Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 2 | Its site has not altered and the chancel arch ( the division between the parishioners ' area [ the nave ] and the rector 's area [ the chancel ] ) has remained in the same position for 1000 years or more , notwithstanding additions , alterations , and demolitions . |
| 3 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 4 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 5 | Phonogram are offering a reward of sorts for info about the shirts ' whereabouts and anyone who 's got something to say should give the boys in blue at Belgrade Road station a call on 021 626 4010 . |
| 6 | But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators . |
| 7 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 8 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 9 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 10 | Northern Transvaal no.8 Adriaan Richter and Wallaby no.8 Sam Scott-Young await the verdict during the Wallabies ' hard fought 24–7 win . |
| 11 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 12 | Both literary and non-literary writing will often develop from the interaction between the pupils ' own insights and what they have read ( or heard read ) in the classroom . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there is an interesting parallel between the five-year-olds ' poor performance in the deductive mode experiments and Wimmer and Perner 's ( 1983 ) finding that the ability to reason about another person 's false belief develops between the ages of four and six years . |
| 14 | He was chosen to design a new building for the Congregationalists ' Union Chapel in Islington . |
| 15 | In his ministerial programme submitted to parliament for the deputies ' vote of confidence on December 30 , Mr Badran said his government will study the legal and economic effects of martial law after taking steps to return suspended passports , restore the elected boards to the three Arabic dailies and abolish a previous martial law order to dissolve the Jordanian Writers Association . |
| 16 | It is a remarkable turnaround for the ex-Blues ' star , who never dreamed he would be offered such a lucrative post , having suffered so much frustration in the domestic game . |
| 17 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 18 | And , while the general right of beneficiaries to inspect trust documents was recognised in In re Londonderry 's Settlement [ 1965 ] Ch. 918 as being a proprietary right , that case does not provide support for the plaintiffs ' contention in the instant appeal . |
| 19 | Tug knew that that last bit about the terrorists ' demands was a lie . |
| 20 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |
| 21 | When buying look for the manufacturers ' ‘ cut-through ’ : a small section of the bed showing its construction . |
| 22 | Desert Orchid 's trainer can fill the gaps between the great horse 's latest achievements by dreaming of his first Classic success with Dead Certain , who became clear favourite for the fillies ' Classic with a courageous victory in yesterday 's Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket . |
| 23 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 24 | One actor I became friendly with , Terry , had done only agit-prop before , touring the country in a van with a company called Vanguard in a music-hall pastiche about the miners ' strike of 1972 called Dig ! |
| 25 | On many occasions in our study we found a sharp contrast between the professionals ' perception that a high degree of consensus had been reached and the parents ' perception that they had agreed to a course of action because they saw no other real choice , particularly if the urgent needs of the child and other family members were to be quickly met . |
| 26 | In any event , Ermold assumed that the parents would relish the description of their son , and be amused by the contrast between the adults ' formality and the child 's spontaneity ( though such licence may have been permitted only to under-sevens ) . |
| 27 | However , the mayoral offer of money for the dolphins ' release was not forthcoming , and much of the goodwill between fishermen , villagers and conservationists evaporated . |
| 28 | Major , who had a string of previous convictions , stood trial for the bookies ' robbery . |
| 29 | They have brain and heart and imagination and they 're off the life support after the Muses ' separation operation . |
| 30 | The elimination of Mr Santos , who had the support of President Jose Sarney has reduced the November 14 poll to a contest between the Workers ' Party candidate , Mr Luis Inacio da Silva , and Mr Leonel Brizola of the Democratic Labour Party for a place in the second round . |