Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , civil servants may appear in magistrates ' courts as prosecutors without violating this restrictive practice .
2 Moreover , suspicion may grow in agents ' minds during t - 1 that the government may be on the verge of an about turn on employment policy .
3 High motivation can result from members ' perception of the task , and their role in it , as being of importance .
4 The award is then endorsed with the SVQ ‘ hallmark ’ , which will appear on candidates ' certificates as a distinctive feature .
5 The Princess Royal Trust would like as carers ' centre in each major town .
6 Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) .
7 The Education Committee will look in governors ' minutes for evidence of this .
8 The Chief Executive also shall report on clients ' views of the service provided , drawing on an independent annual national survey and results of local office monitoring of customer service .
9 Staff who are overworked and overstressed may react to patients ' demands with anger or violence .
10 He invited the Committee to Pay particular attention to the role of the party group in decision-taking , problems that could arise from councillors ' conflicts of interest , the merits of full-time councillors , and the relationships of officers to councillors and political groups ( Widdicombe 1986:17 ) .
11 If supplementary benefit is an inducement to strike activity , then knowledge of how the system operates and reliance on it as a source of livelihood must enter into workers ' plans before embarking on strikes .
12 When speaking to the council of the Royal College of General Practitioners on 9 May last year he said : ’ We have consistently repeated the principle that the reforms should not cut across GPs ' freedom of referral .
13 This assumption turned out to be correct with regard to teachers ' attitudes towards the efficiency of the scheme , about which teachers in the northern schools are much more positive .
14 Michelle Stanworth provides a pertinent example of this process at work with regard to pupils ' assessment of their own competence .
15 Similarly , professional groups possessing key skills can often rely on employers ' dependence upon them .
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