Example sentences of "of the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | For the journalists , resentment at the move to Wapping and the slaughtering of 5,500 print workers ' jobs was combined with bitterness at Murdoch 's destruction of the papers ' esprit de corps and journalistic standards . |
2 | The British Ambassador in Madrid , Sir Samuel Hoare , rapidly appreciated the potential value , for pursuing the Allied objective of Spanish neutrality , of the monarchists ' increasing opposition to the Falange , Serrano Suñer and the pro-Axis policies they supported . |
3 | Franco was fully aware of the monarchists ' discontent . |
4 | Four days before the publication of the monarchists ' letter to Don Juan , the United Nations issued a condemnation of the Franco regime , following the execution in Madrid of ten Leftists accused of anti-regime guerrilla activities . |
5 | There are however two of the volumes of Daniell 's Voyage Round Great Britain , those favourites of the book-breakers ' trade . |
6 | The payroll vote ( those members of the Government who sit in the two Houses ) , back-bench ambition , and the vigilance of the Whips ' Office ensure that executive will invariably prevails . |
7 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
8 | On this occasion the House is entitled , given the nature of the automatic timetable , to stop for a moment and to put a question mark against whether the organisation of automatic timetabling should be within the gift of the Whips ' Office — the usual channels , that immaculate organisation whose skill and credibility is admired by all — or whether the House , perhaps in a mood of self-survival — |
9 | But if Dr Wark 's experiment finds it , or if any respectable magnetic spectrometer defects to the heavy-neutrino camp , then the fax machines of the physicists ' world will be clogged with ideas . |
10 | Stroud District Council says it 's aware of the shopkeepers ' problems , but it must consider the conservation aspect . |
11 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
12 | the Compensation Fund is a ‘ solid plank ’ of the professions ' reputation ; it is absurd that only solicitors offer the public unlimited indemnity ; |
13 | Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation . |
14 | Two boys and a woman , who are n't even dhāmis , leap to their feet , possessed , their bodies spinning-tops set turning by the strength of the gods ' will to dance . |
15 | The Red Chinese were persuaded to call off their bombardment of the Nationalists ' offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu . |
16 | Although Mr de Klerk is accused by the ANC of meddling with the list to get his own people in , there is no doubt that the days when the SABC was part of the Nationalists ' mighty propaganda machine are over . |
17 | Unsurprisingly , getting their own back comes top of the nationalists ' political agenda . |
18 | Rallies , demonstrations and strikes were reported on Jan. 4-6 in a number of towns and cities in support of the nationalists ' demands , and on Jan. 5 there was a general strike in Kurdzhali and in the nearby city of Khaskovo . |
19 | Massingberd-Mundy , a 62-year-old former Royal Navy submarine commander of South Ormsby Hall , Louth , was attempting to quash a decision by the Club to strike him off the list of potential chairmen of the stewards ' panel at Doncaster racecourse . |
20 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
21 | It 's just a race , after all — if you 're any good , you can wave your arms about while pulling a horse 's back teeth out and keep yourself out of the stewards ' room . |
22 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
23 | One by one the first time fans gather in front of the crash barriers until there 's a swaying mass of Finn youth vibing on the dark power of the Inspirals ' pop . |
24 | It was ‘ policy in love ’ , ‘ policy ’ being one of the Elizabethans ' two or three most derogatory words , denoting hyper-cunning and treachery . |
25 | However , in the case of the Camerons ' battling Yorkies , diagnosis is more clear-cut and the initial stages of treatment , at least , can be applied to similar cases with a good chance of producing improvements . |
26 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |
27 | Magistrates ' court R v Holyhead Justices , Ex parte Rowlands ; QBD ( Mann LJ , Waterhouse J ) ; 31 Aug 1989 An objection to witness statements tendered by the prosecution being admitted in evidence should be made according to the procedure in s 102 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 . |
28 | Lord Justice Watkins said the Divisional Court could review an order of the magistrates ' court made for the purpose of preventing an abuse of its process and had done so on a number of occasions . |
29 | The regional public relations officer for the Hampshire incorporated Law Society Richard Newson , has fears about the future of the magistrates ' courts . |
30 | There are also sittings of the Magistrates ' Courts dealing with juveniles . |