Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the International Association of Culinary Professionals ' conference in the US , Henrietta Green was given a Julia Child Cookbook Award for A Glorious Harvest ( Sedgwood Press ) . |
| 2 | Our report was based on the Association of American Publishers ' Newsletter , which in a recent issue reported as follows : |
| 3 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 4 | The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money . |
| 5 | There also arrived a strong deputation from the DHSS : the Minister of State , now of much greater fame , Dr David Owen ; the Permanent Under-Secretary , Sir Patrick Nairne , and Barbara 's most trusted right-hand man , a beardless youth , then recently the president of some students ' association , named Jack Straw , with whom I had occasion to cross swords later . |
| 6 | The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups . |
| 7 | She heard mention of six months ' imprisonment , and was terrified that she 'd be locked up for doing nothing . |
| 8 | The foreman had naturally hit the roof over the loss of thirty minutes ' production , which would pull down his departmental output and efficiency target and had roundly reprimanded the shop steward for taking such unauthorised action without first bringing the alleged safety hazard to his attention , in line with normal company standard practice . |
| 9 | This report was the result of four months ' research , including material relating to Britain , Belgium , South Africa , Canada and the US , and noted that the IDA 's and the IIRS 's ‘ complacent attitude ’ towards asbestos was not shared by many eminent bodies throughout the world and that there was movement towards the phasing out of asbestos . |
| 10 | ‘ Fields of Vision — Dreams of View ’ — Dawson 's first exhibition dedicated to personal creative work and the result of two years ' work in collage — is showing at Smiths ' Gallery 3 in Covent Garden from 17–22 February . |
| 11 | The walk-in centre is the result of two years ' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal . |
| 12 | Called PRC 565 , it is a new generation product and the result of two years ' development involving American and British scientists . |
| 13 | Not all the Le Monde journalists support the change , which is the result of two years ' market research and several dummy editions . |
| 14 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 15 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
| 16 | In the same week in which the Wall Street Journal editorial appeared , it was announced in Britain that an extensive study of lone parents ' reliance on social security would be carried out after comments from Ministers that the state is having to foot the bill for the so-called dependency culture ( Guardian , 18 January 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 17 | Magnum/Mayall/Nelson 's ( 1985 ) study of American employers ' use of temporary workers used the same " on-off " break in conducting its analysis . |
| 18 | As an example Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) quote the fact that with a westerly gale of twelve hours ' duration in the Atlantic the size of the waves reaching Cornwall would be limited by the time and not by the fetch , i.e. the distance between Cornwall and America . |
| 19 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |
| 20 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 21 | The interest spread to other disciplines , even to such apparently distant research areas as the relationship between ratings of female singers ' androgyny , and their music genre and record sleeve images ( Thaxton and Jaret 1985 ) . |
| 22 | The continued reliance throughout on independent directors as the cornerstone of good corporate governance , as the Financial Times notes , is an indication of institutional investors ' reluctance to play a fuller role in the direction of the companies they have shares in . |
| 23 | The pagination Table ( 6.4 ) gives a rough indication of national dailies ' increase in size ( new type faces and better ink eventually meant more words per page ) . |
| 24 | A wide range of source material will be examined , including the prison and court records of militant suffragettes jailed in Scotland , minute books of Scottish women 's suffrage associations , and newspaper reports , memoirs , and letters of suffragists , suffragettes , and those who opposed women 's suffrage . |
| 25 | Just as for a play , Nichols had the luxury of three weeks ' rehearsal on The Graduate before shooting began on location in Los Angeles , Berkeley and San Francisco . |
| 26 | The Royal College of General Practitioners ' research unit has designated the virus H3N2 , English Flu , as having reached epidemic proportions , affecting more than 100 people in every 100,000 . |
| 27 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 28 | When this risk is compared to other cancer risks , it is found that the lifelong risk from passive smoking is more than 100 times higher than the estimated effect of 20 years ' exposure to chrysotile asbestos normally found in asbestos-containing buildings [ 5 ] . |
| 29 | The Soviet military responded to the demand by noting that troops could not leave before the completion of Soviet forces ' withdrawal from Eastern Europe , partly because of the difficulties involved in rehousing troops . |
| 30 | The importance which the legislature attached to the observance of the regulatory system is demonstrated by section 4 , which makes a contravention of section 3 an offence , punishable on conviction on indictment by a term of two years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |