Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , in Germany firms such as Siemens originally joined employers ' associations yet never fully relied on them as a collective means of defending managerial prerogatives and curtailing union activities in the workplace . |
| 2 | Given employers ' lack of knowledge about qualifications and the relatively arbitrary way in which they use them , it is difficult to give credence to the widespread notion that they are dissatisfied with the educational levels of young workers . |
| 3 | Amongst firms wound up early on , Prior Harwin was alleged to have mixed clients ' money with its own , to have been mismanaged , and to have had insufficient indemnity insurance . |
| 4 | This gradual increase in kindness and humanity towards horses has paralleled peoples ' increasing consideration of other people and the education and treatment of children . |
| 5 | DB32 , as it became colloquially known , was the long awaited planners ' guide , advising on the considerations which should be taken into account in the layout of residential roads and footpaths in new housing schemes , as well as in improvement areas . |
| 6 | Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes . |
| 7 | Furthermore , once achieved , these targets no longer constrained individuals ' aspirations or behaviour ; instead , successful individuals experienced a release from moral and social binds . |
| 8 | The scribbling and spinning mills which were erected in the river valleys soon attracted workers ' houses alongside them . |
| 9 | Those in the latter group — the reluctant early retirers — conform directly to what have been described in the USA as ‘ discouraged workers ' ( Sorrentino 1981 : 168 ; and for a discussion of the discouraged worker effect based on British Labour Force survey data , see Laczko 1987 ) . |
| 10 | But hotting is n't ; apparently it 's considered joyriders ' slang that 's not yet used by the general public . |
| 11 | The chairman-designate , Uwe Kuntze , of a West German company alleged to have been involved in the manufacture of a chemical weapons plant in Rabta , Libya , admitted that the firm , Imhausen-Chemie , had appeared " not to have respected regulations ' during the affair but protested that the company had not acted " intentionally or maliciously " . |
| 12 | Giant and inefficient marketing boards have had the opposite effect of their nominal purpose , and have further squeezed farmers ' margins . |
| 13 | No examples of the specially designed vine-dressers ' knife ( falx vinitoria ) have been found in Britain , but other types of small hooked tools with cutting edges ( falcula vineatica ) were in use . |
| 14 | Controversy has surrounded Saints ' clashes with Cheshire this season , with first Nottage then Colin Kirkham being sent off in close games . |
| 15 | When it did , Aung San and his friends were outspoken and firm , and Communist popularity waned , even in the country districts where they had organised cultivators ' unions , advocated the non-payment of taxes and rent , and promised the confiscation of land and its division among the landless and debt-ridden peasants . |
| 16 | The idea of a specially designed dolls ' house for Queen Mary , the wife of King George V , was first conceived in the spring of 1921 by a first cousin of the King , Princess Marie Louise . |
| 17 | Some firms have resisted : Kellogg , which has seen own-labels ' share of the cereal market double since 1988 , is now emblazoning its boxes with the slogan ‘ We do n't make cereal for anyone else . ’ |
| 18 | ( We 'd learned in science about Galvin and his electrically operated frogs ' legs ; if they could do it , why not relics ? ) |
| 19 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |
| 20 | The simultaneous plunges in share and property prices have weakened banks ' capital ratios so drastically that no single Japanese bank boasts a Triple A credit rating . |
| 21 | Alongside resolutions on Russia and Peace , the Convention called for the immediate restoration of civil liberties , and for the establishment of all-inclusive local committees to carry forward the agitation — provocatively named Workers ' and Soldiers , Councils . |
| 22 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 23 | McCall , who has missed Rangers ' last three games with a throat infection , was desperate to get a game before flying to Berne with Scotland 's World Cup squad . |
| 24 | Goram has not played since receiving a kick on the knee against FC Brugge ; Gough has missed Rangers ' last five matches because of a hamstring problem ; Steven has played only once during that time , as has Ferguson ; while Huistra last featured in Smith 's team against Arbroath ten days ago when Arbroath were eliminated from the Scottish Cup ten days ago . |
| 25 | Men , on the other hand , were granted dependants ' benefits under national insurance in 1922 , plus the married man 's tax allowance from 1919 , on the assumption that a man supporting a wife needed additional tax relief ( in fact the allowance was paid to all men regardless of whether or not their wives worked ) . |
| 26 | Many suspect that it has weakened auditors ' ability to take a strong line with directors . |
| 27 | Someone 's hand had torn away three quarters of the days of the desktop calendar and filled a wastebasket with them , and someone had written girls ' names and telephone numbers on the blotters . |
| 28 | In addition , two female science students who had attended girls ' grammar schools felt that they had been disadvantaged : |
| 29 | Geoff Hamilton has compiled the attractively presented Gardeners ' World Practical Gardening Course ( March , £19.99 until September , then £25 , 0563 36267 7 ) . |
| 30 | Employers who have attended students ' debriefing sessions have found them most illuminating . |