Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can expect a change of pace in his new job : whereas he was responsible for 290 students at Goldsmiths ' , the Maastricht programme has eight students per year in a two-year course . |
| 2 | For free copies of Travellers ' Diarrhoea and Avoiding Viral Hepatitis , send an sae to Travellers ' Advice , BDF , 3 , St Andrews Place , London . |
| 3 | The position is the same if the offender is committed for some offences under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 and for some under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 ; the restrictions in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 have no application to the offences subject to committal under section 38 , as the Crown Court can sentence for those offences as if the offender has just been convicted of them on indictment , but do apply to the offences committed under section 56 . |
| 4 | And , in the 67th minute , again after good work by Saints ' forwards , a clever combination of passes between skipper Shane Cooper and scrum-half Jonathan Griffiths put centre Garry Connolly over . |
| 5 | They came , not during committee meetings in Whitehall , but after informal chats at ministers ' houses during the Easter holiday . |
| 6 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 7 | This approach to surgical research is again unacceptable , ignoring as it does much excellent research that is responsible for real improvements in patients ' care . |
| 8 | At the same time , any contractors and their employees are subject , in the same way as Revenue employees , to the criminal sanctions — a fine or imprisonment or both provided by s 182 , Finance Act 1989 for unauthorised disclosure of taxpayers ' personal information . |
| 9 | We then move on , in Chapter 4 , to examine in detail the various arguments put forward about the likely effects of technical change on workers ' experience of their jobs . |
| 10 | Over 1,600 of 2,205 samples of cows ' milk had pesticide residues , including " widespread and excessive " quantities of DDT and HCH ( also known as BHC ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Behind Bars ’ at the new , huge , non-profit Threadwaxing Space on Broadway is not as you might suspect a show of political art about prisoners ' rights or even about the exotic lives of cocktail waitresses but rather about the stripe in art . |
| 12 | These visions would appear , unsummoned , while she sipped cups of strong tea in clients ' bedsitters … |
| 13 | Already , there is talk of a more collective leadership , of possible challenges for office-bearers ' posts , if not for Mr Salmond 's own position . |
| 14 | There are a number of possible explanations for girls ' superior primary school performance . |
| 15 | the economic ties of the old British Empire were tightened during this period and Britain remained at the centre of that group of countries ' trade and finance |
| 16 | " We shall yet talk of this day in ladies ' chambers , " said the Count of Soissons at the Battle of al-Mansurah . |
| 17 | The logical consequence of this view of consumers ' use of advertising is that there is a far greater chance of involving potential customers in the ads for more complex and expensive products . |
| 18 | The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success . |
| 19 | It is not a matter of simple sufferance on parents ' evenings , with their lingering conventions that parents should not be encouraged to ask too many questions . |
| 20 | Following the High Court 's decision today in favour of the Government on the Law Society 's challenge to the introduction of standard fees for magistrates ' courts ' costs the Chairman of the Law Society 's Courts and Legal Services Committee , John Appleby said : |
| 21 | Of immediate concern to the profession was the Lord Chancellor 's introduction of standard fees for magistrates ' court work . |
| 22 | The demands of such actions for lawyers ' services are such that only a large and complex firm can meet them , with corresponding implications for costs , restricting , in turn , the availability of such services to all but the wealthiest . |
| 23 | Around my bath sit biodegradable bottles of organic shampoo from pansies ' brains or the like . |
| 24 | It is not surprising then that areas such as sex education , religious education and the establishment of voluntary schools have proved contentious in view of the centrality of these matters to parents ' own cultural values . |
| 25 | Aside from his Jamaican paintings , this was the year that Minton produced his London Transport poster as well as the lithograph Apple Orchard , Kent for the second of three series of artists ' prints which J. Lyons & Co. commissioned as wall decorations for their tea shops and which were also made available to the public at 15s 9d each . |
| 26 | These three values are the names of three clusters of birds ' sizes . |
| 27 | Yet despite these misgivings in teachers ' minds , the unions offer ( witness the strength of feeling in the ‘ action ’ of 1986–7 ) a channel of expression for the frustration and confusion that they feel . |
| 28 | As might be expected , comment varied widely from workshop to workshop and ranged across issues such as the exact interpretation of the wording of tasks , time allocated to tasks , value of tasks , applicability of generic examples to participants ' own specialities and many others . |
| 29 | ‘ Often at loggerheads with Holyoake , Greening , Hughes and other advocates of the ‘ 'bonus to labour ’ and the development of Co-operative Production by means of independent Societies under producers ' control , he was able to impress his personal philosophy of Co-operation upon the Movement and to win for himself a position of recognised leadership . ’ |
| 30 | For this , five years of full-time study are complemented by two years of practical training in architects ' offices — the first between third and fourth years , and the second after completing the Diploma in Architecture . |