Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine is to give the opening address at Communicating 2000 , a conference organised on behalf of the International Association of Financial Executives ' Institutes ( IAFEI ) by the Financial Executives Group at the Institute . |
| 2 | At the International Association of Culinary Professionals ' conference in the US , Henrietta Green was given a Julia Child Cookbook Award for A Glorious Harvest ( Sedgwood Press ) . |
| 3 | Our report was based on the Association of American Publishers ' Newsletter , which in a recent issue reported as follows : |
| 4 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 5 | The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money . |
| 6 | During the Depression years mothers often called at the better-off houses in the neighbourhood to try and find places for their daughters and one woman recalled employing a succession of unemployed miners ' daughters to whom she paid 5/ a week . |
| 7 | There also arrived a strong deputation from the DHSS : the Minister of State , now of much greater fame , Dr David Owen ; the Permanent Under-Secretary , Sir Patrick Nairne , and Barbara 's most trusted right-hand man , a beardless youth , then recently the president of some students ' association , named Jack Straw , with whom I had occasion to cross swords later . |
| 8 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 9 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 10 | She heard mention of six months ' imprisonment , and was terrified that she 'd be locked up for doing nothing . |
| 11 | The foreman had naturally hit the roof over the loss of thirty minutes ' production , which would pull down his departmental output and efficiency target and had roundly reprimanded the shop steward for taking such unauthorised action without first bringing the alleged safety hazard to his attention , in line with normal company standard practice . |
| 12 | This report was the result of four months ' research , including material relating to Britain , Belgium , South Africa , Canada and the US , and noted that the IDA 's and the IIRS 's ‘ complacent attitude ’ towards asbestos was not shared by many eminent bodies throughout the world and that there was movement towards the phasing out of asbestos . |
| 13 | ‘ Fields of Vision — Dreams of View ’ — Dawson 's first exhibition dedicated to personal creative work and the result of two years ' work in collage — is showing at Smiths ' Gallery 3 in Covent Garden from 17–22 February . |
| 14 | The walk-in centre is the result of two years ' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal . |
| 15 | Called PRC 565 , it is a new generation product and the result of two years ' development involving American and British scientists . |
| 16 | Not all the Le Monde journalists support the change , which is the result of two years ' market research and several dummy editions . |
| 17 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 18 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
| 19 | In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying . |
| 20 | The second main study of industrial workers ' attitudes was carried out by Brown and Levin in the early 1970s , with a national sample of over 2,000 weekly-paid workers . |
| 21 | In the same week in which the Wall Street Journal editorial appeared , it was announced in Britain that an extensive study of lone parents ' reliance on social security would be carried out after comments from Ministers that the state is having to foot the bill for the so-called dependency culture ( Guardian , 18 January 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 22 | Magnum/Mayall/Nelson 's ( 1985 ) study of American employers ' use of temporary workers used the same " on-off " break in conducting its analysis . |
| 23 | As an example Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) quote the fact that with a westerly gale of twelve hours ' duration in the Atlantic the size of the waves reaching Cornwall would be limited by the time and not by the fetch , i.e. the distance between Cornwall and America . |
| 24 | My name is Mr , I am an ordinary shareholder of some years ' standing . |
| 25 | In reporting a national conference in February 1988 , Earley ( 1988 : 64 – 5 ) reported : As for the future of annual governors ' reports and APMs , most participants agreed they provided an opportunity for governors , teachers and parents to work together . |
| 26 | Haughey 's resignation came after the speaker of the Senate and former Justice Minister , Sean Doherty , revealed that Haughey had been fully informed of the tapping of two journalists ' telephones by police in 1982 in an effort to trace Cabinet leaks . |
| 27 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 28 | The continued reliance throughout on independent directors as the cornerstone of good corporate governance , as the Financial Times notes , is an indication of institutional investors ' reluctance to play a fuller role in the direction of the companies they have shares in . |
| 29 | The pagination Table ( 6.4 ) gives a rough indication of national dailies ' increase in size ( new type faces and better ink eventually meant more words per page ) . |
| 30 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |