Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] ['s] pay " in BNC.

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1 The status and function of these courts came into question during one of the most critical of these enquiries , that presided over by Lord Wilberforce in 1972 into the dispute about miners ' pay which had led to a widespread stoppage of work .
2 IN A REPORT on August 3 1992 we gave details of a survey of directors ' pay conducted by the Labour Research Department .
3 Both American firms pay annual or biannual bonuses , and are searching for ways to link more of managers ' pay to performance .
4 At the same time , the slice of people 's pay packets that the government pocketed fell sharply — although indirect taxation , such as value adde tax , increased .
5 With our new spirit of centralization , both as an interim in the matter of teachers ' pay and conditions , and in that of the curriculum , and the more general removal of powers from Local Authorities , it may well be that we are imperceptibly going down the French road .
6 We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day .
7 It seems that it is impossible — or should be impossible — to discuss any aspect of teachers ' pay , however technical , without relating it to the quality of teachers ' performance and teaching methods .
8 Substantial elements of teachers ' pay and conditions will be subject to local determination , at the levels of the LEA and the school .
9 Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment .
10 They saw the union as being primarily concerned with keeping up levels of men 's pay and hence as the sphere and responsibility of men .
11 Well , their pay is three quarters of men 's pay .
12 Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 .
13 Secondly , since women are generally lower paid than men — earning on average about three-quarters of men 's pay — they are less likely to be able to afford cars .
14 They would be worth one-fifth of residents ' pay and cover half the value of the goods .
15 In the past the controversy about the nature of the role of the Commons has been reflected in arguments about the proper level of MPs ' pay .
16 Blushes and risk are the ways to deal with directors ' pay
17 Row grows over BMW perk in officials ' pay
18 The two largest union federations , Turk-Is and Hak-Is , which organized the strike , demanded an increase of 500 per cent in workers ' pay and called for an end to restrictive labour laws .
19 In Saratov itself it was suggested that there should be a 2 per cent deduction from water-workers ' pay in order to improve cultural facilities .
20 Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools .
21 increase in real terms in teachers ' pay and that there was an increase of only 6 per cent .
22 While the Government are rightly pursuing the pay review body , which I believe and certainly hope will result in a substantial rise in teachers ' pay , they are simultaneously engaged — not before time — in asking serious questions about some of the methods used in our schools , most recently in primary schools .
23 In supporting the order — one could scarcely do otherwise — I should like to stress that the way forward does not lie merely in improvements in teachers ' pay , necessary though they are .
24 Some small increases in women 's pay were implemented , but these did not significantly affect the differential between men and women .
25 Further , both Conservative and Labour Governments have sought to restrict increases in MPs ' pay so that Parliament does not give a bad example to the country and encourage more inflation .
26 Anyone who has the experience of employing workers will confirm the clear work incentive when less money is deducted at source from employees ' pay , even if the same overall sums are collected by Stamp Duty , VAT , and the like , for this later allows personal discretion as to what to do with one 's own money ; and such choice is important to people at every level of industrial life .
27 What he actually said , in a Commons debate about teachers ' pay , was that the shadow education spokesman was a ‘ silly woman ’ a comment as inaccurate as it may have been offensive .
28 for teachers ' pay , so the differential between Hampshire and my hon. Friend 's county is only 5 per cent .
29 The result of Mr Kenneth Baker 's current thinking on a national curriculum , on a new negotiating structure for teachers ' pay and conditions ind on increasing the independence ind financial responsibility of individual schools would be to make local education authorities largely redundant .
30 I hope that you , Mr. Speaker , will agree that there is a fundamental connection between teachers ' pay — and the mechanics of it — the esteem in which teachers are held and the methods that they use .
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