Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And their strange adaptations , such as the finches ' beaks , must be a response to the new and strange environment in which they found themselves .
2 At that time , when the Nikkei 225 index was trading at 26,230 , more than half by value of the warrants outstanding were more than 20% ‘ out of the money ’ : in other words ( see table ) , they needed the issuers ' share prices to rise by at least that amount to reach the exercise price .
3 On the contemnors ' appeals : —
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5 Thanks to him and the rest who are behind these outrageous accusations , the Pakistanis ' reputations will probably be in tatters. —
6 They should not have disputed the decision as they did , and any suggestion that this was an early ingredient in the Pakistanis ' exasperation deserves little sympathy .
7 This fantasy is compounded in ads for sports shoes by Nike or Reebok , in which the superstars ' looks are almost as spectacular as their talent .
8 Now the superstars ' magic begins to take over .
9 With this in mind I travelled to Woburn for the Superstars ' Celebrity Challenge .
10 And if the scientists felt that they could speak with certainty , how much more so the lesser publicists and ideologists who were all the more certain of the experts ' certainties , because they could understand most of what the experts said , at least in so far as it could still be said without the use of higher mathematics .
11 The parties have to disclose , within 14 weeks , the substance of the experts ' evidence on which they intend to rely , in the form of written reports to be agreed if possible .
12 The participants can fail to express their views , the experts ' expertise can be withheld , people can fail to attend , fail to contribute , or fail to follow through .
13 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 .
14 When the defendant has served his comments , the schedule should be lodged with the court , so that the trial judge can , before the hearing starts , get a clear picture of which of the issues raised in the case are agreed and which disputed and why from the pleadings , the experts ' reports and the schedule .
15 Read the experts ' advice : then enter the SHE/Pandora Short Story Competition and you could win £1000 .
16 It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter .
17 Begonia leaf cuttings Take a leaf out of the experts ' book with our guide to increasing your stocks of foliage begonias .
18 This time delay can have safety and/or economic consequences hence the need to accelerate the experts ' diagnosis and decision processes .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 There were elements in its thinking , however , which were akin to the Keynesians ' views .
22 Over succeeding years , the seafarers ' unions of several countries managed to secure improved conditions for work in the area .
23 The overseers had exactly twice the labourers ' allowance , having both the upstairs unit and the one downstairs .
24 Leapor focuses her description on the labourers ' experience of the environment :
25 The labourers ' houses disappear also .
26 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 .
27 You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons .
28 Already the labourers ' wives were returning from the village , long loaves tucked under their arms .
29 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 .
30 Wilson had borne a personal grudge against ‘ politically motivated ’ militants ever since the seamen 's strike of 1966 had spoiled his incomes policy and the attempted revival of the balance of payments upon which he had staked so much of his credibility .
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