Example sentences of "the [noun pl] ' [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the Bosigran guide has provoked a complaint to the Climbers ' Club from local activist Rowland Edwards that a comment in the historical section , which claims he is unwilling to release information on his new routes , has misrepresented his position . |
| 2 | Seconds later Blues ' midfielder Lee Doherty headed the ball just over the Reds ' crossbar from Stephen Beatty 's left wing cross . |
| 3 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |
| 4 | Izzie watched the ponies ' approach from the cart top , through narrowed , scowling eyes . |
| 5 | The 15-12 quarter-final passage was attributed to a Jim Renwick drop goal after tries by Douglas Wyllie and Jim Hay — the latter 's converted by Simon Scott — had ensured the Survivors ' fightback from 0-12 adrift . |
| 6 | She included difficult filler items without pronouns to divert the subjects ' attention from the anaphoric expressions . |
| 7 | That the number of railway passengers in Britain almost doubled between 1848 and 1854 — from c. 58 to c. 108 million — while the companies ' income from freight traffic multiplied almost two-and-a-half times , is more significant than the precise percentage of industrial goods or business travel concealed within these figures . |
| 8 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 9 | As soon as he learned of the rebels ' withdrawal from Derby , he sent orders to Field Marshal Wade to intercept them from the west while his own army set off in pursuit from the south . |
| 10 | England boss Graham Taylor yesterday excluded the Rangers ' midfielder from his squad for the vital World Cup qualifying match against Turkey in Izmir on 31 March . |
| 11 | She heard an echo of the pirates ' chorus from The Sea Hawk in the rain . |
| 12 | The Institute could not possibly prejudge matters by proclaiming the auditors ' innocence from the outset . |
| 13 | That quality , at least initially when combined with other innovation being imposed on the school system , is likely to lead to a distraction of the teachers ' time from the sort of effortless teaching strategies , hard won over decades , as they are drawn into the steep learning curve of the unfamiliar new language of the National Curriculum and its assessment . |
| 14 | He had been a member of the Leaders ' Meeting from its inception . |
| 15 | Secondly , the events which followed the girls ' departure from institutional care were important . |
| 16 | " Father , have you come to complain about the girls ' absence from school ? " |
| 17 | Henley took quite an interest in her and she was the Ladies ' President from 1920–1925 . |
| 18 | Lisburn 's Anne Terek won the ladies ' section from Avril Magee ( Annadale Striders ) with new mum Ursula McGloin making a return to racing and finishing an excellent third . |
| 19 | To do her best and help other people , to think of others before herself , to do a good turn every day , to lend a hand — she was only partly keeping the Promise , the Law and the Motto by setting off to save the Brownies ' van from what could be a nasty mishap . |
| 20 | He under-estimated his side 's dominance by two years , as Surrey held the champions ' pennant from 1952–58 . |
| 21 | Resisting the sirens ' song from the Tory wets , she said that like Ulysses , another resister , she would come safely home to harbour . |
| 22 | If the Viceroy , the Grand Duke Konstantin , had been firm , he could probably have prevented the Poles ' discontent from escalating . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the plaintiffs ' appeal from Wright J. 's order , holding that it was not open to the court to devise protection in substitution for the defendants ' privilege against self-incrimination , and that the plaintiffs ' claim was neither proprietary nor within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 |
| 24 | Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair . |
| 25 | He trained as an architect and town planner before helping to found the Panhellenic Socialist Resistance , the forerunner of PASOK , while in exile from the Colonels ' dictatorship from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 26 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , despite the weaker Merseyside economy , MDC has undoubtedly succeeded in transforming the docklands ' image from that of a decaying twilight zone into a popular and fashionable urban environment . |
| 28 | Dame Rachel Waterhouse , who graduated with a PhD from Birmingham in 1950 , was Chairman of the Council of the Consumers ' Association from 1982 to 1990 . |
| 29 | Although Barber found himself in the political wilderness with the Tories ' fall from power after the death of Queen Anne in 1715 , he remained loyal to his friends and true to his Tory principles . |
| 30 | We shall use that presidency to end the Tories ' opt-out from the Social Chapter , so that the British people can benefit from European safeguards . |