Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 20 per cent , however , were willing to assume any responsibility for payment of teachers ' salaries . |
| 2 | If , however , estimates are made which take into account need for medical care , then the association between use of doctors ' services and socio-economic group becomes stronger . |
| 3 | There should be opportunities for discussion of patients ' subsequent management on a regular basis with experienced therapists . |
| 4 | Indeed recent surveys by the National Foundation for Educational Research have revealed that there is often a great deal of confusion in pupils ' minds , particularly as so many educational programmes for history now employ dramatic reconstruction . |
| 5 | Under the Bill , responsibility for the administration of funding for nurses ' education will be transferred from the national boards of Wales , Scotland and England to health authorities and health boards . |
| 6 | He posits a difference in the attitude to risk on the part of management on the one hand and shareholders on the other , the former being much more risk averse than the latter , given the effect of insolvency on managers ' jobs and on the value of their shareholdings in the company ( which often constitute a considerable proportion of their total wealth ) , together with the possibility of personal liability in the event of winding up . |
| 7 | FORENSIC scientists are using techniques originally developed to catch arsonists to detect traces of glue in sniffers ' blood . |
| 8 | Such a code would be concerned with a commonsense size of user party , but it might equally address issues such as litter removal ( incl. bags of salt and empty whisky bottles ) , defaecating against outside walls and the drawing of genitalia in visitors ' books . |
| 9 | As Venables issued his plea , Alan Sugar delivered a vote of confidence to Spurs ' management team of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence . |
| 10 | A certificate course , whether postgraduate or not , may also be linked to the diploma and masters ' courses , providing a progressive programme of study from certificate to masters ' level . |
| 11 | Possessors of the book and of good memories could become the lions of weather-talk on commuters ' trains . |
| 12 | The particular contribution of the teaching of French to pupils ' perceptions will be explored through observation by a researcher based in the two schools over a period of at least six months . |
| 13 | He asked for and was sent Sketches of Anatomy for Artists ' Use , and struggled to teach himself the complexities of bones and muscles by endless copying . |
| 14 | Even in Liverpool , which had some eighty years experience of organization to protect the shipowning interest in parliament , there was " an utter and lamentable want of cohesion among employers ' on matters affecting labour . |
| 15 | Chapter 13 identifies two key concepts in the law of challenge to experts ' decisions : ( 1 ) the law of contract ; and ( 2 ) mistake . |
| 16 | Implied terms underpin the law of challenge to experts ' decisions , because some basic terms are not spelled out : namely , that the parties would not accept a final decision intended to have binding effect when that decision was vitiated by dishonesty , partiality or mistake . |
| 17 | In what ways would your reading have been altered by the following instructions : ( a ) Find out about the effects of industry on workers ' standards of living . |
| 18 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 19 | Payments may also be made by companies in respect of expatriates ' properties in the home country . |
| 20 | Despite an agreement reached in late August that files of the East German State Security police ( " Stasi " ) would remain in East Germany after unification [ see p. 37661 ] , the question in particular of MPs ' and ministers ' alleged Stasi involvement remained a major issue . |
| 21 | They also belong to an enjoying retirement group run by Network , a local community organisation , which arranges outings , debates , and lectures in response to members ' ideas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The hiatus after 1986 relates to a crisis arising from a large volume of issuance in relation to demand at excessively tight spreads , although it was triggered by concerns regarding regulation of banks ' issues ( see Davis , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | Munich venue for final of Champions ' Cup |
| 25 | It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van . |
| 26 | The most important right is the right of lien over guests ' property . |
| 27 | Many respondents found the discussion paper 's proposals in this area confusing or illogical , which caused the Board to re-examine it and to propose requiring disclosure only of the total amounts of the respective kinds of interest in shareholders ' funds . |
| 28 | The decision is expected to have widespread implications in connection with liquidators ' attempts to recover other bank debts with UK companies . |
| 29 | While the uncovered debts of the banks in respect of residents ' foreign exchange deposits are known more or less precisely , the amount of the banks ' other uncovered foreign liabilities is a matter of guesswork . |
| 30 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |