Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the Halls ' major income in 1992 has come not from audiences but from recording companies . |
| 2 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 3 | Before November 9 , the visitor to the derelict Potsdamer Platz , where no trams run on the ancient tramlines which now lead nowhere , could mount the viewing platform by the tourist kiosks on the western side and peer across the Grepo border guards ' free fire zone at the drab buildings a quarter of a mile away in the east . |
| 4 | Second , the study will collect detailed information about informants ' economic life experiences and their own perceptions of those experiences — in paid work and out of it ; with regard to housing and use of public and private welfare provision ; in respect of household finance and domestic ‘ divisions of labour ’ . |
| 5 | That the standard of the Fiji tournament — which according to such a seasoned sevens campaigner as the Scots ' assistant coach , John Jeffrey , reached unprecedented highs — was beyond question . |
| 6 | It was to last throughout the 1540s , and then go into abeyance , lying dormant — despite Mary Queen of Scots ' burning awareness of her position as Elizabeth 's heir presumptive — until it had to be faced again , when James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603 . |
| 7 | The Scots ' encircling assault , however spectacular , was not likely to break that tight formation and overwhelm the enemy . |
| 8 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 9 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 10 | Figure 1 shows the Units ' administrative structure . |
| 11 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 12 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 13 | After a year or two down in Kent , Northern Arts ' erstwhile Literature Officer , Jenny Attala , comes back to the region as Principal Officer in the Published and Broadcast Arts Department . |
| 14 | The current commissioner , Luis Cancel , disputes that version of events , and pledges to place the arts ' economic role at the center of an effort to secure more funding or at least resist further budget cuts . |
| 15 | More important , in practice , but still faulty were the ratios applied by credit-rating firms in deciding how to grade insurers ' claims-paying ability . |
| 16 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 17 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 18 | SADDAM Hussein last night threatened revenge after American pilots shot down an Iraqi jet inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone . |
| 19 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 20 | And with Mobuto due to address the United Nations ' General Assembly , the locale could n't have been better . |
| 21 | Romania had not in fact recorded a vote on the crucial resolution on 14 January in the United Nations ' General Assembly on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan . |
| 22 | I am sure that the House will agree that the United Nations ' enhanced role in the issues that the Prime Minister has mentioned will be most welcome . |
| 23 | But Bosnian Serbs refused to let the convoy pass , saying they had had insufficient advance notice , said Judith Kumin of the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgrade . |
| 24 | The war was frozen by the ceasefire , which the United Nations ' special envoy Cyrus Vance negotiated in early January , and by the prospect of a UN peacekeeping force being deployed . |
| 25 | Finally , if the Prime Minister says , as he rightly does , that one of the centrepieces of reshaping the United Nations so that it can cope with the new challenges to world peace is to strengthen the United Nations ' peacekeeping capacity , why is it that the Government are , I am told , $8 million in arrears with their dues towards United Nations ' peacekeeping ? |
| 26 | It criticised the OECD countries for failing to meet the United Nations ' foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent of their GNPs . |
| 27 | It may not be possible to supply the winners ' specified equipment in every case but near alternatives of similar value may be substituted . |
| 28 | There had been other collapses , there were little ones all the time , and big ones too like the ‘ Tim and Teddy ’ shops ' rapid demise ( which had been simply because of their slovenly accounting ) , but Rose had a special place . |
| 29 | Mr Cash is a leading Euro-sceptic , who was elected chairman of the Tory backbenchers ' European committee in a surprise coup last December . |
| 30 | This gradual increase in kindness and humanity towards horses has paralleled peoples ' increasing consideration of other people and the education and treatment of children . |