Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Gerard Robson , a member of the Falkland Islands ' Legislative Council , was quoted in the Financial Times of Feb. 16 as stating that Falkland Islanders would not be " overjoyed " by the Madrid agreement but recognized that matters of defence and foreign affairs were the responsibility of the UK government . |
2 | It was reported on Dec. 6 that the sale of fishing licences to foreign vessels had replaced sheep farming as the Falkland Islands ' biggest revenue earner . |
3 | Mrs Cath Thompson , who runs the Cockerton Travellers ' Rest with her husband Geoff , and Mrs Judith Robinson , of the Grey Horse , Bank Top , met Mr Bob Williams on Tuesday . |
4 | She would have something to tell the Highbury Ladies ' Circle at any rate . |
5 | Thus Emerson 's career breaks into three parts : his years as a champion and at the top of the FI drivers ' hit parade , his years as an unhappy and frustrated team-manager and his last years as an itinerant driver in search of a lost career . |
6 | Some time later , I was persuaded to try for a spot in the formidable writer 's Waterloo that is the NME Subs ' Room . |
7 | The greatest distinction achieved by The Wedding Present , though , was to win the NME readers ' poll for best band of the year , ahead of REM , The Fall and U2 . |
8 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
9 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
10 | But the CGT technicians ' section came out in support of the students for workers ' control . |
11 | It says in somewhere in the King James ' version , you 're ruined for the world . |
12 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
13 | At the ICI Polyurethanes ' plant at Geismar , USA , most of the processes now recycle part or all of the waste they produce . |
14 | A petition was presented to Henry McCubbin , the Labour Euro MP for North-east Scotland , stating the Timex workers ' case and calling for the introduction of standards of employment protection equalled to those in other European countries . |
15 | David Kossoff , who played the Baker brothers ' father , still remembers the impression that Crawford left on him . |
16 | ‘ In the six weeks of the Hornsey revolution ’ , wrote a student the following Christmas in Revelations — the Hornsey students ' paper-'I had more education than I had ever previously experienced . |
17 | The Medellin Bishops ' meeting in 1968 launched the movement known as ‘ liberation theology ’ . |
18 | But two men in the Chelsea directors ' box were soon to show that they enjoy the away game just as much . |
19 | Newly flung mashed potato clung to the walls , testament to what the Rugby Supporters ' Club thought of the ‘ mash ’ part of the lunch . |
20 | The inaugural meeting of the Trabant Owners ' Club in the UK saw no fewer than 15 of the curious cardboard-bodied cars coverage on Lancaster . |
21 | The Sheffield Ladies ' committee canvassed the East Indian alternative in the town and reported ‘ grocers have stated the demand for it has been doubled since the commencement of the canvass ’ . |
22 | With the blessing of the Norfolk Naturalists ' Trust and with special permits in our pockets ( obtainable from the Visitors ' Centre ) we had walked along their famous bank from road to sea . |
23 | We left the car and , armed with NNT permits , headed for a hide belonging to the Norfolk Naturalists ' Trust . |
24 | Roland could think of no intelligent comments about rabbits , but Maud replied with statistics about Fenland warrens and a description of an old warrener 's tower on the Norfolk Baileys ' estate . |
25 | Len thinks you might be able to sink an awful lot from the Sunderland Shipowners ' Cup , which is one of the Wearside League 's . |
26 | The Lucas workers ' Centre for Alternative Industrial and Technological Systems and the North East London Polytechnic bought a secondhand Bristol bus and converted it . |
27 | Moreover , the Stewart kings ' lamentable habit of dying young had two consequences , both of which enhanced rather than diminished the strength and prestige of Scottish kingship . |
28 | Hun Sen , the prime minister of Cambodia , has withdrawn an earlier promise to allow the Khmers Rouges ' leaders to stand in any election . |
29 | Mrs. Norton , whose husband gave the Henley Ladies ' Club the trophy still known today as the Norton Cup , was to become the first Lady Rathcreedan in 1916 . |
30 | Expressing concern about calls for Taiwan independence , he said that China had noted the Taiwan authorities ' " strong stand " against independence activists . |