Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 2 | Another cut in the ODR will not trigger a corresponding cut in banks ' funding costs . |
| 3 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 4 | Equation ( 6 ) above suggests that they could arise from autoregressive behaviour in investors ' target asset holdings . |
| 5 | The rise in companies ' income gearing has also stabilised . |
| 6 | Another huge rise in publishers ' title output |
| 7 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 8 | Room for a Fifth Man in Scots ' think tank |
| 9 | They are thus of great importance in the management of the economy despite their small total in banks ' balance sheets . |
| 10 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 11 | Business investment remains high , and the latest CBI survey reported a sharp improvement in manufacturers ' investment intentions . |
| 12 | It follows that , other things being equal , the average price level will rise if there is an increase in average wage earnings , an increase in the average cost of imported material inputs , an increase in firms ' profit margins or a decrease in the average productivity of labour . |
| 13 | The percentage increase in firms ' profit margins . |
| 14 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 15 | The authors draw attention to the increase in fundholders ' referral rates to general surgery ( an 8.6% increase ) , but this should surely be interpreted in the light of the 17.0% increase in such referrals by non-fundholders ( table III ) . |
| 16 | But while Ride and TFC took the indie way out of obscurity , gaining success by giggling like hell while maintaining a strong position in Sounds ' indie charts , Five Thirty bit the big one and signed to a major , East West . |
| 17 | But while Ride and TFC took the indie way out of obscurity , gaining success by giggling like hell while maintaining a strong position in Sounds ' indie charts , Five Thirty bit the big one and signed to a major , East West . |