Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [art] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the stand the Directors ' Box emptied quickly but two men , sitting together , did not join in the rapid movement towards the Board Room . |
| 2 | We have seen that in the media reporting at the stage of the trial a women 's sexual conduct is often brought into question . |
| 3 | I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters ' Club give for raffle prizes . |
| 4 | Chancellor Norman Lamont was also slammed by the Labour leader for the damage the Tories ' ‘ heartless and mindless ’ policies had done . |
| 5 | On the morning of the election the parties ' colours , in the two horse race , were much in evidence . |
| 6 | The difficulty the women 's committees discovered , however , was that social programmes with no nationalist content failed to attract women , while nationalist programmes quickly triggered wasteful competitive conflicts between the four committee networks for ‘ control ’ of a locality . |
| 7 | And at the court I can remember this as a kid , at the court , of course I was n't in at at the court but I remember the story the blacklegs er picked out people and said they and they and they threw stones you see , through the window . |
| 8 | In the extract below they refer to the effect the teachers ' attitudes have on their behaviour and on the way prejudices appear to match their gradations of colour : |
| 9 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 10 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 11 | He was said to have been ‘ less than firm in his dealings with Baghdad ’ and to have generally failed to provide the leadership the Kurds ' plight required , prompting the decision to send US , British and French troops to protect them instead , despite concern , particularly in the US , not to keep troops in the region longer than necessary . |
| 12 | At the beginning the immigrants ' lack of experience and poor organization hampered mobilization , and so other workers struck first . |
| 13 | The photographs show you something of what you will see — underground roadways , coal-faces , haulage engines , and on the surface the blacksmiths ' shop , the baths , and exhibitions . |
| 14 | Well , if you looked at the lines on the grass the blokes ' leg was definately ahead of the defence , the angle made it difficult to judge if his body was . |
| 15 | The control the Scots ' pack brought to proceedings — principally from the platform of the lineout which they took by a conclusive 30-16 margin ( Doddie Weir and Damian Cronin pouching ten takes each ) , yet also in the alacrity with which they arrived at breakdown — left the Welsh utterly befuddled . |
| 16 | On the ground the eagles ' wings must be folded and the rugged shape is echoed in its posture , and in the head from front and side view |
| 17 | Then on Monday Durham County Council 's best laid plans were thrown into disarray by the news the teachers ' 7.5pc pay rise created a further deficit of almost £3m . |
| 18 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 19 | It is considered that in the past the children 's learning in crucial areas of their lives may have been either insufficient or inappropriate . |
| 20 | When we go to lunch in the little street round the corner the proprietors ' three-year-old son rushes to meet us . |
| 21 | Even when the siblings ' reactions to the aggressive child were eliminated from the analysis the siblings ' behaviour was much more aggressive in normal families . |
| 22 | Another example is the way the women 's movement has ignored older women . |
| 23 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 24 | Sole was also critical of the way the tourists ' programmed was structured so that , outside the tests , home players could turn out two or three times against the Scots . |
| 25 | Not only does one wonder what embarrassment might have occurred to warrant it but the propriety in not claiming the Ladies ' door and leading to a lavatory in the way the men 's clearly does , is a reminder of the delicacy of those times . |
| 26 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 27 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 28 | In the meantime the dinosaurs ' lineage probably reached their optimum size for metabolic efficiency . |
| 29 | When er the sales exec for marketing goes round doing the contract bits and pieces er they he or she and the surgery the doctors ' senior partners or all the doctors will agree on the number of booklets we 're going to print . |
| 30 | And by the time the workers ' movement revived in 1902 , the energy of activists was caught up both in Party organization and in the challenge posed by the burgeoning liberal and neo-populist movements . |