 7 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 8 | He and the others got six months ' hard labour — the repression in 1835 was much gentler than in 1830 because the problem was so limited . |
| 9 | Streamlined trams provided separate drivers ' cabs , 1930s . |
| 10 | Residents packed All Saints ' Church hall for a public meeting which organisers hoped would rally opposition to the proposed £15m. superstore at Blands Corner . |
| 11 | Prior to this , on this site in the Middle Ages stood twenty burghers ' houses , with the Romanesque Church of St Wenceslas at one end , and the Gothic Church of St Nicholas , which had heard the preaching of some of the great 14C reformers , at the other . |
| 12 | A fishing agreement was considered necessary by February 1991 , when the squid fishing season began , because the squid fishing grounds straddled both countries ' fishing zones . |
| 13 | At the start of the talks the Jordanian and Palestinian delegations asserted Palestinian refugees ' " right of return " ( as embodied in UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1948 ) , despite US appeals not to raise the issue . |