Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the burden was thereby eventually eliminated as the prices of advanced countries ' exports to the primary producers rose — reducing the deterioration in the terms of trade . |
| 2 | Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera . |
| 3 | Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera . |
| 4 | The government on May 31 introduced legislation to determine the value of political parties ' assets and for the expropriation of the assets of those parties existing on Oct. 7 , 1989 . |
| 5 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 6 | It has the aim of enabling participants to understand the reality of each others ' lives , and thereby contribute to changes in both societies . |
| 7 | Encouraged by their interpretations of each others ' dreams they set off against Humbaba to cut down his cedar forests . |
| 8 | There is the potential for several wards to share ideas and to develop broader understanding of each others ' specialisms and problems while building valuable resources in the form of teaching aids and expertise . |
| 9 | A by-product of the computer revolution has been an increased understanding by scientists and humanists of each others ' methods and preoccupations . |
| 10 | According to Stephen Howard , the company 's founder and chief executive , Make Systems is the only supplier of network planning software to use device-specific libraries to model the performance of specific vendors ' routers and time division multiplexers . |
| 11 | Editor , — I have no solution to the problem of junior doctors ' hours , but Jeremy Wight 's allegation that the Junior Doctors Committee was duped by ‘ the hierarchy of the BMA ’ requires comment . |
| 12 | For example , Guy 's is seeking to tackle the problem of junior doctors ' hours . |
| 13 | an analysis of European politicians ' careers ; |
| 14 | FRED 3 proposes that an analysis of total shareholders ' funds between amounts attributable to equity and non-equity interest be disclosed on the face of the balance sheet . |
| 15 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 16 | Although belated , the gesture will win Mr Kaifu kudos in Washington , and guarantee a warm welcome for him at the London summit of rich countries ' leaders in July . |
| 17 | One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach . |
| 18 | For example , the size of agricultural labourers ' families , one of the poorest paid occupational groups , remained high . |
| 19 | During the Depression years mothers often called at the better-off houses in the neighbourhood to try and find places for their daughters and one woman recalled employing a succession of unemployed miners ' daughters to whom she paid 5/ a week . |
| 20 | In a list of favourite boys ' books compiled by Edward Salmon in 1888 , Kingston came second to Dickens , and Salmon observed , ‘ Mr Kingston is Captain Marryat transformed from a novelist into a juvenile romanticist ’ . |
| 21 | It cites 33 examples of un-named organisations ' policies by industry group and size of company . |
| 22 | These leys were the remnants of Neolithic traders ' routes , Watkins surmised , which had ranged across the countryside and were marked with standing stones and mounds of earth or cairns . |
| 23 | They had talked of spontaneous workers ' movements , of activity from below , and suddenly there it was . |
| 24 | Yet earlier in the article he mentions that car workers ' wages have risen from 40 per cent to 69 per cent of German workers ' wages . |
| 25 | Dendrov branched every which way , a forest of tangled stags ' horns . |
| 26 | By this time his fantasies took on the air of medieval barons ' wars . |
| 27 | The ‘ Grey ’ movement , in the shape of organised pensioners ' groups , is becoming stronger . |
| 28 | He had a marvellous collection of carved whales ' teeth and Ian and I believed every word he said . |
| 29 | SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods . |
| 30 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |