Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 Is he aware that there are problems not only in respect of teachers ' salaries , actual as opposed to average , but in respect of responsibility for the funding of the older village primary schools which predominate in rural areas ?
2 A bursary took her to Hamilton Academy , the kind of option not then normally on offer to steelworkers ' daughters .
3 Large-scale unionism has declined and management has been able to organize the labour process directly without concern for unions ' power .
4 There were 5 18 seats in all , shared out in proportion to members ' population size .
5 The campaign started a fortnight ago in response to residents ' complaints of nuisances caused by large scale cockling operations .
6 Co-ordination between subjects was lacking and the whole overloaded and exceptionally ambitious in scope requiring , moreover , a scale of expenditure well in excess of schools ' ability to pay for it .
7 ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) .
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