Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The runners found themselves unfairly rebuked for the market-makers ' errors , and for their whimsical misquotes or bid-only quotes that could ruin a deal . |
| 2 | It relates to the reasons given for the justices ' decision . |
| 3 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 4 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 5 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 6 | And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) . |
| 7 | He is blamed for the Tories ' allegedly disastrous campaign . |
| 8 | Controversial clash with the RSC begins over Wesker 's play , The Journalists , which is cancelled after an actors ' rebellion . |
| 9 | They attack high-protein leaves , more acidic ones having less available protein , the optimum pH for the fungus ( pH 5 ) being reached when the material is mixed with the ants ' acidic faeces : then the fungus can break down the hydrolysable tannin/protein complexes . |
| 10 | The entrance was an inferno of petrol fires as flames flared and flickered across the water , sending a black column of heavy smoke mixed with the MLs ' white smoke-screens slowly rolling north-west on the still night air above the wrecked boats . |
| 11 | Quality is improved and costs reduced if the components are designed with the suppliers ' most efficient manufacturing process in mind . |
| 12 | The Arabs from Spidex , who set up the deal , have vanished with the Iranians ' money and , they suspect , their arms shipment . |
| 13 | ARSENAL keeper David Seaman and midfielder David Hillier are fit to face Manchester United today after being substituted in the Gunners ' 3–0 crash at Leeds . |
| 14 | The prison kitchen was located in the short-termers ' compound . |
| 15 | However , tactical considerations may dictate that some conditions and definition terms are omitted from the vendors ' draft of the heads . |
| 16 | The silent war between the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders did not last long , for by 1748 the imprimatur had been dropped from the Upholders ' blank funeral invitations and we no longer hear from the United Company of Undertakers again . |
| 17 | The grossed up amount of the debt should therefore be included in the taxpayers ' total incomes for higher rate tax purposes . |
| 18 | Nor , even if full-time , did they typically do the same type or level of paid work as that performed by the men who were included in the employers ' pension schemes . |
| 19 | Similarly , if a character rides in a chariot then its points value including that of its crew is included in the Characters ' point allowance . |
| 20 | The books of such company must be available for production to the Council on demand under its powers of inspection contained in the Solicitors ' Accounts Rules 1986 . |
| 21 | I have argued that the limits of sovereignty are contained in the courts ' central commitment to representative democracy : a purported statute which attempted to subvert democracy could derive no legal authority from the doctrine . |
| 22 | Certain changes in the rules contained in the Nurses ' , Mid-wives ' and Health Visitor 's Act ( 1979 ) are needed to make updating a legal requirement , and these must be put before Parliament as with any law reform . |
| 23 | These will include warranties in respect of Newco , often a new " off the shelf " company administered by management 's lawyers , and in respect of information contained in the managers ' questionnaire concerning the managers themselves ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 24 | The investors will also request that the managers warrant information contained in the accountants ' due diligence report . |
| 25 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 26 | Technical quality and the use of the right exposure coupled with careful composition were all considered in the beginners ' and intermediate sections of the colour slides . |
| 27 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 28 | Roads , schools , refuse collection , etc. will provide inputs to the scheme but the cost of these inputs will be reported within the departments ' accounts . |
| 29 | At the time of writing , the first batch of prosecutions had collapsed in the magistrates ' court , on account of the long delay in launching the prosecutions against those involved . |
| 30 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |