Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | It all goes on the conservationists ' bill . |
| 32 | I am not kidding you : for this high-level encounter he goes to the news-agents ' next door and gets the key that hangs behind the counter . |
| 33 | The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village . |
| 34 | The reservation houses , half-hidden in cactus and mesquite , are solidly built , the jeeps new ; an enormous four-lane highway sweeps past the gamblers ' den . |
| 35 | Everything here speaks of the owners ' attentive care and good taste . |
| 36 | In addition to the identification of specific fiscal problems faced by each of the three countries , the research will be able to highlight the similarities and contrasts in the governments ' approaches to taxation problems . |
| 37 | He objects to the treaties ' limits on the liability of shipowners : only if damage was committed with ‘ intent ’ or with ‘ knowledge that [ it ] would probably result ’ can they be obliged to pay more than $78m . |
| 38 | She strongly objects to the chimps ' tea party in Brooke Bond tea ads : ‘ I still want to know how the chimps are made to move their mouths like that . |
| 39 | Note : We have deliberately avoided the idea that owners ' equity relates to the owners ' investment in the business as with the historic cost model this is fraught with obvious difficulties . |
| 40 | Currently , a Home Office grant pays for the schemes ' managers and co-ordinators . |
| 41 | Lunch with Paloma Picasso , friendships with the supermodels , front-row seats at the shows and invites to the designers ' private dinners afterwards , fashion advice from her friend at Vogue . |
| 42 | The charter focuses on the SSDs ' key tasks : assessment ; designing care packages ; developing contracting and purchasing ; quality assurance ; and complaints and inspection . |
| 43 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 44 | The ‘ old , old story ’ becomes under the critics ' needle the ever-unravelling story , and the drama is lost . |
| 45 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 46 | In Williams v Singer ( 1920 ) 7 TC 387 , the courts took a pragmatic approach to a particular trust and held that if income arises to trustees of a life interest trust but it is paid direct to the beneficiary ( so it never actually comes into the trustees ' hands ) then the trustees are not liable to tax on the money . |
| 47 | Ominously , the highest estimate comes from the bankers ' own technical adviser , who puts it at £8.1bn . |
| 48 | Its name comes from the cormorants ' nests which in the past were ranged in rows along shelves in the wet black rock , like jars in a chemist 's shop . |
| 49 | The balance comes from the Inns ' contributions . |
| 50 | All right , they say , a wife is a wife after all , but when it comes to a parents ' decision … |
| 51 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |
| 52 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 53 | He was replaced in the closing minutes in Dublin by Rob Wainwright , who returns to the replacements ' bench . |
| 54 | There 's a saying which is n't entirely true that the politics stops at the waters ' edge . |