Example sentences of "an [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservatives are foolishly lulling themselves with their own rhetoric if they think that the reformed Labour Party is an image-makers ' fantasy . |
| 2 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 3 | This reflects a Thatcherite judgment that the CSA , an employers ' association representing over 300 companies , has more clout than a chartered professional institute with 30,000 registered members . |
| 4 | There would be an MP from each of the three parties , a token Welsh and Scottish member , an employers ' representative and one from the trade unions , an economist , a social worker ( ‘ preferably a woman ’ ) , a local authority representative and two members nominated by the Commonwealth and colonial secretaries . |
| 5 | This tendency has been especially marked within large establishments in the engineering and chemical industries , although multi-employer bargaining by means of an employers ' organisation still remains the predominant pattern in highly competitive industries with low capitalisation and a high ease of entry such as clothing , construction and printing ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy . |
| 7 | In the building industry , not only in France but also in Sweden , West Germany , Italy , as well as in Britain , the main body was ( and still is ) both an employers ' and a trade association since it is not easy to separate the negotiation of wages from matters such as agreed arrangements for contract tendering . |
| 8 | Conversely , in the case of the metalworking industry in all these five countries the main body is exclusively an employers ' association , since the great diversity and heterogeneous product range of the industry ( basic steel , cars , electrical equipment , etc. ) precluded representation via a single trade association . |
| 9 | A claimant dissatisfied with the decision of the insurance officer could have the decision reviewed by a local Court of Referees consisting of a chairman appointed by the Minister of Trade , one member chosen from an employers ' panel and one member chosen from a workmen 's panel . |
| 10 | By February 1890 , this temporary arrangement had extended its coverage and become permanent with the establishment of an Employers ' Labour Association representing thirty of the principal steamship owners and twenty master stevedores and porters who together employed some three-fifths of the seamen and dockers in the port . |
| 11 | Delegates , the abolition of the Wages Council is an employment ch an employers ' chapter to create sweatshops . |
| 12 | Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto . |
| 13 | Lucy was full of her holiday and an artists ' colony where Jeremy might just settle . |
| 14 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |
| 15 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 16 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point means intentionally as opposed to accidentally and unlawfully as opposed to lawfully such as an artists ' model . |
| 17 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 18 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 19 | it is an artists ' book of the first order , the making of which has been managed from beginning to end by the artist herself , thereby satisfying her desire for creative control over every aspect of its production . |
| 20 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 21 | And they dismissed an inspectors ' report which doubted standards were being maintained . |
| 22 | STARS & STRIPES became Stars & Gripes yesterday , as her crew made no attempt to conceal their disgust at an umpires ' decision which cost them their race against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 23 | He imagined a policeman with nothing more to go on than a tiny , once brightly embroidered , label , a square inch of bloodstained , earth-stained , half-rotted cloth , hawking it round boutiques in Kilburn and West Hendon , narrowing the field , finally coming to an importers ' warehouse … |
| 24 | These set the minimum amount of capital ( free assets , or the amount by which an insurers ' assets exceed the actuarial calculation of its liabilities ) that an insurer must have to reassure customers and regulators that it can meet its liabilities . |
| 25 | An Instructors ' Convention is to be held at the Gleneagles Mark Phillips Equestrian Centre on Monday 6 April 1992 . |
| 26 | Mick O'Donnell is considering an instructors ' conference in the UK during 1992 . |
| 27 | Afterwards he had completed his training as a fighter pilot , performing so well that he was assigned to take an instructors ' course with the Navy at San Diego . |
| 28 | THE BEATLES and other former pop stars are set for a new royalties bonanza under an artistes ' rights deal agreed by the EC yesterday . |
| 29 | At an ecologists ' conference chez Goldsmith , one guest persuaded Branson to push Sir Jimmy into his own swimming pool to help him let down what remains of his hair . |
| 30 | Why is n't there an Engineers ' Corner in Westminster Abbey ? |