Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 2 | For London readers , Shoreditch offers the following gatecrashers ' guide to election night ( assuming that some sort of celebration is in order ) . |
| 3 | It incorporates the latest Solicitors ' Accounts and Accountants ' Report rules ( p 97 ) . |
| 4 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 5 | Hence the social opportunity cost of using resources in films , the value of the marginal consumption benefits of meals forgone , exceeds the private producers ' opportunity cost of using these resources in films . |
| 6 | The Princess Royal , Patron , College of Occupational Therapists , opens the College 's new headquarters , Information & Study Centre at 6-8 Marshalsea Road , London SE1 ; opens the Young Designers ' Centre , The Design Council , 28 Haymarket , London SW1 ; visits the Headquarters of The Special Escort Group at their Barnes Headquarters , London SW13 ; and , this evening , attends a Banquet at the Guildhall given by the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of the knitting frame by William Lee . |
| 7 | If the Bank restricts its Treasury Bill issue and sells longer-dated securities , this reduces the commercial banks ' cash reserves , and thus restricts their capability of expanding bank deposits . |
| 8 | Whatever the merits of that view , its popularity lessens the financial markets ' confidence in the system ; and without that confidence the system is weakened . |
| 9 | Newcastle , the hot-bed for local fell running , supplies Edinburgh-based Richard Rodgers who has performed many times for Northern Ireland and Willowfield 's George Morris — making his debut at this level — completes the senior mens ' team . |
| 10 | Newcastle , the hot-bed for local fell running , supplies Edinburgh-based Richard Rodgers who has performed many times for Northern Ireland and Willowfield 's George Morris — making his debut at this level — completes the senior mens ' team . |
| 11 | Yet , and here Burgess partly reflects the early sociologists ' emphasis on the new forms of collective organisation , this area of deterioration ‘ is also one of regeneration , as witness the mission , the settlement , the artists ’ colony , radical centers all obsessed with the vision of a new and better world' . |
| 12 | The fact that American long-term government bond yields remain higher than those in Germany , even though its short-term rates are less than half Germany 's , reflects the financial markets ' fears that inflation is about to flare , along with concerns about the fate of the administration 's budget-reducing package . |
| 13 | The report — which examines the civil servants ' handling of the sale — is understood to question why British Aerospace was the only main bidder where detailed and full inquiries were made . |
| 14 | Ashton has also found a delicious use for the ordinary class-room petits battements sur le cou depied when Cinderella parodies the Ugly Sisters ' dancing lesson . |