Example sentences of "to [art] [noun pl] ' " 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 did n't tell himself that since he was no longer on spelling terms with himself he just obeyed an order and rummaged through the man 's pockets as if he were checking a suit going to the cleaners ' . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the Blackshard is destroyed , all magically-induced reductions to the adventurers ' profiles which have been sustained within the Castle are nullified . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The meeting closed with votes of thanks to the guardians ' clerk , Walter George Daniels , and to the chairman and vice-chairman . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Initially , they emphasised export strategies as an alternative to the leaders ' investment-based approach . |
| 17 | I am not kidding you : for this high-level encounter he goes to the news-agents ' next door and gets the key that hangs behind the counter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Furtherance ’ was to be tested objectively by the courts as well as subjectively by reference to the defendants ' intentions . |