Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] [noun] ' " 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 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal .
3 In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest .
4 In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 In 1981 the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Call-slip analysis and book condition survey .
9 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 ’ .
10 In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal .
11 in particular the gents ' side .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Its early locomotives were unreliable , and in 1827 the owners ' committee authorized Hackworth to build a new one to his own design .
16 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 .
17 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.
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 The customs officer checks our passports , notes the absence of a visa in both the Mexicans ' .
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