Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed . |
| 2 | The club is large enough to accommodate the Inspirals ' fans , but not a lot more . |
| 3 | The combination was built to accommodate the brothers ' collection of Lombardy objets d'art , and these — ivories , terracotta , furniture , sculptures , bronzes and ceramics — will form a new museum when the necessary building work is completed . |
| 4 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 5 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 6 | They oversaw the reeves of the forest parishes , who branded the commoners ' cattle , the number depending on the size of the commoners ' holdings . |
| 7 | However , Greeley and Rossi 's work also has been used to uphold the defenders ' argument that , though Roman catholic schools varied in their efficiency , they were certainly better than any possible alternative in terms of producing good Roman catholics . |
| 8 | The emphasis in agreements was therefore placed upon procedural , rather than substantive , rules designed to uphold the employers ' right to manage in the face of attempted unilateral imposition of working rules by craft unions . |
| 9 | The mother through her counsel has sought to support the decision of the justices except in so far as it is conceded that the prohibited steps order in relation to the two adults was wrong , and likewise although in the court below the guardian ad litem had reluctantly supported the interim care order , the guardian ad litem today seeks to uphold the justices ' decision . |
| 10 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 11 | Allowing the taxpayers ' appeal , Lord Justice Browne-Wilkinson held that in construing a piece of legislation , reference to Parliamentary materials , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , is permissible where three criteria are met : the legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; the material relied on consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill , together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; the statements relied on are clear . |
| 12 | The Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay , concurred with allowing the taxpayers ' appeal on the grounds of statutory construction alone . |
| 13 | To reform an unconscionable decision of the courts which is unworkable in practice ; Parliament may pass an Act which has the effect of overruling the courts ' decision . |
| 14 | However , it was reported the following day that talks had broken down and the employers had stopped the strikers ' wages . |
| 15 | The expense the school incurred in educating and maintaining the taxpayers ' sons did not add to the school 's general costs but was equal to the additional cost involved in so doing — such as meals and laundry . |
| 16 | It was only the threat of banishment from the game that persuaded him to wear the sponsors ' bibs at the tournaments . |
| 17 | Tone greatly aids the researchers ' understanding of Creole grammar , which appears less simple than was thought . |
| 18 | Haider had been dismissed as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 for praising the Nazis ' employment policies [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 19 | Erm but if somebody has had a gap for whatever reason , it is often the only method of actually covering it if you want to do something that involves the teachers ' superannuation scheme . |
| 20 | Or will they attempt to funnel more business through their factoring subsidiaries on the grounds that they are better placed than the local branch managers to monitor the banks ' exposure to risk ? |
| 21 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |
| 22 | The prophecy that the chief Ringwraith will not fall ‘ by the hand of man ’ , and his check when he realises Dernhelm is a woman , similarly parallels the Witches ' assurance to Macbeth and his disconcertment when told ‘ Macduff was from his mother 's womb/Untimely ripped . ’ |
| 23 | Mhoira Robertson was always ambitious and passed the sergeants ' examination at 24 . |
| 24 | Bomberg shared the Vorticists ' involvement with the machine-age dynamism of modern urban life . |
| 25 | Dobbie shared the islanders ' hardships and broadcast to and visited the people constantly . |
| 26 | Bloodied and shattered by the war , for 20 years the public shared the architects ' vision of a brave new world of pristine concrete , of high airy towers set in acres of green park-land . |
| 27 | At the Earth Summit in Rio Britain along with the other major powers agreed to limit its greenhouse gas emissions and the Environment Secretary believes the only way to cut consumption is to hit the consumers ' pocket . |
| 28 | Under Mr Ciampi , the Bank of Italy failed to curb the politicians ' profligacy , but it never gave up trying . |
| 29 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 30 | In the 1950s Bert Hardy brilliantly captured the essence of the Pony Trot for Picture Post but the re-creation of the routine shown on television at that time seemed a pale version of the original to the women of the twenties ; they recall the music being so much more inventive with a man simulating the horses ' hooves with coconut shells , hunting horns and whiplashes all adding to the atmosphere . |