Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combined effect of these problems is currently felt in the Spanish railways ' extremely low commercial speeds which greatly hamper competition with road and air transport . |
| 2 | Rachel Sherrington , swimming in the 1979 girls ' backstroke , also won the silver and followed up with bronze in the freestyle . |
| 3 | Since then the proposal has featured in the Liberal Democrats ' health policy document Restoring the Nation 's Health . |
| 4 | Does the Prime Minister realise that many people in Great Britain greatly welcome the fact that the first Heads of Government meeting in the United Nations ' history was chaired by a British Prime Minister ? |
| 5 | What disclosure should be made in the respective companies ' financial statements ? |
| 6 | The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 7 | These differences may be reflected in the two nations ' space programmes — the French march onwards , their plans to the fore , while the British cautiously conducted a step-by-step withdrawal . |
| 8 | Any rise in Bank Rate would induce the discount houses to raise their lending rates and this in turn would be reflected in the clearing banks ' interest rates . |
| 9 | And of the expected 6,000 visitors , 1,200 can be accommodated in the nearby students ' dormitory area . |
| 10 | SA Students and Orange Free State fly-half Jannie De Beer played in the Junior Springboks ' 79–3 win against a full-strength Namibia national side in Windhoek last month , while scrum-half Hentie Martons represented SA schools two years ago . |
| 11 | A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches . |
| 12 | That message was later underlined in the 1984–5 miners ' strike . |
| 13 | The next reference in 1955 is to some bonds having been transferred and this is found in the first Bondholders ' Minutes written by their new Secretary , J. H. ( Harry ) Tomalin . |
| 14 | Doubt about its legality was finally resolved by section 310 of the Companies 1989 Act which said companies may protect their directors and officers from the costs of liability for negligence , default , breach of duty or trust so long as this is declared in the annual directors ' report . |
| 15 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 16 | If smears from the far right were predictable , the campaign trail theme , echoed in the Liberal Democrats ' campaign against Ashok Kumar in Langbaurgh , that Taylor was not ‘ a local man ’ , was not . |
| 17 | This same interpretation appeared in the Irish bishops ' next statement in mid-June . |
| 18 | There were 72 million working days lost in the 1980s , nearly one third of which — 22.3 million — were lost in the 1984 miners ' strike alone . |
| 19 | Support for a ratified Maastricht Treaty , which included the social dimension , had equally been stated in the Liberal Democrats ' general election manifesto . |
| 20 | She had thought she 'd give Maura 's long blonde hair a few good tugs , a scratch or two on her face , and then home to tea , basking in the other girls ' admiration . |