Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | They oversaw the reeves of the forest parishes , who branded the commoners ' cattle , the number depending on the size of the commoners ' holdings . |
| 2 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 3 | During his time at the BBC , when the Home Secretary , Leon Brittan , asked the Corporation not to show a documentary in the Real Lives series dealing with extremist politicians in Northern Ireland , it was Rees-Mogg who led the governors ' demand that the management acquiesce . |
| 4 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 5 | However , the only individual who appears to have a plan that will appeal to the developing world is Dr. Mustapha Tolba , head of the United Nations Enviroment Plan who proposed a users ' tax paid by the consumers of ozone depleting chemicals , to be collected by governments and used by developing countries both to modernise their production systems and to compensate the multi-nationals for the transfer of their most advanced energy effective technology . |
| 6 | Officers who found the youngsters ' bodies were horrified by the scene and some wept as they left the flat in Tottenham , North London . |
| 7 | Gavin Hastings , whose 22 points included two tries , and Andrew , who scored the Lions ' other points with a try and drop goal , were only the most obvious beneficiaries of this unlikely success . |
| 8 | Those who studied the parties ' platforms carefully would have had to relate the Labour Party 's generally stronger commitment to universal social security policies to the Conservatives ' specific pledge . |
| 9 | THE man who pulled the Conservatives ' favourite advertising agency , Saatchi & Saatchi , back from the brink , yesterday confirmed his departure . |
| 10 | The lady , who founded the carers ' help line , er , in the literature that you provided for the programme was suggesting that the government should recognise that there are six million unpaid carers . |
| 11 | 50,000 TONS of crude oil in the Channel , mass suicide in Guyana , Winter Of Discontent — who needed a kids ' series that blew the lid ( comparatively ) off Britain 's comprehensive school system ? |
| 12 | The middle room was occupied by Mrs Effie Storer , the Social Editor , who handled the ladies ' page , and the third room contained five small desks , a typewriter on each . |
| 13 | The problem of ‘ street arabs ’ and juvenile gangs was very much in the mind of those who formed the Boys ' Brigade , Church Lads , and the Scouts . |
| 14 | Police today appealed to anyone who saw the killers ' car , a black Vauxhall Carlton , registration XXI 7255 , which was found later at the Shore Road , Greencastle . |
| 15 | On Sunday 10 May 1719 three warships subjected Castle Eilean Donan to a fierce bombardment which left gaping holes in its walls and the small garrison , in their alien white and yellow uniforms , surrendered , in the most gratifying fashion , to a few boatloads of English sailors , who seized the rebels ' stores and blew up the old fortress . |
| 16 | The Dutch club , who won the Champions ' Cup three times in the early Seventies , were banned yesterday for at least two years as a result of crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their UEFA Cup match against Austria Vienna in Amsterdam nine days ago . |
| 17 | A WOMAN who had the slimmers ' disease anorexia nervosa died thinking she was fat . |
| 18 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 19 | Fifteen years later in 1633 , James 's son Charles , who disliked the Puritans ' insistence upon sabbatarianism , reprinted the book and ordered that it be read in parish churches throughout the country . |