Example sentences of "' [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The businesses include two in waste disposal — essentially landfill operations — two in quarrying , two in the manufacture of scientific instruments plus a chain of builders ' merchants and a maker of specialised grouts . |
| 2 | Kitchen specialist shops , builders ' merchants and the kitchen sections of department stores will often concentrate on the more expensive ( but high quality ) rigid ranges of kitchen unit . |
| 3 | The proposed expansion of the zoning scheme , which has been on trial in three city-centre wards since 1990 , has already won the clear support of the police , residents ' groups and the hospitals , which have become increasingly concerned about late-night disturbances and violence . |
| 4 | On her lips she tasted the dust raised by the horses ' hooves and the wheels of the carriage . |
| 5 | It was supposed to be the parched Wild West , with dust spraying up from the horses ' hooves and the wheels . |
| 6 | The horses ' hooves and the wheels of the cart were muffled in straw so that it seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm . |
| 7 | With that she was gone and a minute or so later , they heard the crack of a whip and the sound of horses ' hooves as the coach pulled away . |
| 8 | He had estimated the value of the shares in H and SW on the basis of , inter alia , the companies ' accounts and the general approach of stock market investors to investment trust companies and the level of yield such investors might expect . |
| 9 | The thousands of miles of new hedgerows in the Midland countryside , when they came to full growth after a generation , added enormously to the bird population , especially with the extermination of the larger hawks and kites as pests , a process that is abundantly recorded in the church-wardens ' accounts or the field-reeves ' books of Midland villages . |
| 10 | This is convenient because it is now recognised that they are such an important aspect of the transaction ; and pension under-funding or , in recent times more likely , over-funding , can involve such large amounts of money that the arrangements will generally be negotiated separately from the rest of the agreement by specialist pension lawyers from the parties ' solicitors and the parties ' respective actuaries . |
| 11 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 12 | This entry-level operation will be responsible for putting AIX Lite ( UX No 369 ) , OS/2 , Hunter Systems ' XDOS and a Macintosh emulator on the M20 later this year , Filip said , a move still capable of producing a chill in competitors like Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 13 | Livingstone has conducted a weekly surgery and dealt with some 20,000 constituents ' queries while an MP . |
| 14 | The White Paper proposals reflected the magistrates ' views that the 1969 act was too soft on young offenders . |
| 15 | In fact , ‘ public notice ’ comprised for many years a small insertion in the classified advertisement section of two national daily papers and one local paper , jammed between husbands who were no longer responsible for their wives ' debts and the liquidation of bankrupt companies . |
| 16 | Havelock Wilson 's later reputation in the trade union movement as a " bosses " man " , an imperialist , an anti-democrat riding roughshod over his members ' wishes and a betrayer of the miners ' cause during the 1926 General Strike diverges strangely from his earlier image as a militant , a rabble-rouser , a fearless advocate of the seafarer , " stumping the country agitating , organising and inciting " , and as an advocate , even an originator , of the " new unionism " which shook the trade union establishment to its foundations in the late 1880s and early 1890s . |
| 17 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 18 | Before the 1939–45 War was over , many soldiers and marines wore the commando shoulder flashes or rangers ' badges but the green beret was not introduced until late in 1942 . |
| 19 | A wave of explosions in the Transvaal early in the month caused damage to post offices , multiracial schools , magistrates ' courts and a police training school . |
| 20 | Tribunals tend to be geographically accessible , because they sit locally , like both magistrates ' courts and the county courts . |
| 21 | The speed of decision making of some tribunals is broadly comparable with that of magistrates ' courts and the county courts . |
| 22 | There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study . |
| 23 | Examination of sentencing in either the magistrates ' courts or the Crown Court on their own may also be misleading . |
| 24 | It was put to the two top men and to the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations that the interests of France could only be adequately served by Frenchmen , and not by Americans or Englishmen . |
| 25 | It must never be forgotten that the great majority of the English people had only a passing interest in the niceties of academic theology , and that outside the bishops ' palaces and the two universities such issues remained relatively unimportant . |
| 26 | A gang of three armed raiders threatened to cut two babies ' throats if a family did n't hand over jewellery . |
| 27 | The carts to carry away the corpses went round the streets announced by the drivers ' bells and the cry , ‘ Bring out your dead ’ . |
| 28 | In principle , however , the public law nature of the SROs ' rules and the fact that they operate in an integrated way with the SIB 's rules should mean that a court is able to take the same approach to the interpretation of both the SROs ' and the SIB 's rules . |
| 29 | Wedgwood is at the forefront in new technology and colours so that all Johnson Brothers ' products and the majority of Wedgwood products sold in California meet these very strict standards . |
| 30 | Only large eyes can resolve fine detail , so the tiny facets of insects ' eyes and the small eyes of spiders have poor resolution . |