Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 2 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 3 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
| 4 | The division has poisoned the neighbouring countries ' relations — further complicated because the official language of Ghana is English , that of Togo French . |
| 5 | At the sixth attempt Mr Perks , from Llanddaniel , Anglesey , has won the Welsh Seniors ' Golf Championship which is staged annually at Aberdovey Golf Club . |
| 6 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 7 | As for change of intention , this happens when a person has done the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course but subsequently wishes to be eligible to practise here . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Scottish Ladies ' Golfing Association has named a 12-strong girls ' squad for Sunday 's training match against Helensburgh boys . |
| 9 | For example , Felicity , who had attended an independent girls ' school where all the teaching staff were women , said : |
| 10 | I have long thought the Scottish Tories ' best hope was the potential popularity of schools opting out of council control . |
| 11 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |
| 12 | Experts have exploded the old wives ' myth that , if he decided to play away , there must have been something wrong with the relationship in the first place . |
| 13 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 14 | They may not have mastered the Mad ones ' darkly comical undercurrent , but the Franks ' cheery exterior need n't preclude them from participating in some sussed ponderings . |
| 15 | Michelle 's starring role opposite Jack Nicholson , Cher and Susan Sarandon in The Witches Of Eastwick is the one that first brought her to the attention of British audiences , however This month we 'll see her as saucy , sexy restaurant manageress Jo Ann Vallenari alongside Mel Gibson in Tequila Sunrise , and in Dangerous Liaisons- But it has been her straight lead role in the comedy Married To The Mob that has ignited the American critics ' praise . |
| 16 | The Agency has produced a new leaders ' guide for people organising outings of up to five miles with family or friends . |
| 17 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 18 | But from then onwards , they were always asking me to join , but by then I had already opened a young wives ' belonging to the church . |
| 19 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 20 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 21 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 22 | That is why we have developed a special Professionals ' Mortgage Service , with many features tailored to your requirements . |
| 23 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 24 | In addition , as the therapist had suggested , she had contacted the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to find out about evening classes . |
| 25 | On Aug. 24 the Sejm elected as Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity , and on Sept. 12 it endorsed his proposals for a new coalition Council of Ministers dominated by Solidarity but including members of the ZSL ( since renamed the Polish Peasants ' Party — PSL ) , SD and PUWP . |
| 26 | KRZYSZTOF Kieslowski has become the European film-makers ' film-maker . |
| 27 | In June the FNTT , under the pressure of rising rural unemployment and employer intransigence , called an agricultural labourers ' strike , the swift collapse of which dealt a serious blow to the entire UGT . |
| 28 | He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back . |
| 29 | There were four of them ; they had shared the dead youths ' clothing between them . |
| 30 | Finally he had exhausted the new pilots ' capacity for fear . |