Example sentences of "to [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its pectoral fins , freed from the job of providing lift , could be used to give great refinement to the fishes ' control of movement , and their swimming skills reached near-perfection . |
| 2 | This problem causes the available land to be used unevenly , and can lead to the birds ' droppings saturating the ground surrounding the house . |
| 3 | He found that although in theory , workovers should not have caused changes to the wells ' productivity , productivity had been reduced — by up to 40 per cent in some cases . |
| 4 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 5 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , to the organisers ' relief , American Davis Cup heroes Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe flew in after a complicated , half-Concorde , half-private jet dash following their Fort Worth final triumph over Switzerland . |
| 7 | He objects to the treaties ' limits on the liability of shipowners : only if damage was committed with ‘ intent ’ or with ‘ knowledge that [ it ] would probably result ’ can they be obliged to pay more than $78m . |
| 8 | The anti-popular regimes commit innumerable injustices against women : from marginalization in the workplace and physical violence to the transnationals ' policy of using women in mass media propaganda . |
| 9 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
| 10 | He reported that he had come in by helicopter , and had claimed the hill as Balboa 's on the advice of William , and in a formal note to the Explorers ' Club of New York , of which he was a member . |
| 11 | For example , a prediction can be tied into a later encounter in the Castle , or to an encounter on the way back to the adventurers ' base . |
| 12 | If the Blackshard is destroyed , all magically-induced reductions to the adventurers ' profiles which have been sustained within the Castle are nullified . |
| 13 | The meeting closed with votes of thanks to the guardians ' clerk , Walter George Daniels , and to the chairman and vice-chairman . |
| 14 | On Monday 2 March 1964 Mr Silcock welcomed Miss Margaret Medlow and Mr Kennedy McClatchey to the Leaders ' Meeting and some further discussion took place on the possibility of moving the Communion rail forward and bringing the choir in behind the rail . |
| 15 | The level of service offered varies according to the expatriates ' needs and may consist simply of handouts — printed property sheets with information of what is available . |
| 16 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 17 | His hopes of victory rose after a health authority QC appeared to concede , in answer to the judges ' questions , that regulations requiring consultations to take place had not been properly complied with . |
| 18 | When a discretionary life sentence is passed , for an offence other than murder because of the danger to the public from the convicted person , there is no undue difficulty in ascertaining the determinate sentence which would otherwise be appropriate according to the judges ' tariff . |
| 19 | But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal . |
| 20 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 21 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 22 | By a respondent 's notice dated 1 July 1991 the first defendant cross-appealed , seeking an order that on the taking of accounts and inquiry ordered to be taken by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 , the plaintiffs were not entitled to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount unless the court had deprived the first defendant as mortgagee of relevant costs . |
| 23 | ‘ Whether … ( c ) the plaintiffs are entitled … to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts … of the nature … specified in objection number 1 … namely , that the items were unreasonable in amount … |
| 24 | The second defendant was sent a photocopy of the affidavit and he sent it to the defendants ' solicitors for advice in the context of the wrongful dismissal claim . |
| 25 | On the facts the court had no clear evidence that the copy sent to the defendants ' solicitors was made by or on behalf of the second defendant . |
| 26 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 27 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 28 | As to the defendants ' claim for commission , even if a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendants had been proved , they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly . |
| 29 | Bingham LJ said that " the plaintiffs did not do what was necessary to draw this unreasonable and extortionate clause " to the defendants ' attention . |
| 30 | ‘ Furtherance ’ was to be tested objectively by the courts as well as subjectively by reference to the defendants ' intentions . |