Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you are here , the largest Freshers ' Week in Britain will give you the ideal introduction to all the academic and social aspects of university life . |
| 2 | The Scottish Crofters ' Union , still smarting from the £2.25 cut in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance per ewe , has recommended that more priority be given to new or recent entrants to crofting when sheep and cattle quotas are allocated from the national reserve . |
| 3 | Two handbooks on tree growing were published yesterday , one by the Forestry Authority and one by the Scottish Crofters ' Union . |
| 4 | In February 1780 merchants of Westminster , Southwark and Middlesex petitioned against Lord Beauchamp 's bill for amending the so-called Lords ' Act ( 32 Geo II of 1759 ) to extend the escape route afforded by the bankruptcy laws to non-traders . |
| 5 | Hours of hard work on a dyno have produced extra horsepower , which Ian says he ca n't wait to unleash on the British Clubmans ' Championship . |
| 6 | ‘ Their offer was a great load of my mind , ’ admitted Ian , who finished fourth in the British Clubmans ' series last year . |
| 7 | The old Lords ' Act was a long time a-dying ; and non-traders were still unable to claim the benefits of bankruptcy open to traders . |
| 8 | The Bosnian Serbs ' leader , Radovan Karadzic , had left to consult his parliament . |
| 9 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 10 | Given the Bosnian Serbs ' previous actions , their defiance may not seem surprising . |
| 11 | The Bosnian Serbs ' latest No came despite intensive diplomacy . |
| 12 | Later Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind blamed the Bosnian Serbs ' introduction of combat aircraft for the need to send Western fighter jets to the region . |
| 13 | This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament . |
| 14 | The traditional Freshers ' Ball is one of a series of such events . |
| 15 | The traditional Freshers ' Ball is one of a series of such events . |
| 16 | The case , which was heard in June 1968 , was n't helped by the fact that two months earlier Lady Althorp had been named as the ‘ other woman ’ in the Shand Kydds ' divorce while most galling of all , her own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy sided against her . |
| 17 | SOUTHERN COMFORT The Black Crowes ' Rich Robinson With a stated mission to put the Soul back into rock'n'roll , the Black Crowes visit the UK this month . |
| 18 | To date , the Black Crowes ' track record includes album sales of over five million for their ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ debut , a Grammy nomination and two MTV Awards , while their first tour saw them performing 350 dates to a total audience of over five million people . |
| 19 | AT FIRST listen there was little on The Black Crowes ' first LP ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ to separate it from a hundred other rock'n'roll records which were desperately trying to get their sound across after the Guns N'Roses media boom of the late '80s . |
| 20 | Southern rock ( remember Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers ? ) may leave a bad taste in the mouth for many rock elitists , but The Black Crowes ' brand of Southern comfort packs the kick those other bands ( although worthy ) failed to deliver . |
| 21 | ‘ You could have special pots made — delicate pots for the nobility , hand-painted with a lake scene to give them an extra value — and on the larger pots you could paint ‘ The Fish ’ — no , ‘ The Char ’ , Buttermere , the Hidden Heart of the Famous Lakelands ' . |
| 22 | After complaining they had focused too much on the warring Wales ' angle , the official was challenged : ‘ Surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 23 | He does believe they were powerful leaders and that to some extent the Bible erm shows a true like for example Freud says that there are some in the like Moses ' temper , and he loses his temper , he murders an Egyptian Freud . |
| 24 | But Berlin has outlived its shameful war And last week saw the vile Ceausescus ' fall As long as Gorbachev still gets his way , The Stalinists at last have had their day . |
| 25 | Spending on Flint includes massive environmental improvements , clearance of the former Courtaulds ' Deeside Mill , re-siting the town 's football club and car parking . |
| 26 | When the country was united under one king in about 3100 BC , beginning the First Dynasty , the name of the king was preceded by the title " Horus ' and he was thought to be " the living Horus ' and therefore a god on earth , From the Fourth Dynasty he added the title " Son of Re " to his names . |
| 27 | Donna was clearly established as the wittering Bricknells ' besotted daughter , with Raoul obviously Mavis 's favourite , and Pierre despised as a no-good compulsive gambler . |
| 28 | claims that Holiday Inns ' commitment to TQM , introduced to the group in 1989 , made it easier for the 14 Scotts ' Hospitality properties to switch their franchise to Marriott Hotels , who are long-standing TQM enthusiasts . |
| 29 | Roh also indicated that the two Koreas ' plans for reunification could be combined in a three-stage formula , starting with the South Korean plan based on a Korean community , and proceeding to a confederal republic of Koryo , as proposed by the North . |
| 30 | The Whigs dominated the two Commons ' committees established to consider the terms upon which the Crown should be offered to William and Mary : of forty-three men involved in drafting the Declaration of Rights , twenty-nine were Whig and fourteen Tory . |