Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed . |
| 2 | Given the reformers ' argument that PR would enhance the likelihood of coalition government , consent could be undermined if government was to result from post-election bargaining between parties ; by a small center party holding the balance of power and hence wielding undue influence over government policy ; and by the alienation of voters who support a party excluded on a long-term basis from becoming a partner in coalition . |
| 3 | Actual performance needed , however , to be evaluated against potential performance given the units ' position in the market at the beginning of the five-year period . |
| 4 | Dealers regarded the punters ' concern to make a profit on , say , £500 worth of Rolls Royce shares with a contempt peculiar to the City whizz-kids they aspired to become . |
| 5 | What Peter did not realise was that he had aroused the directors ' suspicion . |
| 6 | More grist has filled the pessimists ' mill in the years since the Joint Declaration , as Peking has grown more assertive and London more timid . |
| 7 | On the positive side , Chris Algar , who described her busy life as a systems engineer in last September 's Medau News has joined the Teachers ' Training Course and at the Step-up and Dance Studio in Leeds Jean Gill made a great impression with an introductory Medau session that she had been invited to reach . |
| 8 | The pursuers , having had no response to their requests for payment , treated the defenders ' failure in payment as discharging the contract and withdrew from the site , leaving the installation in an uncompleted state . |
| 9 | Mansell spent some time on stage with his former boss Frank Williams , whose Canon-Williams team had won the Constructors ' Championship . |
| 10 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 11 | And er you 've won the Kids ' County for today , you 've got loads of stuff , so er |
| 12 | Favourite at 8–1 was Spartan Missile , bred , owned , trained and ridden by 54-year-old John Thorne : this brilliant hunter-chaser had twice won the Foxhunters ' Chase on the course and was strongly supported to thwart the Champion dream . |
| 13 | The defeat has deepened the Quakers ' relegation worries and the visit of promotion hopefuls Huddersfield on Saturday when Darlington will be trying to avoid a third successive reversal promises to provide a searching test . |
| 14 | Mrs Quinton closed her eyes for a moment as if recalling her cousin relating this girl 's history , which had not included the scissors ' business with Sister Mary as being the reason for her leaving because that might have put any caring mother off from engaging such a virago . |
| 15 | Equally , the management of British Coal once again have not honoured their undertakings , they promised me that once they had considered the Consultants ' Report into the reorganization , they would consult with us . |
| 16 | In the later case a three-member panel had considered the applicants ' appeal and had adjourned to hear the remaining appeals . |
| 17 | McColl is the first Scot to have won a boys ' winter series title . |
| 18 | MERSEYSIDE MP Eddie O'Hara has won a Commons ' victory to change the wording of benefit claim forms for the terminally ill . |
| 19 | By 1701 Myddlewood had attracted a squatters ' colony of fourteen cottages that formed a distinct , new settlement between Myddle village and the hamlet of Marton . |
| 20 | Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks . |
| 21 | They had attended the agents ' dinner at Blackpool , and Sarah , sitting way below the salt , had noticed with alarm that Heath was silent . |
| 22 | If the Viceroy , the Grand Duke Konstantin , had been firm , he could probably have prevented the Poles ' discontent from escalating . |
| 23 | ‘ Fake ’ Intermediates were students who had done the Beginners ' course but learned nothing from it . |
| 24 | My point here is that a further rapid increase in unemployment might have weakened the unions ' power of resistance ( one can draw a comparison with the Thatcher government ) , but playing according to rules which prohibited blatant mass unemployment tied the government 's hands . |
| 25 | Last year a court blocked government plans to build a road tunnel through the Aspe valley , which would have threatened the bears ' habitat [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 26 | Anthony Seldon has written the overlords ' epitaph : ‘ Thus the Conservatives reverted to the former system of co-ordination of policy in Cabinet Committees and in the Cabinet … . |
| 27 | For the Scots would hardly have accepted the reformers ' belief in God 's especial guidance with such assurance had they not been long accustomed to think of themselves with a high level of worldly confidence . |
| 28 | those who have accepted the teachers ' view of them that they are thick and who see no point in pursuing any further academic work because of their acknowledged inability , and |
| 29 | The MNR responded with a statement issued in Nairobi saying that it had accepted the mediators ' invitation to direct talks but that Chissano was delaying " to extend his time in power " . |
| 30 | At an earlier stage the council had accepted the architects ' proposal to replace the chainlink fencing around the adjacent churchyard with cast-iron railings of period appearance . |