Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housed in a former granary and cowshed , the displays show 19th and early 20th century material from the homes , farms , offices and craftsmen 's workshops of North Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | In 1532 , he again revealed the drift of his thinking by informing parliament that the clergy 's oath of allegiance to the pope was ‘ clean contrary to the oath that they make to us ’ . |
| 3 | In view of the scale and seniority of the clergy 's membership of parliament , it seems unwise to dismiss the possibility of their influence upon its procedures and business . |
| 4 | In residents ' association meetings , the clergy 's point of view received vocal support from one or two members of the older village community which preceded the housing estate . |
| 5 | Restored quarrymen 's cottages at Gloddfa Ganol show the social background of the industrial workers . |
| 6 | Perhaps because of their colouring , and also because of their romantic associations with decorative herds roaming half-wild across extensive parklands on gentlemen 's estates in days gone by , there have been more imaginative theories about the origins and development of the two colour-pointed breeds , especially the White Park , than about any other breed in Britain . |
| 7 | He would send notices of the book to his old school magazine and quietly pin up adverts for it in all the gentlemen 's clubs in London . |
| 8 | There followed the address of a well known gentlemen 's club in Victoria . |
| 9 | The management of S.C.F. 's not inconsiderable fleet of vehicles is of relatively high importance in considering the financial and physical performance of the Funds 's activities in Africa . |
| 10 | There are other provisions of the 1981 Act which have either created difficulties in practice ( as in the case of s.8 which is headed ‘ Confidentiality of Jury 's Deliberations ’ ) or which have been interpreted restrictively ( as in the case of s.10 , which is concerned with the protection of journalists ' sources of information ) . |
| 11 | There is a growing trend towards greater protection for journalists ' sources in Europe , according to Ms D'Souza . |
| 12 | Freedom of the press encompassed " journalists ' freedom of expression and of creation , access to sources of information , protection of independence and professional confidentiality , and the right to establish newspapers and other publications " . |
| 13 | Suddenly , I thought of St Bride 's , the journalists ' church in Fleet Street . |
| 14 | MP and broadcasting expert Roger Gale said : ‘ I think it just a cheap journalists ' trick on behalf of The Sun to try to score points over their rivals . ’ |
| 15 | Haughey 's resignation came after the speaker of the Senate and former Justice Minister , Sean Doherty , revealed that Haughey had been fully informed of the tapping of two journalists ' telephones by police in 1982 in an effort to trace Cabinet leaks . |
| 16 | Many drugs will be available over the counter instead of by doctor 's order only , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley told the Medical Journalists ' Association in London yesterday . |
| 17 | The journalists ' satisfaction at retribution on a man who sneered at Britain in her finest hour now sounds like delusive and individual rant . |
| 18 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 19 | I believe it was a V2 which demolished the Guards ' chapel in Knightsbridge during a service , killing dozens of men . |
| 20 | That night we stayed in the guards ' room with Mahmoud , but we had the feeling that other hostages were there , too . |
| 21 | Sarah 's father , Major Ronald Ferguson , is Charles 's polo manager , so she was frequently at Smith 's Lawn , the Guards ' Club in Windsor Great Park , where Charles was based , and inevitably she and Diana often sat chatting while the Prince played polo . |
| 22 | The ‘ talking like a lady ’ explanation is a mirror-image of Peter Trudgill 's suggestion — which is based once again on his Norwich informants ' responses to self-evaluation questions — that men give ‘ covert prestige ’ to working-class nonstandard speech , associating its roughness with masculinity . |
| 23 | " On Free and Latent Semantic Energy " , by Claes Schaar , is based on informants ' interpretation of fragments of language in isolation , such as literary quotations , maxims and sayings . |
| 24 | Auer 's remark that " It seems to be a rash conclusion to prefer informants ' comments on co-participants ' behaviour to the analyst 's reconstructive work " ( Auer 1984b : 94 ) and Gumperz " view that " I think generally speaking we can not but use informants ' reports " ( 1971 : 112 ) . |
| 25 | The Scots ' reputation for industry may be called into question if the results of a P-E International survey are to be believed |
| 26 | The Scots ' commissioners in London were far from pleased with this new English church , and one of them referred to it as ‘ but a lame , Erastian presbytery ’ . |
| 27 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 28 | It could be argued that the weights reflect the decision-makers ' theory of investment desirability , but what theory could rate NPV 333 per cent more important than process yield and ten times as important as basic R&D ? |
| 29 | But my barely-seared , griddled calves ' liver with beurre rouge was tender and perfect , and came with fat , greaseless chips . |
| 30 | He was educated at Bridgnorth School , and then apprenticed to a London clothworker , becoming a freeman in the Clothworkers ' Company of London in 1541 or 1542 ( and its master in 1559 ) . |