Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed . |
| 2 | So in spite of Reaganite sneers and the activities of hostile employers ' organisations such as the Equal Employment Advisory Committee , progress for North American women and minority people is being made . |
| 3 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 4 | This transformation was usually accompanied by the enlargement of the area of jurisdiction of the kadilik through the addition of other districts in the vicinity : Konya , for example , was made a mevleviyet in 977/1569 " with the addition of certain sub-districts ' and the appointee later moved on to Maras , the kadilik of which was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Elbistan ; and Selanik , as mentioned above , was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Sidrekapsi . |
| 5 | The chart shows the weakness of Japanese banks ' overall BIS ratios even before the Tokyo market began to fall . |
| 6 | Pressure on consultants to work faster , participate in audit and management , and accept financial responsibility for their clinical work , coupled with the reduction in junior doctors ' hours , were considered to militate against educational developments . |
| 7 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 8 | Greer , for instance , aims to produce change by ‘ bending and selecting ’ the meanings of male psychologists ' words : ‘ What else can they be for ? |
| 9 | It might also prove illuminating if we adopt a dialectical approach , considering , for instance , the conflicts between different characters ' conversational behaviour . |
| 10 | A rights issue has the advantage of preserving shareholders ' pre-emption rights in respect of a new issue of the offeror 's shares , whereas this is not possible with a cash underwritten alternative unless accompanied by an open offer and clawback ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Stockholm : Dealers welcomed the rise in other countries ' interest rates as it closes the gap with Sweden 's own high rates , which are unchanged . |
| 12 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 13 | Peter Vallone , who heads the 50 Democrats ( out of 51 members ) on the city council , regrets that so few New Yorkers appear to appreciate the significance of a change in City Hall 's procedures since 1989 : committees of the council , says Mr Vallone , have brought new muscle to bear in the monitoring of mayoral agencies ' budgets . |
| 14 | In order to fulfil its declared aim of formulating the rules of human individuals ' behaviour and experience scientifically , psychology needs principally to study individual behaviour , unaffected by social interactions . |
| 15 | This document made it clear that the responsibility for determining coordinators ' roles rested with the heads , who were encouraged to choose from the 1985 specification provided by the Authority . |
| 16 | Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management . |
| 17 | This may well reflect the effect of the recession on manual workers ' perceptions of work — the importance of being in employment even if this means changing home . |
| 18 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 19 | Though there are many disadvantages as well as advantages in the use of microcomputers for information retrieval , the major advantage is that computerized information retrieval can provide a strong link between the school library and the curriculum by increasing pupils ' exposure to new technologies as both a learning and retrieval tool , regardless of subject area , and increase the use of resources in the school . |
| 20 | Our report was based on the Association of American Publishers ' Newsletter , which in a recent issue reported as follows : |
| 21 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 24 | In reporting a national conference in February 1988 , Earley ( 1988 : 64 – 5 ) reported : As for the future of annual governors ' reports and APMs , most participants agreed they provided an opportunity for governors , teachers and parents to work together . |
| 25 | Professional Footballers ' Association leader Gordon Taylor spoke out about this type of body blow in last week 's ‘ Soccer In Crisis ’ investigation when he was asked by the Echo over spiralling players ' wages . |
| 26 | The revision phase of the operation differs from the initial phase in that it takes account of weaknesses ( and strengths ) inherent in the stock from previous years ' book buying , and also in that it provides indications of the need for weeding the stock of individual categories , in addition to purchasing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Making use of the Department of Modern Languages ' Médiathèque and Language Laboratory facilities . |
| 29 | SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods . |
| 30 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |