Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty and related documents , including separate protocols and declarations , were signed by the 12 countries ' Foreign and Finance Ministers . |
| 2 | The six brothers ' direct descendants were called the che gaon ki gor ( six village clan ) and similarly the artisans and their descendants were the twelve village clan , the labourers were the twenty four village clan and right near the bottom of the caste hierarchy came the shoemakers with their clan of ‘ several ’ villages . |
| 3 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 4 | The next meeting will be on the second of the 1991 Schools ' Open Days , Friday 26 April . |
| 5 | The three groups ' stated support for the conference aroused high hopes , and on March 14 Amos Sawyer , interim president installed by the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) standing mediation committee , called in a broadcast for " magnanimity of spirit " and a national reconciliation . |
| 6 | At last , came the joyful day when the holes were carefully bored into the three Scouts ' dorsal flesh in the Apothacarion , and through their subcutaneous carapaces which were now fully fledged … |
| 7 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |
| 8 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 9 | And her flights of memory are carried through lyric dance sequences that nicely exploit the five dancers ' fluent technique . |
| 10 | The classic source for data on the two belligerents ' respective financial positions , the IMF 's International Financial Statistics , does not present a complete picture . |
| 11 | In the area of defence , the foremost claimant for government funds in time of war , the picture available of the two belligerents ' military machines , like that of their finances , is not always very clear . |
| 12 | She told Lily everything , but no one else , except Aunt Millie who was Ma 's older sister and the two girls ' greatest ally . |
| 13 | Yet the two females ' apparent significance also made him uneasy : he did not relish the revenge these men might mete out to him and his fellows if Sycorax were to die , or Ariel come to further harm . |
| 14 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 15 | According to chairman Noorda , Novell has no plans to move Unix Labs headquarters from New Jersey to Utah ; rather the two companies ' respective strengths in the East and West Coast would count as advantages in the future ; even now in fact they were ‘ geographically separate , but mentally close ’ . |
| 16 | NEC Corp is entering systems integration agreements with Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co in Japan , and plans to offer the two companies ' RISC-based servers alongside its personal computers : it says its primary focus will be the market for multimedia systems . |
| 17 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 18 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 19 | Gorbachev , at the two leaders ' concluding press conference , described the summit as an ‘ event of enormous importance for our bilateral relations ’ and added that one could now speak of a ‘ new phase of cooperation ’ between the two countries . |
| 20 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 21 | In a speech delivered on Nov. 16 Zhu indicated that China was fully prepared to link its dispute with the UK over Hong Kong with the two countries ' future economic relations . |
| 22 | The two countries ' joint campaigning body , Stop Acid Rain , is unremitting in its promotion of the case against acid rain . |
| 23 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 24 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 25 | The main item on the agenda will be reduction of troop numbers along the two countries ' common border . |
| 26 | A breakthrough occurred at the funeral of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in February 1989 when Suharto held talks with Qian , and the two countries ' respective UN missions as a consequence began normalization talks [ see pp. 36462 ; 36935 ; 37124 ; 37578 ] . |
| 27 | He convened a group within the cabinet to wrest control of Japan 's end of the two countries ' Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks from the civil servants . |
| 28 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 29 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that Arens made a request for greater US-Israeli co-ordination , including sharing of so-called " friend-or-foe " recognition codes to avoid conflict between the two countries ' military aircraft in the event of Israel entering the conflict . |
| 30 | During a visit by the Italian President , Francesco Cossiga , in November , the two countries ' Foreign Ministers signed a protocol on the construction of a fourth gas pipeline across the Mediterranean and on increased co-operation in the petrochemicals sector . |