Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |
2 | In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest . |
3 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
4 | In 1957 a girls ' secondary modern was opened , sharing a large site but not much else either with the boys ' secondary modern or ( still less ) with the Grammar School . |
5 | The idea re-emerged in 1972 but was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under . |
6 | Central heating was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under . |
7 | In 1981 the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Call-slip analysis and book condition survey . |
8 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
9 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
10 | in particular the gents ' side . |
11 | They should cover in particular the pupils ' response to literature , and their competence in using information and reference materials , and should meet the general criteria described above . |
12 | In 1901 the Congregationalists ' Western and Hackney Colleges had only fourteen and twenty-one students respectively while the Baptists ' Nottingham and Bristol colleges had only eleven and twenty-one . |
13 | In 1854 a contractors ' consortium , in which the Belgian contractors Parent & Schaecken joined Thomas Brassey [ q.v. ] and Buddicom , undertook to build the Bellegarde tunnel , two-and-a-half-miles long , for the Lyon–Geneva railway , and in 1860 Buddicom and Brassey undertook the conversion of the Rouen to Dieppe railway from single to double track . |
14 | Its early locomotives were unreliable , and in 1827 the owners ' committee authorized Hackworth to build a new one to his own design . |
15 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
16 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
17 | There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study . |
18 | He was the leading European in both the Players ' Championship and at New Orleans — and even he admits he has not felt so confident since he approached the St Andrews Open of 1990 , which he won . |
19 | The customs officer checks our passports , notes the absence of a visa in both the Mexicans ' . |