Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can imagine at the convention the bias was very much towards preserving states ' independence . |
| 2 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 3 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 4 | From the G M B point of view , of course , we have quite a sporting section and we 're proud to have this link er , with both of the organizations and we 're pleased to have been of some assistance to the er , British Boxers ' Asso Professional Boxers ' Association er , in er , this launch and establishment we felt , because we 've got the Scottish professional footballers , who are well established and er , are very much an integral part of the G M B and we 've got the Northern Ireland er , footballers , we 've got the rugby players and we 've got speedway riders all of which come under . |
| 5 | Can I , on behalf of er , the G M B , Barry erm , make a presen presentation to you This is the er , first er , picture that was taken at the launch of the Professional Boxers ' Association . |
| 6 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
| 7 | But very , very quickly erm , I 'm actually delighted that this organization has helped breathe the life into not only the Professional Boxers ' Association , we are extremely grateful . |
| 8 | Targets would now be more specific , equipment more deadly , and the whole Combined Operations ' set-up run like a taut ship in the fashion of the destroyer HMS Kelly , which the CCO had sunk beneath him off Crete earlier that year . |
| 9 | The Combined Operations ' planners were in Richmond Terrace near Whitehall , yet conveniently distant from service ministries . |
| 10 | In June the FNTT , under the pressure of rising rural unemployment and employer intransigence , called an agricultural labourers ' strike , the swift collapse of which dealt a serious blow to the entire UGT . |
| 11 | NUAAW dates from 1906 when , in response to political victimization and tied cottage evictions in Norfolk , the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers ' and Small Holders ' Union was founded in North Walsham . |
| 12 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 13 | For example , the size of agricultural labourers ' families , one of the poorest paid occupational groups , remained high . |
| 14 | Through an explosive expansion , especially in southern Spain , of its rural labourers ' section , the FNTT ( National Landworkers Federation ) , the UGT was suddenly transformed from an organization consisting primarily of skilled urban workers into one decisively influenced by the worst-off members of the agricultural labour force . |
| 15 | • Suitable for use in conjunction with European Profiles ' Insulation systems , thus providing leak proof membrane combined with insulation to meet current Building Regulations . |
| 16 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 17 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 18 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 19 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
| 20 | In those days , we had n't got chromium buttons — I had gone home soaked to the skin , after eight hours ' rain , dried the stuff and was coming out next morning . |
| 21 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 22 | Last year Grundig promised to launch an ‘ autoreverse ’ machine , to give eight hours ' continuous recording on a V2000 cassette , but it never appeared . |
| 23 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 24 | For eight hours ' sleep , I 'd knock off God and hang the frame on Jesus . |
| 25 | Rather a dreary , grey looking place not very eye catching to me but that did n't matter the next eight hours ' driving did . |
| 26 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 27 | He was now preparing his speech to the Academy , due to meet in eight hours ' time at the behest of the military . |
| 28 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 29 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 30 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |