Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes . |
| 32 | Where it studies young and old subjects , it commonly implies their inferior status by investigating young subjects ' development towards adult thinking and feeling , and old subjects ' loss of these faculties . |
| 33 | to have established and improved Widows ' and Orphans ' Funds in the Banks ; |
| 34 | Within all the barren beauty of Dartmoor , Bodmin Moor and contrasting tourists ' yellow sand beaches , Cornwall supports three Military Air Traffic Zones in its south west tip , and an area of intense aerial activity of 2600 square miles from the surface to 5800 feet . |
| 35 | Newspapers agreed that this was primarily due to the customary restraint of the British police and British demonstrators ' traditional aversion to violence . |
| 36 | Political polls hold key to further economic integration The shape of the EMU depends on the French elections , Danish referendum and British MPs ' vote on Maastricht . |
| 37 | These would compete directly with voluntary agencies and health and social services ' own provision and the quality and effectiveness of such services will depend on the contracting skills of purchasing agencies and on close quality-monitoring programmes . |
| 38 | Supplier groups that is to say the welfare professional organisations such as teachers ' groups and social workers ' groups , also have an interest in the expansion of government expenditure . |
| 39 | For example , the German authorities in the 1960s sought to offset upward pressure on the deutschmark ; as a result they took a relaxed view of the development of a foreign deutschmark bond market and German residents ' purchases ( which entailed a capital outflow ) . |
| 40 | A number of right hon. and hon. Members ' constituencies include major petroleum production facilities , so I am sure that we all share the concern and anxiety felt by the hon. Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) . |
| 41 | Above left : ‘ Cecil ’ Leitch , the British , French , Canadian and English Ladies ' Champion and President of Henley Ladies 1920–25 . |
| 42 | July : London summit and Foreign Ministers ' meeting [ see pp. 37599-600 ] . |
| 43 | December Defence and Foreign Ministers ' meeting [ see p. 37931 ] . |
| 44 | Defence and Foreign Ministers ' meetings |
| 45 | A Palestinian , Hafez Kassem Dalkamoni , and a Jordanian , Abdel Fatar Ghadanfar , were sentenced on June 3 by a Frankfurt court to 15 and 12 years ' imprisonment for attempted murder and possession of explosives similar to those involved in the Lockerbie air disaster in December 1988 . |
| 46 | However , he will stress that economic success can only be achieved through a commitment to free market principles and Scottish businesses ' pursuit of efficiency , diversity , enterprise , international markets and quality . |
| 47 | Changes to make civil litigation cheaper and quicker Barristers ' rights go in strategic reform . |
| 48 | While most of his contemporaries in the conservation world sit behind desks or on committees , Watson and friends race ‘ kamikaze ’ inflatable dinghies in front of Soviet and Japanese whalers ' harpoons or handcuff themselves to the seal hunters ' vessels . |
| 49 | Although the Department of Trade and Industry estimates that between 250,000 and 300,000 companies ' turnover falls below the VAT registration threshold , the exemption limit is considerably lower than that proposed by , among others , the accountancy profession in the last consultation period . |
| 50 | In their words ( p. 6 ) : ‘ the political administrative culture of British Central Government is a shadowy realm usually left to the chance observations of politicians ’ memoirs and civil servants ' valedictions , . |
| 51 | It is 0300 hours in Munster , and the Workshop Duty Officer 's phone rings at 6 Armoured Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ' base in West Germany . |
| 52 | By the late 1950s the breed was again in decline and part of the blame could be put on the 1949 Agricultural Act , which set guidelines for bull licensing and required bulls ' dams to have high recorded milk yields . |
| 53 | After 60 moves and six hours ' play , Short has rook , bishop and two pawns against Karpov 's bishop , knight and two pawns . |
| 54 | He recalled that the original American commitment was to supply the ROK army with an initial issue of equipment and six months ' supply of spare parts for a total strength of 50,000 . |
| 55 | When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards . |
| 56 | There are three categories of readiness : one month 's recovery , three months ' recovery and six months ' recovery . |
| 57 | Erm well I 'm in the scheme , the company pension scheme and I think they give er I think it 's six months ' full pay and six months ' half pay . |
| 58 | Training of staff , provision of nursery places , child care and part-time workers ' rights were the keys to equality for women , said Miss Hilary Armstrong during a visit to the town . |
| 59 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
| 60 | The latter also publishes an excellent and comprehensive Squatters ' Handbook . |