Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun prp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are grateful to Hazel Fox , Harriet Dawes , Judith Manches , Judith Bridge , Vicky Andrew , Ann Upton , Elizabeth Potter , Nadja Tollemache and Tracy Minns for gifts of money , to Katrina Crossley for a valuable contact with the publisher Butterworths , and to the newly-formed Somerville Lawyers ' Group for the promise of continuing support . |
| 2 | The brainchild of the Central Scotland Patients ' Association , the group is recruiting members and hopes to be operational by the end of the year at the latest . |
| 3 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 4 | For example , in May 1974 the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council called a successful strike in protest at the Sunningdale proposals for power-sharing between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 6 | Vice-chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls agreed to demands from a majority of the informal BCCI creditors ' committee for more time to consider the deal , under which the bank 's majority shareholders in Abu Dhabi will inject nearly £1 billion . |
| 7 | Mike Loosley , general secretary of the Inner London Teachers ' Association - the area union branch — said yesterday : ‘ There 's no getting away from the fact that a child sent home on a particular day as a result of our action will be suffering . |
| 8 | The same is true of NT in the wake of the recent NT developers ' conference . |
| 9 | Silicon Graphics Inc says it 's giving a lot more headroom to software these days and is looking hard at NT in the wake of the recent NT developers ' conference ; it also wants to get into the high-end Apple Computer Inc Macintosh market and migrate those users over to ‘ real machines ’ that let them realise some of their hopes and dreams but it ca n't see itself going below the $5,000 mark . |
| 10 | United National Party ( UNP , Ranasinghe Premadasa l. , Sirisena Cooray gen. sec. ) , with a minor coalition party , the Tamil-based Ceylon Workers ' Congress ( CWC , S. Thondaman l . ) . |
| 11 | Adam Pasco , editor of the new BBC Gardeners ' World , brings you a guide to kitchen crops |
| 12 | In the next few days the family will arrange for her to have a check-up at the Royal Manchester Childrens ' Hospital , where she will become an outpatient . |
| 13 | Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors . |