Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 61 | This pretty village is one of the Moors ' ‘ honeypots ’ . |
| 62 | One of the apprentices ' last projects was to build a microlight aircraft to fly to Gibraltar . |
| 63 | Law and order should be one of the Tories ' strongest cards , but record crime figures have tarnished their record . |
| 64 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 65 | 1.10 am , Birmingham Selly Oak : Anthony Beaumont-Dark is one of the Tories ' most voluble MPs and if he loses the country will be a quieter place . |
| 66 | The decision removed one of the rebels ' principal grievances and was expected to strengthen Frelimo 's position at the negotiating table . |
| 67 | It is worth remembering that the London merchant Richard Lyons , who had been impeached in 1376 , was one of the rebels ' victims five years later . |
| 68 | Unfortunately , safety was not one of the Dreadnoughts ' strong points , and there were some horrible accidents were one car , failing to stop in time , piled into the back of the other injuring and even killing passengers on the steps . |
| 69 | Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports . |
| 70 | According to some , code-breaking was one of the allies ' most important weapons . |
| 71 | One of the chemists ' major aims is to discover why these particular compounds work . |
| 72 | In the event of a failure of one of the lexicographers ' printers , the 3812 may be configured for their use . |
| 73 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 74 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 75 | Failing him , Sir Giles Shaw , a former minister but more widely seen as one of the back-benchers ' own , would be suitable . |
| 76 | Ryanne one of the yanks ' names the other night , Ryanne . |
| 77 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 78 | Xorandor is capable of wordplay , he even puns on Shakespeare : ‘ softwarily we are observed ’ ( 179 ) , and he gives a reply to one of the twins ' questions that they later discover to have been ‘ syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous ’ ( 183–4 ) . |
| 79 | Steve Riley , one of the Founders ' representatives on the Board , asked him to stay . |
| 80 | The crossing of borders artistic , national , and generational is one of the founders ' main intentions , and the projects currently being planned are all multi-media . |
| 81 | There will be no sections for the different media : the crossing of borders artistic , national , and generational is one of the founders ' main intentions , and the projects currently being planned are all multi-media . |
| 82 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 83 | The position could arise whereby the United States attempts to ensure one of the parties ' access through these waterways as against a non-party to the Peace Treaty . |
| 84 | Not so good luck for the Veterans A side in Division One of the Veterans ' Section , who went down 7–2 to Romford A. Derek Wood and Dave Binns took a point apiece for Clacton . |
| 85 | Welcome back : It 's St Patrick 's Day , and one of the regions ' most talented musical families is celebrating with a fantasy voyage into the past . |
| 86 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 87 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 88 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 89 | The Commission welcomes the much improved standard of instrumental playing which is one of the schools ' greatest recent success stories . |
| 90 | ‘ I mean , look at this one , ’ said the interviewer , becoming quite indignant and picking one of the schools ' letters contemptuously from the pile . |