Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inevitable lunch followed , since this is the opportunity for the PR executives heavily to plug the project to the assembled journalists ; and to the City boys such as myself and the various stockbrokers ' analysts so that we will continue to rate the company as a ‘ buy ’ . |
| 2 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 3 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 4 | The financial crises of 1929 and 1931 and the following years ' dramatic collapse in trade and production helped to lay the foundations for the new industries and the new international trading blocs that began in the 1930s and 1940s , and for the new international financial system established in the 1940s . |
| 5 | The AI representatives met government and security officials , including ministers and the armed forces ' Chief of General Staff , and interviewed victims of torture and other abuses , as well as other witnesses and human rights activists . |
| 6 | The Israeli representative at Lausanne knew this position , for a Ramallah delegate had proposed that Israel should agree to the repatriation of 400,000 refugees ‘ who would live in peace with Israel and act as a ‘ peace bridge' ’ between Israel and the Arab states ' . |
| 7 | The annual membership fee is £15 , ( there is a £3 enrolment fee for new members ) and the new members ' package consists of a Gilbert rugby ball , with Will Carling 's signature , a Young England Rugby Club T Shirt , a membership badge , a personalised membership card , and four editions of the Young England Rugby Club magazine ‘ Tryline ’ . |
| 8 | I hardly feel , sir , that erm erm you do n't have some influence on your salaries and the other directors ' salaries , I 've heard a lot of directors and chairmen say that they have no influence on their own salaries . |
| 9 | The debate revealed again the traditional animosity between the right-wing engineers and electricians unions and the left-wing miners ' union . |
| 10 | Moreover , they were the heirs of the regalists ' campaign against mortmain and the political economists ' attacks on the entailed mayorazgos . |
| 11 | Try Mary Love 's delicious ‘ You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet ’ , Lowell Fulsom 's ridiculous ‘ My Aching Back ’ ( poor Lowell is as good a lover as any younger man , he moans in pain ) and the Brilliant Corners ' ‘ Three Lonely Guys ’ , a record that owes a fiver to Sam Cooke 's ‘ Another Saturday Night ’ . |
| 12 | ( 9 ) If the bidder is proposing to offer consideration shares then , unless it already has sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and the appropriate directors ' authority to allot such shares , it will need to pass ordinary resolutions increasing its authorised share capital and granting the directors an authority under CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 13 | Certainly , on the union side , the central trade union body ( the LO ) attained much greater power and authority than either the TUC in Britain or the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) had tightly controlled powers over its affiliates since its inception . |
| 14 | Neither the government nor the consortium has consulted the area 's Indian peoples about the concession ; at least seven Indian communities of Caribs , Arawak , Warau and Akawaio lie within the concession and the Amerindian Peoples ' Association of Guyana has appealed for the concession to be suspended . |
| 15 | The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons ' Act ( 1970 ) and the Disabled Persons ' ( Services Advice and Representation ) Act ( 1986 ) also apply to Scotland . |
| 16 | They will also visit Brussels next week for discussions with MEPs and the European Metalworkers ' Federation . |
| 17 | It is within United 's reach to complete a most remarkable two years between May 1990 and May 1992 by landing all three domestic trophies and the European Cup-Winners ' Cup . |
| 18 | the disproportionally high failure rate of ethnic minorities students in the Bar Finals Course and the non-intending practitioners ' exams . |
| 19 | As part of the same appeal , Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Bishops ' Conferences of Europe call on every Catholic Church in Europe to set aside New Year 's Day as a ‘ special day of prayer for peace in Europe , and in particular in the Balkans ’ . |
| 20 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 21 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 22 | ONE OF the most discouraging aspects of the prolonged dispute between the Premier League and the Professional Footballers ' Association has been the Football Association 's failure to intervene , although this argument is bringing English football into disrepute . |
| 23 | The other two parties , the Patriotic Union and the Progressive Citizens ' Party , won 11 and 12 seats respectively . |
| 24 | Round table talks between the SED-PDS , the four other coalition or bloc parties ( Liberal Democratic party ( LDPD ) , Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , National Democratic Party ( NDPD ) and the Democratic Farmers ' Party ( DBP ) ) , the churches , and at least nine opposition groups , held on four occasions in December [ see p. 37108 ] , continued on Jan. 3 , 8 , 15 , 18 , 22 and 29 . |
| 25 | Once one budget round is over in March , the chief executive and the chief officers ' group will prepare papers for the policy and resources committee identifying key issues for deeper analysis , possible priorities for the next financial year , and areas for major economies . |
| 26 | And the great piste-bashers ' adventures of Europe — the Trois Vallees , Sella Ronda , Portes du Soleil — are not matched . |
| 27 | In this regard , it reaffirmed " the urgent need " for governments , as well as multilateral and private financial institutions , to take into account the relationship between foreign debt and the developing countries ' ability to address environmental issues . |
| 28 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 29 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 30 | At one extreme the Gallup poll for yesterday 's Sunday Telegraph — showing the two main parties level-pegging , with the Liberal Democrats on 22 per cent — would result in a hung parliament , but with the Conservatives as the largest single party with 305 seats , compared with Labour 's 298 and the Liberal Democrats ' 24 . |