Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Financial Times , which accorded WHS ' ‘ poor figures ’ only three short paragraphs , nevertheless managed to include a mention of analysts ' concern at the decline in margins and disappointments at the tone of the post-results meeting . |
| 2 | The submission calls for changes that will require all companies to include a statement of directors ' responsibilities in their annual reports . |
| 3 | It will be used by owners , and other users for making decisions in respect of continued investment in that enterprise and help them to form a judgement of managers ' performance etc . |
| 4 | A Cleveland council leader criticised new regulations forcing councils to publish a register of members ' Page 4 . |
| 5 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |
| 6 | For example a curriculum leader in a small primary school leads a small group to scrutinise a selection of pupils ' work from different year groups to examine progression and continuity and their relation to the National Curriculum a department in a secondary school reviews its curricular provision ; assesses the implications of the National Curriculum for that subject ; analyses policies and practice on pupil assessment ; analyses examination/test results ; reviews pupils ' written work to check on progression and continuity a team considers relations with parents and the wider community the head , a deputy or a senior teacher leads a working party on topics such as cross-curricular issues , curriculum provision as a whole , pupil attendance , school documentation the staff development or INSET co-ordinator leads a working party to review staff development , INSET provision and dissemination , teacher appraisal , care of probationer teachers ( DES 1989e:8 ) . |
| 7 | He 'd managed to grab a couple of hours ' sleep in the cell since they 'd brought him in , but it was scarcely enough to refresh him . |
| 8 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 9 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 10 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 11 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 12 | Thus , to get a picture of pupils ' understanding of what a triangle is , it is not sufficient to ask them to name one exemplar ( especially if it is a special case such as an equilateral triangle ) , nor to draw one exemplar , for they are likely to draw a special case . |
| 13 | For example , the QUESTOR command : PRINT FROM EMP INCLUDE NAME , BIRTHDATE ! tells the system to print a list of employees ' names and birthdates . |
| 14 | A significant proportion of the public must have the impression that their library services are regularly prey to the ad hoc , impulsive indulgence of liberal/authoritarian , prurient/puritanical , left-wing/right-wing librarians , rather than guided by a set of selection policies trying to achieve a balance of users ' and nonusers ' educational and leisure needs and preferences , circumscribed by statutory requirements , within the limits of financial reality . |