Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the openings in companies ' legal departments are much fewer than in private practice ; and in any case you should not consider articles in commerce or industry unless you are keen to make this your career . |
| 2 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 3 | The direction of subjects ' lateral eye movements has been correlated with EEG alpha activity , consistent left movers showing a relatively greater degree of alpha activity ( Bakan and Svorad , 1969 ) . |
| 4 | In this case , the accounts are addressed to the shareholders and the balance sheet is a statement of shareholders ' financial position while the income statement is the change in shareholders ' financial position . |
| 5 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |
| 6 | This impression of relative prosperity would be even more the case in physicians ' private offices , but these are unevenly distributed and are largely absent from the poorest parts of the city . |
| 7 | Further increases in revenue will also be generated with the rise in employees ' National Insurance contribution rates from 1 April 1994 . |
| 8 | Shearer , still top scorer in the division despite Rovers ' four consecutive league games without a goal , said after Saturday 's 2-0 home defeat by Tottenham : ‘ We are suffering from our good start to the season . |
| 9 | The most radical element of the examinations in science was the assessment of pupils ' practical skills and abilities by internal , school-based means . |
| 10 | The tragedy of clients ' huge losses is that they were sometimes led to believe they would make fortunes on the above stocks within a month or two , maybe within three or four weeks . |
| 11 | Any fluctuations in measured unemployment which may , from time to time , be observed is the result of workers ' fluctuating preferences between work and leisure . |
| 12 | The increased number of pensioners in the top half of the income distribution is the result of pensioners ' average net incomes rising by a third or more in real terms because of the policies of the Government . |
| 13 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 14 | The analysis carried out concentrated mainly on the relationships between undergraduates ' academic performance and their entry qualifications . |
| 15 | The riddles of babies ' first words have yet to be solved . |
| 16 | Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors ' overall responsibilities . |
| 17 | The philosophy and system of pastoral care were spelt out at some length and a few pages were devoted to the issue of pupils ' individual needs . |
| 18 | Curing time nevertheless remains one of the barriers to composites ' mass production , even though , as Lotus 's Albert Adams is quick to point out , what comes out of a steel press is far from being a complete car body . |
| 19 | The foregoing analysis neglects the effects of firms ' other competitive variables such as product quality , product range and product differentiation . |
| 20 | THE EFFECTS ON CARERS ' LIVING STANDARD |
| 21 | Many of the changes of the 1986 and 1988 Acts are new enough for heads to be given the benefit of parents ' earlier trust . |
| 22 | Businessmen meeting at the Institute of Directors ' annual convention this week said they wanted a sustained , long-lasting recovery , rather than a repeat of boom-bust . |
| 23 | These , it was found , rested much of their case an the importance of teachers ' personal qualities , their technical expertise and their specialist subject competence . |
| 24 | Dawe 's research demonstrating the importance of pupils ' first language competence to mathematics , as well as the need for pupils to understand mathematical ideas in English , highlights the importance of both languages for children 's progress . |
| 25 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 26 | Even worse for IBM is the nature of customers ' new affiliations : they are international , not local , subjecting IBM to price comparisons on a global basis . |
| 27 | 5 The difference between teachers ' perceived and actual training needs . |
| 28 | However , rather than serving to dissuade us from finding some base for the notion of students ' academic freedom , the epistemological grounding of the German universities holds some definite clues that are worth pursuing . |
| 29 | As to the conflict between consultants ' ethical and contractual obligations , it is surely the case that because of the vulnerability of patients , and to maintain patients ' trust , doctors must always put ethical considerations first . |
| 30 | Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls . |