Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ' union " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |
| 2 | He was chosen to design a new building for the Congregationalists ' Union Chapel in Islington . |
| 3 | The usually ultra-orthodox organ of the Free German Youth ( FDJ ) , which on Monday attacked ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ by the President of the Writers ' Union , Herrman Kant , quoted a sermon in the opposition centre , Leipzig 's church . |
| 4 | Included in the new Cabinet was Albert Nhlanhla Shabangu , president of the teachers ' union and a former critic of the government . |
| 5 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
| 6 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
| 7 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
| 8 | The President of the Students ' Union meets the Vice-Chancellor of the University on a regular basis |
| 9 | In September 1981 the magazine duly appeared , coinciding with the start of my office as the sabbatical Deputy President of the students ' union at the RCA . |
| 10 | First , there are many societies run under the aegis of the Students ' Union . |
| 11 | She was an eloquent speaker , with a beautiful voice , and drew an enthusiastic response which was to lead to the official recognition of the Mothers ' Union as a diocesan , national , and international organization , with Mary Sumner as its leader . |
| 12 | The film 's director was equally determined that this consultant who lacked the necessary card from the actors ' union should not appear on celluloid . |
| 13 | Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future . |
| 14 | He is a polo umpire , a judge of horseflesh , adviser to the Farmers ' Union , a stalwart of regimental dinners and a confidant of opposition politicians . |
| 15 | Also on Oct. 21 Mitterrand called on Raymond Lacombe , the chairman of the farmers ' union FNSEA ( Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles ) , to control his supporters , describing the attacks by " gangs " who were not representative of the main body of farmers as " unacceptable " and ordering the police to intervene to restore law and order . |
| 16 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 17 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
| 18 | On Dec. 1 , 1989 , Anatoli Ananev , editor of the Writers ' Union journal Oktyabr , was dismissed for publishing a satirical article about Pushkin ( by the exiled writer Andrei Sinyavsky ) and a novel which criticized Lenin . |
| 19 | Petitions from Manchester , Newcastle under Lyme , Burton on Trent , several towns in Leicestershire , Derby , Bristol , Liverpool , Chester and Hexham in 1777 indicate the geographical range of the hatters ' union . |
| 20 | GORDON TAYLOR , boss of the players ' union , last night led the attack on FA chief Graham Kelly for his backing of Brentford striker Gary Blissett . |
| 21 | SHEFFIELD United forward Brian Marwood is being frozen out of football — because he 's boss of the players ' union . |
| 22 | Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself . |
| 23 | Recently , medical students at Khartoum University took part in the campaign by the students ' union , and called on the Government to respect academic freedom and the autonomy of the university . |
| 24 | For it was as we have seen , in September 1833 , that the delegate conference of the Builders ' Union decided at Owen 's prompting to constitute the union as an organisation to run the building industry . |
| 25 | The players called for the intervention of the players ' union and the Football League , who last week fined Barnet £50,000 for financial irregularities at a hearing marred by Flashman 's scuffles with photographers . |
| 26 | There could be no negotiations with an unrepresentative body like the Sailors ' Union . |
| 27 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 28 | Players called for intervention by the players ' union and the Football League , who last week fined Barnet £50,000 for financial irregularities as Flashman fought with photographers . |
| 29 | The owners of the major-league clubs ( they have increased in number from 26 to 28 with the creation of the Florida Marlins and the Colorado Rockies ) will also have to conclude a new contract with the players ' union . |
| 30 | And Joseph Fernandez 's old job has other complications : being second-guessed continuously by an unelected board of education that puts its small moral agenda above all else , sabotaged by the remains of corrupt school boards , starved of federal money and unable to settle on a contract with the teachers ' union . |