Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 2 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 3 | However , for the most part the fundholders ' business plans indicated that they planned to make savings in the prescribing element of their budgets rather than in hospital services . |
| 4 | In contrast the Situationists ' notion of pleasure is a negation of work in almost every sense of the word — a kind of involuntary idleness in the land of Cockaigne . |
| 5 | In contrast the Barbarians ' tries owed everything to thrilling running , crisp passing and a surprisingly high level of understanding between what was a hugely-talented collection of players , but nevertheless a scratch side . |
| 6 | On the morning of the election the parties ' colours , in the two horse race , were much in evidence . |
| 7 | In the 1950 election the Tories ' share of the vote recovered significantly , with Labour losing support among the middle classes of the southern suburbs in particular , although the Labour Party could still rely on enthusiastic working class support ( the turnout at the 1950 election was the highest ever ) . |
| 8 | To this day , it signifies almost better than any other building the Victorians ' love of spectacle and sentiment and their confidence that a new world order could be created out of a massive syncretism . |
| 9 | In the stand the Directors ' Box emptied quickly but two men , sitting together , did not join in the rapid movement towards the Board Room . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State took on board the consultants ' recommendations and , in November 1988 , sanctioned the extension of MDC 's boundaries . |
| 11 | Of course the supermarkets ' aim is to make fat profits and they are not really in the business of doing their customers favours . |
| 12 | I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters ' Club give for raffle prizes . |
| 13 | In the event , Palmerston and Russell agreed to sink their differences and with a united opposition the Conservatives ' days were numbered . |
| 14 | For example , in this study the patients ' sex and the length of time since diagnosis were both significantly associated with glycaemic control , as were the treatment group and number of diabetes related events in the previous 10 years . |
| 15 | In the extract below they refer to the effect the teachers ' attitudes have on their behaviour and on the way prejudices appear to match their gradations of colour : |
| 16 | In essence the courts ' control over the conditions of jurisdiction is premised upon the assumption that they are thereby effectuating the will of Parliament ; they are ensuring that the tribunal or authority remains within the boundaries of what Parliament intended it to examine by ensuring that those conditions are present . |
| 17 | No wonder the Socialists ' manifesto offers measures to reduce unemployment , invest Ptas500 billion ( $1 billion ) in training over the next four years , and build 500,000 new houses . |
| 18 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 19 | Justin 's pupil Tatian from Mesopotamia developed with a sarcastic pen the philosophers ' dependence on Moses , which he argued with elaborate synchronisms from ancient chroniclers proving the priority of Moses . |
| 20 | As an initial reaction the girls ' parents might have been shocked by what they got up to . |
| 21 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 22 | During a match the players ' level of fitness decreases steadily , or suddenly if injured ! |
| 23 | Between 1916 and 1920 membership of the NALRWU grew from 4000 to 93000 , while at the end of the same period the Workers ' Union ( the precursor of the TGWU ) contained an estimated 120000 farm workers . |
| 24 | What Mr Alexander establishes is the vital contrast between external sanctity and order and the lust , violence , madness and panic that fuel the characters ' actions . |
| 25 | In that event the players ' registrations would be taken over by the League and transfer fees payable to Lytham . |
| 26 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 27 | The photographs show you something of what you will see — underground roadways , coal-faces , haulage engines , and on the surface the blacksmiths ' shop , the baths , and exhibitions . |
| 28 | At the beginning the immigrants ' lack of experience and poor organization hampered mobilization , and so other workers struck first . |
| 29 | In the 64th minute the Lions ' control was threatened when flanker Apollo Perelini was part of a two-on-one against Ieuan Evans , who had no chance to stop the try that Carter converted . |
| 30 | In a significant change of emphasis the governors ' meeting on April 13-14 agreed to abolish the ceiling of 6 per cent of bank lending which could go to the former Soviet Union ( corresponding to the Soviet Union 's 6 per cent holding in the EBRD ) , and to allow up to 40 per cent of the EBRD 's lending to go to former Soviet republics . |