Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inevitable lunch followed , since this is the opportunity for the PR executives heavily to plug the project to the assembled journalists ; and to the City boys such as myself and the various stockbrokers ' analysts so that we will continue to rate the company as a ‘ buy ’ . |
| 2 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 3 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 4 | The financial crises of 1929 and 1931 and the following years ' dramatic collapse in trade and production helped to lay the foundations for the new industries and the new international trading blocs that began in the 1930s and 1940s , and for the new international financial system established in the 1940s . |
| 5 | The AI representatives met government and security officials , including ministers and the armed forces ' Chief of General Staff , and interviewed victims of torture and other abuses , as well as other witnesses and human rights activists . |
| 6 | The Israeli representative at Lausanne knew this position , for a Ramallah delegate had proposed that Israel should agree to the repatriation of 400,000 refugees ‘ who would live in peace with Israel and act as a ‘ peace bridge' ’ between Israel and the Arab states ' . |
| 7 | She told Lily everything , but no one else , except Aunt Millie who was Ma 's older sister and the two girls ' greatest ally . |
| 8 | A breakthrough occurred at the funeral of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in February 1989 when Suharto held talks with Qian , and the two countries ' respective UN missions as a consequence began normalization talks [ see pp. 36462 ; 36935 ; 37124 ; 37578 ] . |
| 9 | Shocked , everyone turned to look at him , and he briefly registered the faces and the expressions — his mother 's , the butler 's the cook 's and the two maids ' — before Jane turned and brushed past him , her face set , here eyes hard and glittering . |
| 10 | By Oct. 23 tensions were reported to have eased , following Kuwait 's mediation and the two sides ' apparent agreement on border demarcation by an international company , and the appointment of a joint technical committee . |
| 11 | The annual membership fee is £15 , ( there is a £3 enrolment fee for new members ) and the new members ' package consists of a Gilbert rugby ball , with Will Carling 's signature , a Young England Rugby Club T Shirt , a membership badge , a personalised membership card , and four editions of the Young England Rugby Club magazine ‘ Tryline ’ . |
| 12 | I hardly feel , sir , that erm erm you do n't have some influence on your salaries and the other directors ' salaries , I 've heard a lot of directors and chairmen say that they have no influence on their own salaries . |
| 13 | The debate revealed again the traditional animosity between the right-wing engineers and electricians unions and the left-wing miners ' union . |
| 14 | Moreover , they were the heirs of the regalists ' campaign against mortmain and the political economists ' attacks on the entailed mayorazgos . |
| 15 | Try Mary Love 's delicious ‘ You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet ’ , Lowell Fulsom 's ridiculous ‘ My Aching Back ’ ( poor Lowell is as good a lover as any younger man , he moans in pain ) and the Brilliant Corners ' ‘ Three Lonely Guys ’ , a record that owes a fiver to Sam Cooke 's ‘ Another Saturday Night ’ . |
| 16 | ( 9 ) If the bidder is proposing to offer consideration shares then , unless it already has sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and the appropriate directors ' authority to allot such shares , it will need to pass ordinary resolutions increasing its authorised share capital and granting the directors an authority under CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 17 | Certainly , on the union side , the central trade union body ( the LO ) attained much greater power and authority than either the TUC in Britain or the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) had tightly controlled powers over its affiliates since its inception . |
| 18 | Neither the government nor the consortium has consulted the area 's Indian peoples about the concession ; at least seven Indian communities of Caribs , Arawak , Warau and Akawaio lie within the concession and the Amerindian Peoples ' Association of Guyana has appealed for the concession to be suspended . |
| 19 | The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons ' Act ( 1970 ) and the Disabled Persons ' ( Services Advice and Representation ) Act ( 1986 ) also apply to Scotland . |
| 20 | Yi , however , said that his government would press the North Koreans for an explanation at the first session of the North-South Joint Reconciliation Committee on Nov. 5 and the ninth Premiers ' meeting ( scheduled for Dec. 21-24 — see p. 39096 ) . |
| 21 | They will also visit Brussels next week for discussions with MEPs and the European Metalworkers ' Federation . |
| 22 | It is within United 's reach to complete a most remarkable two years between May 1990 and May 1992 by landing all three domestic trophies and the European Cup-Winners ' Cup . |
| 23 | the disproportionally high failure rate of ethnic minorities students in the Bar Finals Course and the non-intending practitioners ' exams . |
| 24 | As part of the same appeal , Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Bishops ' Conferences of Europe call on every Catholic Church in Europe to set aside New Year 's Day as a ‘ special day of prayer for peace in Europe , and in particular in the Balkans ’ . |
| 25 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 26 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 27 | ONE OF the most discouraging aspects of the prolonged dispute between the Premier League and the Professional Footballers ' Association has been the Football Association 's failure to intervene , although this argument is bringing English football into disrepute . |
| 28 | The other two parties , the Patriotic Union and the Progressive Citizens ' Party , won 11 and 12 seats respectively . |
| 29 | Round table talks between the SED-PDS , the four other coalition or bloc parties ( Liberal Democratic party ( LDPD ) , Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , National Democratic Party ( NDPD ) and the Democratic Farmers ' Party ( DBP ) ) , the churches , and at least nine opposition groups , held on four occasions in December [ see p. 37108 ] , continued on Jan. 3 , 8 , 15 , 18 , 22 and 29 . |
| 30 | Once one budget round is over in March , the chief executive and the chief officers ' group will prepare papers for the policy and resources committee identifying key issues for deeper analysis , possible priorities for the next financial year , and areas for major economies . |