Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A headhunter needs to be an excellent listener , receptive , willing and able to see the difference in peoples ' backgrounds and how those people might fit into a very different environment . |
| 2 | By the end of the year the UDC , which in the summer had fully backed Leeds and urged its local branches to support the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers Councils , had come round to full support for the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Where the national audit offices are not in a position to meet the Court of Auditors ' requirements , private professional firms should be asked to do so . ’ |
| 4 | The research methodology will include the use of questionnaires to establish the range of pupils ' perceptions . |
| 5 | By raising the apparent value of Guinness 's shares in this way , they had hoped to attract the approval of Distillers ' shareholders , who were being offered the inflated Guinness shares in part payment for their Distillers holdings . |
| 6 | It is also affected by our own capacity to bear the pain of others ' experience . |
| 7 | Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors ' overall responsibilities . |
| 8 | Adjustment may well be necessary , however , to exclude the element of partners ' salaries from work in progress totals at the end of the financial year . |
| 9 | It fails to provide the infrastructure for mothers ' independence — shelter , childcare and jobs . |
| 10 | However , by the time the CPAG came to give evidence to the Select Committee it had taken on board the idea of women 's financial dependency in marriage and had carried out a survey to discover the extent of mothers ' dependence on family allowance for their own and their children 's survival , irrespective of the level of their husbands ' earnings . |
| 11 | Although my major concern has been to rehabilitate the idea of students ' academic freedom , I have also said sufficient to show that academic freedom can not just be granted by one group or agency towards another . |
| 12 | The 1979 survey by Social and Community Planning Research commissioned by the National Consumer Council for this report adds some more recent information , although its primary purpose has been to explore the background of consumers ' knowledge and attitudes about credit . |
| 13 | Yields in the Swiss capital market for Japanese firms ' bonds are already beginning to reflect the range of issuers ' credit ratings . |
| 14 | In the United Kingdom legislation was introduced in early November to close " loopholes " in immigration law and to streamline the processing of immigrants ' claims in order to reduce a backlog of over 60,000 cases . |
| 15 | But the sparkler failed to put a smile on Anne 's face as she attended a meeting to discuss the construction of horses ' saddles yesterday . |
| 16 | He has introduced training programmes in conjunction with such august management institutions as Ashridge Management College to broaden the scope of partners ' understanding of the outside business world . |
| 17 | An allocation is usually set aside to cover the purchase of readers ' requests ( for older material ) . |
| 18 | Since we were obliged to respect the confidentiality of agencies ' records on clients , we did not collect names or addresses , but instead recorded the initials , date of birth and sex of each case . |
| 19 | Compared with other jurisdictions , little attempt has been made in England and Wales to confine the exercise of sentencers ' discretion by limiting the extent of their powers . |
| 20 | Because it is necessary to record the value of members ' holdings , the vote must be taken by way of a poll . |
| 21 | These are of course the history teacher 's daily stock in trade , often taken for granted but when we are publicly called upon to justify the spending of taxpayers ' money on our subject , the most obvious may well be one of the strongest arguments for the teaching of history to all young people to the age of 16 . |
| 22 | It would , furthermore , be difficult to justify the scale of directors ' remuneration if the recipients did not possess comparatively scarce abilities , and it would , if only for that reason , be surprising if directors were themselves to deny the possession of special skills . |
| 23 | Dromara broke away and Kearney rammed in No.3 followed by No.4 from Roy McVeigh to put the match beyond Shorts ' reach . |
| 24 | Tory politicians are also liable to misread the trade-off in voters ' minds between taxation and spending . |
| 25 | During the year , the Enterprise Centre has worked with other Departments/ Units to pioneer two innovative elective modules , which seek to address the development of students ' enterprise skills in new settings . |
| 26 | The importance that government attach to this link between subject match and teaching quality is further emphasized by their announced intentions to take subject qualifications into account in the selection of student teachers , to consider the relevance of students ' subject qualifications to school subject teaching in their procedures for approving or ‘ accrediting ’ teacher-training courses , and to undertake five-yearly reviews of selected secondary schools to ensure that subject match is being improved within them and being reflected in the pattern of teacher appointments . |
| 27 | 1.72 When automatic directions apply , the court will not now have the opportunity to consider the admissibility of experts ' evidence before the trial . |
| 28 | The figures indicate that the real-wage decline of London 's workers was already marked before the impact of the soaring prices of the French war years ( 1793 – 1815 ) , for there seems every reason to consider the trend of bricklayers ' wages as representative . |
| 29 | The process of language teaching will also be analysed in order to describe the relationship between pupils ' perceptions and the teaching to which they are exposed . |
| 30 | The outcome of this project will be a computer simulation routine usable on standard microcomputers designed to assess the response of consumers ' expenditure and VAT revenue to changes in VAT rates . |