Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of shareholders ' funds attributable to equity interests is the difference between total shareholders ' funds and the total amount attributable to non-equity interests . |
| 2 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 3 | The whips agree to give a certain amount of time for private members ' bills and private members ' motions , but they then encourage all their own backbenchers to ballot for these opportunities . |
| 4 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 5 | After 2 days ' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary . |
| 6 | The first College certificate was granted on 22 April 1794 to Edmund Bond , after 18 months ' instruction while a resident pupil . |
| 7 | Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary . |
| 8 | DI Russell was too amicable to take offence and , after ten minutes ' conversation and a drink , the three slipped into the easy amity of fellow professionals , exchanging grumbles and gossip . |
| 9 | With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority . |
| 10 | These one-year degrees are awarded on the basis of written examination after nine months ' coursework and the submission and examination of a dissertation . |
| 11 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 12 | Elation returned after 27 months ' drought when he won his first ranking tournament at the Mercantile Credit in Bournemouth last January . |
| 13 | Under the social security reforms , announced on Sept. 6 , various separate pension funds including two virtually bankrupt state funds were to be merged into the heavily indebted state welfare organization IKA ; the retirement age was to be raised in 1998 to 58 for women and to 60 for men ( women being currently eligible for a pension after 15 years ' work and men after 25 years ) . |
| 14 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 15 | She visited her rural community after two years ' absence and was impressed by the degree of collective organization and determination shown by her community . |
| 16 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 17 | A pensioner , Mr Kenneth Sanders , aged 66 , of Derby , has died in hospital after contracting legionnaires ' disease while on holiday in Majorca . |
| 18 | Before World War II and in the immediate post-war period industry-wide collective agreements continued to be negotiated between individual employers ' associations and trade unions with little intervention from their respective central organisations . |
| 19 | This agreement grew out of a proposal put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev as a compromise between the demands for individual states ' armies and unified CIS conventional forces . |
| 20 | The government on May 31 introduced legislation to determine the value of political parties ' assets and for the expropriation of the assets of those parties existing on Oct. 7 , 1989 . |
| 21 | There is the potential for several wards to share ideas and to develop broader understanding of each others ' specialisms and problems while building valuable resources in the form of teaching aids and expertise . |
| 22 | A by-product of the computer revolution has been an increased understanding by scientists and humanists of each others ' methods and preoccupations . |
| 23 | According to Stephen Howard , the company 's founder and chief executive , Make Systems is the only supplier of network planning software to use device-specific libraries to model the performance of specific vendors ' routers and time division multiplexers . |
| 24 | One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach . |
| 25 | The Securities and Investments Board has welcomed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' decision that its members should be authorised via membership of the Securities and Futures Authority , rather than the RICS seeking recognition in its own right . |
| 26 | He had a marvellous collection of carved whales ' teeth and Ian and I believed every word he said . |
| 27 | SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods . |
| 28 | Yet judging from the book , the case material lacks an essential element of realism , in spite of 30 years ' development and three editions . |
| 29 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 30 | At the end of August an indefinite freeze was placed on the repatriation of foreign companies ' profits and dividends ; however , in September the rules were relaxed to allow transfer of normal profits after 60 days , and in November it was reported that the freeze was to be lifted under pressure from international corporations . |