Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite anti-imperialist demonstrations , public meetings , numerous articles and pamphlets , and a newspaper called the Workers ' Republic , he won few converts . |
| 2 | They set up a new organisation called the Sub-Tenants ' Committee , which would campaign ‘ not on political but on humanitarian grounds ’ . |
| 3 | If a group claiming to speak on behalf of elderly people had failed to deliver because its own interests were at variance with those of its wider public , the absence of any promotional or representative body during the following decade rendered the pensioners ' position still more hazardous . |
| 4 | In addition , Accountancy Television 's Business Account offers a weekly one-hour video service through BBC Select , while the Television Education Network produces a monthly video-based service called the Accountants ' Education Channel . |
| 5 | Actual performance needed , however , to be evaluated against potential performance given the units ' position in the market at the beginning of the five-year period . |
| 6 | Anne Keddy Hector , Robert Seyfarth and Michael Raleigh at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania have been studying parental behaviour among captive vervets to see if males ' parental ability affected the females ' choice of mate . |
| 7 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 8 | It will use women 's magazines and a booklet called The Beginners ' Guide to highlight the ease and variety of preparations . |