Example sentences of "[noun] ' [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voluminous Extel archives , giving a unique insight into Victorian journalists ' news-gathering methods ( and expenses claims ) are now in London 's Guildhall Library awaiting a researcher . |
| 2 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the recent history of the DUP , despite journalists ' frequent attempts to portray Paisley as a man sufficiently set on personal power to be willing to compromise to achieve it . |
| 3 | Journalists ' special rights |
| 4 | Ironically , the Halls ' major income in 1992 has come not from audiences but from recording companies . |
| 5 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 6 | Before November 9 , the visitor to the derelict Potsdamer Platz , where no trams run on the ancient tramlines which now lead nowhere , could mount the viewing platform by the tourist kiosks on the western side and peer across the Grepo border guards ' free fire zone at the drab buildings a quarter of a mile away in the east . |
| 7 | Second , the study will collect detailed information about informants ' economic life experiences and their own perceptions of those experiences — in paid work and out of it ; with regard to housing and use of public and private welfare provision ; in respect of household finance and domestic ‘ divisions of labour ’ . |
| 8 | Therefore despite the very real difficulties of trying to force ‘ emic ’ data into analytical categories of my own devising , I have classified my informants ' communityoriented responses into nine categories of community-level effect . |
| 9 | That the standard of the Fiji tournament — which according to such a seasoned sevens campaigner as the Scots ' assistant coach , John Jeffrey , reached unprecedented highs — was beyond question . |
| 10 | It was to last throughout the 1540s , and then go into abeyance , lying dormant — despite Mary Queen of Scots ' burning awareness of her position as Elizabeth 's heir presumptive — until it had to be faced again , when James VI succeeded to the English throne in 1603 . |
| 11 | The tie is sponsored by Carmen Furniture , appropriate to the musical chairs likely for the Scots ' second outing and key to qualification for the knock-out stages — against Canada — where the intention is that Tony Stanger and Carl Hogg will play . |
| 12 | Chelsea-bound Kharin was due to make his farewell appearance for CSKA Moscow in the Scots ' second match of the champions ' league in Bochum . |
| 13 | The Scots ' encircling assault , however spectacular , was not likely to break that tight formation and overwhelm the enemy . |
| 14 | Kenny Milne is far and away the Scots ' best hooker and his injury robbed them of a great deal in both tests . |
| 15 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 16 | This has always seemed to make sense , despite the Scots ' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles , and one 's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket . |
| 17 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 18 | The Scots ' other two tries came from the St Andrews wing , David Hall , both scores resulting from crisp handling in the midfield , where Peter Flockhart at inside centre was one of the Scots ' big successes . |
| 19 | We helped second-hand car-buyers , too , when we uncovered British School of Motoring 's clever dodge for covering up their cars ' real origins when they sold them on . |
| 20 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 21 | Richard Strauss ' explosive Salome fell foul of Vienna censorship . |
| 22 | Figure 1 shows the Units ' administrative structure . |
| 23 | WHEN the Royal Bank 's general arts sponsorship programme took the premier award at the Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ' annual prizegiving . |
| 24 | Federal funding for the arts occupies a tiny part of the national budget , but in the last administration became a cause celèbre when the question of National Endowment for the Arts ' occasional support for provocative and sexually explicit art aroused the fury of conservatives led by Senator Jesse Helms , who whipped up popular support for a move to curb or cut the N.E.A. 's budget . |
| 25 | After a year or two down in Kent , Northern Arts ' erstwhile Literature Officer , Jenny Attala , comes back to the region as Principal Officer in the Published and Broadcast Arts Department . |
| 26 | The current commissioner , Luis Cancel , disputes that version of events , and pledges to place the arts ' economic role at the center of an effort to secure more funding or at least resist further budget cuts . |
| 27 | And perhaps this is the Arts ' greatest contribution to the education of the child ; it helps him develop character and personality . |
| 28 | Just before the trapdoor slammed shut , cutting off de Raimes ' harsh laughter and the additional light from above , Isabel saw an indistinct lump in one corner . |
| 29 | More important , in practice , but still faulty were the ratios applied by credit-rating firms in deciding how to grade insurers ' claims-paying ability . |
| 30 | In the event of a change in the standard terms applying to the Insurers ' usual forms of Household Buildings insurances the Society will be notified and this notice will be deemed to be sufficient notification in respect of all such policies as may be subject to this Agreement . |