Example sentences of "the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | The court investigated the technology in some detail , but stressed that it was not evaluating the experts ' decision , just construing the words of the agreement . |
| 32 | The RAF Aerobatic Team , the Red Arrows always hold the crowds ' attention wherever they fly , Classic Manoeuvres ( Columbia Tristar video , 40 mins , colour , £10.99 ) follows the team on their tour of North America during 1983 . |
| 33 | The headquarters ' engineers want to develop an electric version of the HST , which will involve considerable redesign and could take several years to complete . |
| 34 | Visitors were taken round the headquarters ' accommodation , including the editorial offices of the Society 's journal , Radio Communication , which nowadays is produced by the latest ‘ new technology ’ processes . |
| 35 | Any extra equipment or special materials he required could be obtained through the agency of the headquarters ' staff . |
| 36 | The headquarters ' 38-set ( see Appendix 5 ) could not contact Ryder on the MGB and Newman did not at first realise how few men were ashore . |
| 37 | Like the Carters ' , the Parsons ' marriage was in turn-around , only there it was Dennis who was the sleeping partner . |
| 38 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
| 39 | Then the opportunity of having an unexpected extra curate was presented to them by George Carey , then Bishop of Bath and Wells , in late July and a new leader moved with his family into the Carters ' house at the end of September . |
| 40 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 41 | There was here a latent tension , perhaps most fully apparent in the contrast between socialist demands for State corporations and the Keynesians ' call for an anti-trust policy to oppose monopoly power . |
| 42 | There were elements in its thinking , however , which were akin to the Keynesians ' views . |
| 43 | Over succeeding years , the seafarers ' unions of several countries managed to secure improved conditions for work in the area . |
| 44 | Leapor focuses her description on the labourers ' experience of the environment : |
| 45 | This would compel West Indians to produce more economically , and this they could only do by moving towards free labour and engaging the labourers ' personal material interests in their work . |
| 46 | The labourers ' houses disappear also . |
| 47 | Already the labourers ' wives were returning from the village , long loaves tucked under their arms . |
| 48 | You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons . |
| 49 | The overseers had exactly twice the labourers ' allowance , having both the upstairs unit and the one downstairs . |
| 50 | Their gardens , too , were twice as big as the labourers ' . |
| 51 | Of schooling in the East Riding in the 1790s , it was later recalled : When the labourers ' children could obtain employment from the farmers , the school was abandoned , and the youthful pupils were sent to cut weeds in the cornfields in the spring ; to frighten away the birds from the standing corn ; then to assist in harvest operations ; and next to glean the fields which had been reaped . |
| 52 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
| 53 | Conscious of the deficiencies of her own education , she attended evening classes in French , German , and geography at Queen 's College , introduced to these by the Revd David Laing , the honorary secretary of the Governesses ' Benevolent Institution and a major influence on her . |
| 54 | In the words of others he springs into action as a political firebrand , marching into the coal-owners ' offices and demanding justice for their exploited work-force , only to be told that the coal seams were too meagre and the profit margin too small to provide improvements in safety standards . |
| 55 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
| 56 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 57 | Previously , picketing had taken the form of pushing and shoving on both sides , but the confiscation of union banners and the pickets ' public address system by the police led to the throwing of stones and bottles by strikers . |
| 58 | This was the donkey-boys ' stand . |
| 59 | Adopting techniques long employed by the solicitors ' profession , the brochure sets out personal accounts of government legal work by serving lawyers . |
| 60 | She is also entitled to damages for her mental distress caused by the solicitors ' negligence . |