Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
2 | The Federation of British Aquarists ' Societies will forward a list of affiliated clubs on request . |
3 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
4 | Both of these companies ' products should be available through any good tackle dealer . |
5 | Some of these rats ' calls may be heard by dogs , which can detect frequencies up to 40 000 hertz , while that expert mouser , the cat , can hear sounds as high as 70 000 hertz . |
6 | Basically , however , secure tenants of three years ' standing can buy their houses at discounts ranging from 33 per cent of market price to a maximum of 50 per cent . |
7 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
8 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
9 | In return , Central Bank governor Jose Cuisia agreed that US$344 million of other banks ' loans would be eligible for bond conversion , while securing the right of the Philippines to take action against any bank later found to have been involved in fraudulent transactions . |
10 | Unless cash ratios were imposed on every single financial institution , the control of certain institutions ' lending would merely shift business to other uncontrolled institutions . |
11 | The rapid recording or repetition of the circumstances of longitudinal experiments in science meant that in a day and a night , without any intervention from a pupil or a teacher , the replication of two terms ' work could be completed . |
12 | Samples of both victims ' blood would be taken from the bodies at the post-mortem , but it would be three days at least before he could expect to get the result of the analysis . |
13 | In this decorators ' dreamland may be found marble columns , ornamental birds , chimney pieces , lecterns , windows and plaster busts . |
14 | And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history . |
15 | If anyone from 10,000 Maniacs ' hierarchy can tell me , please do . |
16 | If anyone from 10,000 Maniacs ' hierarchy can tell me , please do . |
17 | My goal in five years ' time would be |
18 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
19 | Immediately after issue the amount attributable to an instrument within non-equity shareholders ' funds should be the net proceeds of the issue . |
20 | It was prompted by nationwide dismay at an announcement that 31 out of 50 pits still operating in the UK were to close and up to 30,000 miners ' jobs would be lost . |
21 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
22 | First on most reformers ' lists would come the financial situation , with specific benefits for prisoners ' wives . |
23 | Variations between local areas ' needs can be measured and compensated for in national grants . |