Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun pl] ' association " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 , the Murdoch papers ' association with Sky TV was the subject of most controversy , but that story does not belong in this post-war period . |
| 2 | Its membership was drawn from the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Technical and Administrative Staffs Section ( AUEW TASS ) , the CSJ , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Belfast trades council , the Republican Clubs , the Ulster Liberal Party , the NDP , the RLP , the Ardoyne Tenants ' Association and the NILP . |
| 3 | As a compromise , the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association and the owners agreed to a modified piece-rate system for each coalface , but nevertheless many owners retained the butty system , and it was revived when the Dukeries field was opened . |
| 4 | Determined to maintain these isolated villages as functional units separate from contaminating ideologies such as those purveyed by the Labour party and the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association , the companies stressed the unity of the model villages . |
| 5 | The NUM 's predecessor ( like the NUM itself ) was a federation of local miners ’ unions — The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain ( MFGB ) — with which the Nottinghamshire Miners ' Association ( NMA ) had been federated since 1888 . |
| 6 | In 1905 the most powerful companies in the United Kingdom would have included J. & P. Coats , The Calico Printers ' Association , The Bleachers ' Association , Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. , Bolckow Vaughan and many others who have either closed down or been absorbed into other more powerful groups . |
| 7 | In 1924 he joined the Calico Printers ' Association as a research chemist , at a time when the search was on in many laboratories for new synthetic fibres . |
| 8 | Cooper , at the inaugural meeting of the Stratford Ratepayers ' Association argued that high rates were forcing manufacturers to leave the district , necessarily increasing levels of unemployment ( SE 25 March 22 ) . |
| 9 | Canberra , herself a veteran of the 1982 Falklands Campaign , will carry veterans and families from the key allied associations — The Royal British Legion ( including the Normandy Veterans ' Association ) , The Royal Canadian Legion , The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States . |
| 10 | Patients ' groups , including Hospital Alert and the Birmingham Committee for the Rescue of the NHS , joined with the NHS Consultants ' Association and the NHS Support Party , which intends to field GPs as parliamentary candidates in Tory marginals . |
| 11 | We still maintained the remnants of the Notts Miners ' Association . |
| 12 | Mr Hicks , who speaks for the bereaved and injured as chairman of the Hillsborough Families ' Association , was also unhappy to see the stadium host a semi-final again while the business from 1989 remained uncompleted . |
| 13 | The Hillsborough Relatives ' Association put the idea to football club bosses and a badge is planned as a permanent reminder of the April 1989 tragedy in which 95 people died . |
| 14 | Early in 1964 the Springtown Residents ' Association staged a protest march to the Guildhall , which was reported in the Derry Journal of 31 January under the headline ‘ Derry 's Little Rock Calls for Fair Play ’ . |
| 15 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |
| 16 | The NHL Players ' Association , who went on strike April 1 , have rejected what team owners called a final offer . |
| 17 | The ‘ real local enthusiasm ’ has not been generated by this organisation : why was there no mention of the petition prepared by the STPS and signed by four of the five communities surrounding Laganas Bay , the Zakynthos hoteliers ' association , and the local association of communities ? |
| 18 | Unisys customers , attending a bi-annual meeting of the Unisys Users ' Association in Amsterdam this month , were in favour of the new direction , but they feel it is time the company put its head above the parapet : ‘ Unisys has very good products , but they never tell anyone about them , ’ said one insurance company systems manager . |
| 19 | Fear of passing too many students is still preventing the Esperanto Teachers ' Association from getting Esperanto examined as a GCE O-level subject . |
| 20 | The most notable example is the London Boroughs ' Association ( LBA ) which acts both as a representative of the boroughs to outside bodies , and as a forum ‘ to advise and assist the constituent councils in the administration of their powers and duties ’ ( Rhodes 1972:446 ) . |
| 21 | Old people , many of them on low incomes and prone to suffering from hypothermia , will be forced to keep warm by staying in bed longer , warned George Newson , the chairman of the Ipswich and District branch of the Suffolk Pensioners ' Association . |
| 22 | Rebel supporters from the Barnet Supporters ' Association called for a boycott of all matches . |
| 23 | Rebel supporters from the Barnet Supporters ' Association called for a boycott of all matches . |
| 24 | Nils Busch-Petersen , general manager of the Berlin Retailers ' Association , suspects there was an element of sabotage by communist functionaries in the Handelsorganisation , the old state retailing body . |