Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco was fully aware of the monarchists ' discontent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are however two of the volumes of Daniell 's Voyage Round Great Britain , those favourites of the book-breakers ' trade . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One Tory MP was seen coming out of the Whips ' office in tears before last night 's vote . |
| 6 | 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 — |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | the Compensation Fund is a ‘ solid plank ’ of the professions ' reputation ; it is absurd that only solicitors offer the public unlimited indemnity ; |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ' match during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Under section 1 of the Magistrates ' Court Act 1980 , a warrant for arrest may be issued by a magistrate on sworn information by the police . |
| 18 | applications to the domestic panel of the magistrates ' court for various kinds of matrimonial relief ; |
| 19 | The Criminal Division also binds the Divisional Court which hears appeals from decisions of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 20 | The primary function of the Magistrates ' Court is to try criminal cases . |
| 21 | However , a very important civil part ( especially for the caterer ) of the Magistrates ' Court 's jurisdiction is the granting of licences . |
| 22 | Certain of the magistrates were nominated to a special inner group , some of whom had to be present if a session of the magistrates ' court was to be lawful . |
| 23 | It can direct that the application be re-heard by a magistrates ' court or it can make an order itself which will then be treated as an order of the magistrates ' court for the purposes of enforcement and variation ( s94(9) ) . |
| 24 | Finally , Lowestoft members are reminded to be particularly polite to Marlene McGee , as she has been appointed to the Lowestoft bench of the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 25 | This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result . |
| 26 | I recently found myself speaking to Geoffrey Norman , the Secretary of the Magistrates ' Association , about court procedures . |
| 27 | He sporadically published a newsletter about rare firearms , collected guns himself , and was the proud owner of a decrepit fishing boat that was called Bronco-Buster in honour of the Giants ' Superbowl victory , though the Maggot himself never referred to the beaten team as the Denver Broncos , but always and ever as the Denver Fairies . |
| 28 | They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars . |
| 29 | Second , obtaining extra funds for the NHS will become increasingly difficult because of the taxpayers ' revolt against higher taxation . |
| 30 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |