Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this conservative estimate of problem loans amounts to a striking 8% of the total loans in banks ' portfolios . |
| 2 | This may well be done through the normal structures of parents ' evenings and reports . |
| 3 | On economic issues , they agreed to limit profit to 50 per cent to restrain price rises under the prevailing conditions of producers ' monopolies . |
| 4 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 5 | As the market rises , so does banks ' capital , for it includes part of the unrealised gains on banks ' shareholdings ; up , too , goes banks ' ability to lend . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions . |
| 7 | The evaluation will consist of : — baseline criteria for the effectiveness of a computer based course — a description of critical aspects of course implementation — an analysis of the reciprocal interactions between teachers ' views of mathematics , mathematics teaching and computers and their progress on the course . |
| 8 | The false , fixed smiles of the salesmen on the machinery avenues and the grey-suited men on bankers ' row at the Royal Welsh Show contrasted sharply with the frowns of recession-hit livestock producers trying hard to stay in business . |
| 9 | The different patterns of boys ' and girls ' play were accounted for by suggesting that girls had acquired a more differentiated understanding of gender rules governing behaviour . |
| 10 | Once we recognize how far classroom competence has its roots in status and recognition , how closely the different elements of teachers ' lives are tied together in a coherent structure of meaning and motivation , then the policy implications lead us not to personality-based initiatives or more careful selection , compulsory redundancy to remove ‘ incompetents ’ from the profession , or redeployment and encouraging early retirement , but to strategies which will improve the levels of reward and recognition in the system in terms of pay , planning time , in-service opportunity and the like , and in terms of positive ( not punitive ) systems of staff support and development . |
| 11 | The CNAA would have to take account of the different rates of institutions ' development , but a move in this direction would enable committees and boards to have ‘ more time at their disposal to explore new developments and policy ’ . |
| 12 | As an illustrative point , consider the all-important distinction between spoken and written language , including the grammatical differences , the different constraints in the production of text , the differences in communication between writer and reader and speaker and listener and , in foreign language teaching , the different expectations of learners ' standards of production and reception . |
| 13 | In addition , the research is expected to shed light on the social consequences of cities ' changing economic roles . |
| 14 | Although the central confederations of employers ' associations are usually much less involved in collective bargaining than are the industry associations , nevertheless in a few countries the peak organisations do play a major role . |
| 15 | The area between the top and bottom lines roughly corresponds with the average gaps between couples ' earnings which we can observe in totally independent data like the Family Expenditure Survey discussed above . |
| 16 | The following samples of pupils ' work , written to explain their answers to the task , indicate the generalization strategies they used to find out how many squares were needed . |
| 17 | Only large eyes can resolve fine detail , so the tiny facets of insects ' eyes and the small eyes of spiders have poor resolution . |
| 18 | Clashes also occurred because of the rapacious actions of some Russians , because of the infringement of native hunting territories , and the settlement of peasants on pastures essential to the yearly migrations of pastoralists ' herds . |
| 19 | In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers ' co-management . |
| 20 | Although these low average incomes may be affected by the large numbers of pensioners ' households , there does seem to be a clear difference between urban and rural areas . |
| 21 | Some causes , he suggests , arise from texts themselves : the difficulty of apprehending the full range of meaning , and the inevitable differences in readers ' reactions to sound and imagery . |
| 22 | He must have become a fairly senior member of his own company , since he was one of the receiving trustees of Painter-Stainers ' Hall in 1580 , and one of those releasing the hall to others in 1605 . |
| 23 | These two easily ( or too easily ) targeted objectives of personality and performance are given much more extensive treatment than the more politically contentious issues of professional status and recognition , and the basic conditions of teachers ' work . |
| 24 | Then I taught in a secondary modern in Hackney , before getting involved in the pioneering days of schools ' drama , touring happily doing plays in schools and inspiring them to do their own . ’ |
| 25 | The project team will collect information on the benefits and disbenefits of the innovatory associate staff posts , and on their effect on the traditional boundaries of teachers ' roles in a representative sample of CTCs . |
| 26 | For them a build-up of the primary manifestations of commuters ' syndrome — tertiary dandruff and pyorrhoea of the gums — is regarded as being just a little bit natty . |
| 27 | His inclusion effectively ends the international ambitions of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , who destroyed Leeds on Wednesday night . |
| 28 | Jan Carnugorsky , then a Deputy Prime Minister , declared that with the adoption of this package the legal guarantees of citizens ' rights in Czechoslovakia had been brought in line with international agreements and obligations . |
| 29 | In each of these contexts — HMI reports , APU exercises or national reading surveys — to move from national assessment to a local authority assessment and then to a school 's performance ( summed up in the achievement of its individual pupils ) provided a method of finding out whether , in some of the measurable parts of schools ' work , matters were standing still or edging forward . |
| 30 | The profound implications for pupils ' relationships with their families and communities should be recognised . |