Example sentences of "and [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 2 | The agreement has now been reached and erm that is provided for in the amount the Council has for pay and price increases , and when we yesterday the Council agreed to cash limit it 's inflationary provision that was exclusive of teachers ' and lecturers ' pay , so that is secured , the cost is secured . |
| 3 | For people 's and birds ' delight . |
| 4 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study of two-parent families on benefit , the majority ( 58 per cent ) of the couples reported that the woman was responsible for managing the money ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study of two-parent , two-child households on benefit , about three-quarters of the women and men lacked more than two items of basic clothing , with women 's clothing tending to be in the worst condition and children 's in the best ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | In Bradshaw and Holmes ' study , 96 per cent of claimant households with children had debts averaging £441 , and with an average weekly repayment which represented 12 per cent of their weekly income ( Bradshaw and Holmes , 1989 , p. 44 ) . |
| 7 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 8 | Their Horadam watercolours , Mussini resin oils and artists ' gouache may already be familiar to many readers of The Artist . |
| 9 | There is a healthy mingling of ancient and modern crafts with pottery , woodwork , patchwork , weaving , leatherwork , jewellery , and artists ' stall . |
| 10 | Take a good look at the Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook , which lists the publishers of all the books on the library shelves , plus some you may not have come across yet . |
| 11 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 12 | It was , therefore , refreshing to discover a nest of technological progressives , all claiming allegiance to the international Labour movement , gathered together at the General Municipal and Boilermakers ' Union ( GMB ) national training school in Manchester the other week . |
| 13 | Certain fossils have , for some inexplicable reason , taken root in the literature and palaeontologists ' subconscious and so been recorded everywhere . |
| 14 | Widowhood was thus duly recognised as an insurable risk — like unemployment or sickness — and widows ' benefit was introduced . |
| 15 | All such pensions came to be known , in common parlance , as ‘ private pensions ’ , to distinguish them from the state pensions first introduced in 1908 for indigent elderly people over 70 , followed later ( 1925 ) by contributory state retirement and widows ' pension schemes . |
| 16 | The Bank Pensioners ' and Widows ' Association Western Region Annual Dinner was held in the Banba Hotel , Salthill on 26th March . |
| 17 | Mr. Frank Shaw , left , receiving IBOA cheque £900 on behalf of Pensioners ' and Widows ' Association , Western Region from Mr. Pat O'C Hegarty at the Annual Dinner which was held in the Banba Hotel , Salthill on 26th March . |
| 18 | Of orphic goddesses and Minos ' treasure troves |
| 19 | Open Access — development of which has been part-funded by Progress — provides a link between Object Design 's ObjectStore database and Progress ' development environment and 4GL . |
| 20 | Herodotus ' Samian tyrant Polykrates was brought a present of an enormous fish by a fisherman and a good story was attached — but Suetonius ' Tiberius and Juvenal 's Domitian were also brought large fish to which good stories were attached ; again Tarquin in Livy and Herodotus ' Thrasybulus of Miletus both recommend ‘ pruning the tallest poppies ’ , i.e. eliminating noble dissidents . |
| 21 | If Leonard and Moore become an effective unit and Lions ' newcomer Martin Johnson plays to his normal form , there is the possibility of a dozen Englishmen in the second Test . |
| 22 | A similar policy for mentally ill people moved patients at record speed from asylum to cardboard box , tent , and lions ' cage . |
| 23 | ASSISTANT MASTERS ' AND MISTRESSES ' ASSOCIATION |
| 24 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the 120,000-strong Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the general election result meant that hundreds of schools would seek to leave local authority control ‘ within the next few weeks ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the union was already dealing with 500 cases of possible redundancy among its members . |
| 26 | YESTERDAY 'S endorsement of grant-maintained schools by Peter Smith , the General Secretary of the Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , marked a significant change in his union 's attitude towards the Government 's education reforms . |
| 27 | The former shows that there is no non-paradoxical way of getting from individuals ' preference to a coherent social choice ; the latter , by analysing Chicken and Prisoners ' Dilemma , clarifies the problem of voluntary co-operation to achieve valued goals . |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher 's former banker , and Denis ' golfing chum , appointed head of the Bank of England to general astonishment in the world of finance . |
| 29 | The principal documents relevant to the equity transaction are the subscription and shareholders ' agreement and the Articles of Association of Newco . |
| 30 | Subscription and shareholders ' agreement |