Example sentences of "and [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 10,000 students were expelled ( and told that they would have to apply for readmission ) and the Students ' Representative Council was suspended . |
| 2 | The Students ' Association is comprised of two main bodies : the Edinburgh University Union which provides an extensive range of amenities and social gathering places for members ; and the Students ' Representative Council . |
| 3 | Among the other parties each gaining less than 1 per cent of the total vote were the Social Democratic Party ( 0.50 per cent ) ; Centrist Democratic Group ( 0.47 per cent ) ; National Reconstruction Party ( 0.38 per cent ) ; Bratianu Liberal Union ( 0.26 per cent ) ; Romanies ' Democratic Union ( 0.14 per cent ) and the Germans ' Democratic Forum ( 0.14 per cent ) . |
| 4 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 5 | The severe disablement allowance replaces the non-contributory invalidity pension and the housewives ' non-contributory invalidity pension ( HNCIP ) , which was payable to married women who were unable to take paid work but who did not have sufficient contributions to claim invalidity benefit itself . |
| 6 | Morley 's goal cancelled out Clive Mendonca 's 25-yarder and ended Grimsby 's run of three successive League wins and the Hammers ' recent slide , which has seen two consecutive defeats . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that since it was the business of estate agents to act for numerous principals , several of whom might be competing and whose interests would conflict , a term was to be implied in the contract with such an agent that he was entitled to act for other principals selling similar properties and to keep confidential information obtained from each principal and that the agent 's fiduciary duty was determined by the contract of agency ; that since the plaintiff knew that the defendants would be acting for other vendors of comparable properties and would receive confidential information from them , the agency contract could not have included terms requiring them to disclose that confidential information to him , or precluding them from acting for rival vendors , or from trying to earn commission on the sale of another vendor 's property ; and that , accordingly , although the purchaser 's interest in acquiring both properties was material information which could have affected negotiations for the sale price of the plaintiff 's house , the defendants were not in breach of their duty in failing to inform the plaintiff of the agreement to buy the adjacent house , which was confidential to the owner thereof , and the defendants ' financial interest in that sale did not give rise to a breach of fiduciary duty ( post , pp. 941A–B , G–H , 942A–B , G — 943B ) . |
| 8 | The boys ' mean score was 57 per cent and the girls ' 51 per cent . |
| 9 | Portsmouth had , in fact , looked second best and the Lions ' Dutch triallist Romano Sion was causing them problems . |
| 10 | When the Lions should have been exerting control from a position of 31–3 ahead with 28 minutes left , it was Southland who did the scoring and the Lions ' only score in that final period was a drop goal from Tony Clement . |
| 11 | Large sums spent on cosmetic surgery to obscure the aging process and the spenders ' own mortality is best evidence of this trend . |
| 12 | Since then , the Americans until now have at best ignored Ukrainian efforts to achieve real independence , and the Russians ' occasional attempts to thwart them . |
| 13 | It was originally set up to help Queen Alexandra 's district nurses but now also supports the Macmillan Nurses , cancer charities and the Gardeners ' Benevolent Society . |
| 14 | Listen to this stuff — boss , beautifully primitive sounds from The Maytals , Desmond Dekker , Scotty , Cliff himself and the Slickers ' ultimate wild youth anthem ‘ Johnny Too Bad ’ — and believe … |
| 15 | When the breed became man 's worst enemy ( and the tabloids ' best friend ) about three years ago , Gillian 's kennel joined forces with the Northern Rottweiler Club , but her site remains primarily a boarding kennel . |
| 16 | This reflects the high levels of nitrate in modern tapwater and the pondowners ' occasional need to perform large scale water changes with untreated water . |
| 17 | If this year 's dividend was 10p and the shareholders ' required rate of return is 10 per cent , what is the present value of the share ? |
| 18 | We have had many meetings on that , and the miners ' parliamentary group has met the chairman of British Coal several times . |
| 19 | Which brings us to the Powerhaus , and the Boys ' latest Sinatra-style comeback . |
| 20 | Which brings us to the Powerhaus , and the Boys ' latest Sinatra-style comeback . |
| 21 | What a beauteous thing is this cover of Bob Marley And The Wailers ' militant ‘ Survival ’ , which contained all the flags of the independent black African nations . |
| 22 | ii In Williamwood House ( Wylie , 1987 ; Norman , 1987 ) segregation follows a selective admission policy and takes account of prevailing circumstances and the residents ' changing needs . |
| 23 | The government thus gained a new foothold on power relatively painlessly , apart perhaps from the consultations between Denis Healey and the Liberals ' economic spokesman , John Pardoe , two combustible personalities whose stormy meetings ( or shouting matches ) provided amusement and entertainment throughout Whitehall . |
| 24 | It was returned to office in May 1929 with 287 seats to the Conservatives ' 261 and the Liberals ' 59 . |
| 25 | Labour won a massive victory being returned with 393 seats to the Conservatives ' 213 and the Liberals ' 12 . |
| 26 | In a sense they had little alternative on account of Israel 's refusal to accept the return of the refugees and the refugees ' own outright refusal of resettlement . |
| 27 | And the golfers ' wayward shots have dropped out of bounds . |
| 28 | Previously , picketing had taken the form of pushing and shoving on both sides , but the confiscation of union banners and the pickets ' public address system by the police led to the throwing of stones and bottles by strikers . |
| 29 | Their findings were repudiated by Jones and Hochner ( 1973 ) but supported by another study by Dunn and Lupfer ( 1974 ) who assessed the performance of 55 white and 122 blacks in a modified game of soccer , calling the forwards ' functions self-paced and the defenders ' reactive . |
| 30 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |