Example sentences of "of [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the paper was selected by the BAIE to take part in a Federation of European Industrial Editors ' association competition . |
| 2 | In the fading days of the postwar consensus , under the Labour patriarchy of that civil servants ' union boss Jim Callaghan , Apocalypse seemed more viable than pleasure . |
| 3 | In the winter of 1975 the council evicted us from our squat and those of us who formed the nucleus of that original women 's house were dispersed around the country . |
| 4 | Such confidence is further strengthened when there is positive and practical help available to the teacher in the form of clear sequenced teachers ' notes with practical advice . |
| 5 | The phone of another leading miners ' union official was also allegedly tapped in the late 1970s , as was the phone of a shop steward at the Ford plant at Dagenham . |
| 6 | My work was then only possible by a fusion of different feminist women 's critical work , a radically different approach to that of the male conception of individual genius . |
| 7 | Organised by Brian and Anna Houghton , the London ceramics dealers who have launched two highly regarded specialist fairs in London during the past few years , it offered New Yorkers two innovations ; an expert vetting committee , which checked that every item was genuinely what it was said to be — there had never been vetting in America before — and a showcase in their own city of top European dealers ' wares . |
| 8 | The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " . |
| 9 | A party of Northern region members got a first-hand view of British Nuclear Fuels ' controversial thermal oxide reprocessing plant when they visited the company 's Sellafield site . |
| 10 | The nuclear power plant at Dounreay , Scotland , is breaking regulations on the storage and disposal of radioactive waste , according to a former nuclear waste manager and head of British Nuclear Fuels ' environment protection group , Bob Burton . |
| 11 | The British government has given the clearest signals yet that it intends to authorise the start-up of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) at Sellafield . |
| 12 | Greenpeace has won permission to mount a High Court challenge to the opening of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL 's ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 13 | Greenpeace 's High Court legal challenge to the commissioning of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) at Sellafield has failed . |
| 14 | The bizarre story of British academic institutions ' flattery of the Ceauşescus could be repeated many times over in other impeccably democratic countries . |
| 15 | As British companies have become more international in their operations and UK profits have disappeared in the recession , the problem has grown dramatically worse ; about 40% of British listed companies ' profits now come from overseas . |
| 16 | With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit . |
| 17 | Fed Cup fever will hit Nottingham during the week of 21st July , when HRH , The Princess of Wales attends the Opening Ceremony for the 28th staging of this great women 's event . |
| 18 | The young people who have caught the madness of war are , in fact , prisoners of this old men 's mentality which has charmed them . |
| 19 | Among the local peculiarities which needed to be swept away , the most important was the array of outlandish local saints ' days and festivals in the Canterbury calendar . |
| 20 | A survey of Central American women 's development programmes carried out by the Mexican government 's " Women 's Documentation Centre " in April 1982 produced from the Ministry of Education the following list of publications on women 's issues available in El Salvador : Vision Magazine ; Today At Home ; TV Guide ; Vanity ; Cosmopolitan ; Good Housekeeping . |
| 21 | Henry knew all the houses — the double-fronted mansion with the Mercedes in the driveway , the row of early Victorian workmen 's cottages , fastidiously restored , the occasional bungalow or mock Gothic affair with turrets — he knew what each one was worth , and he followed their fortunes , decay , repair , sale , in the way a countryman might watch the seasons . |
| 22 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 23 | Near a video of archival footage showing the 1933 book burnings , are display cases containing such vile relics as an official register of blacklisted titles , an assortment of illustrated anti-semitic children 's books , and a copy of Mein Kampf in the deluxe wedding edition distributed to all German couples . |
| 24 | At first sight ‘ geography ’ is most important in the location-factor approach , since both its question and its answer are explicitly geographical : ‘ why this particular geographical shift ? ’ … ’ because of these geographical factors ' . |
| 25 | The share of these joint ventures ' results and net assets attributable to LASMO are fully reflected in the Group consolidated accounts . |
| 26 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 27 | Our one day visit soon stretched to two , and when we left at the end of three superb days ' climbing there were still routes we wanted to do . |
| 28 | Alternatively , ‘ BBC 3 ’ , a co-operative of three senior children 's librarians ( see page 67 ) , has no formal structure . |
| 29 | Indeed , City analysts reckon that in the first six months of 1992 listed companies ' dividends only increased by 2% as companies tried to improve their balance sheets and build up dividend cover . |
| 30 | In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) . |