Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewed on the radio on Nov. 2 , Demirel criticized support given by Democratic Left Party ( DSP ) leader Bulent Ecevit to proposals for the creation of a Turkish-controlled buffer zone in northern Iraq in order to allow the activities of Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrillas to be supressed . |
| 2 | So in spite of Reaganite sneers and the activities of hostile employers ' organisations such as the Equal Employment Advisory Committee , progress for North American women and minority people is being made . |
| 3 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 4 | This transformation was usually accompanied by the enlargement of the area of jurisdiction of the kadilik through the addition of other districts in the vicinity : Konya , for example , was made a mevleviyet in 977/1569 " with the addition of certain sub-districts ' and the appointee later moved on to Maras , the kadilik of which was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Elbistan ; and Selanik , as mentioned above , was made a mevleviyet with the addition of Sidrekapsi . |
| 5 | The chart shows the weakness of Japanese banks ' overall BIS ratios even before the Tokyo market began to fall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Greer , for instance , aims to produce change by ‘ bending and selecting ’ the meanings of male psychologists ' words : ‘ What else can they be for ? |
| 8 | A rights issue has the advantage of preserving shareholders ' pre-emption rights in respect of a new issue of the offeror 's shares , whereas this is not possible with a cash underwritten alternative unless accompanied by an open offer and clawback ( see below ) . |
| 9 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 10 | Peter Vallone , who heads the 50 Democrats ( out of 51 members ) on the city council , regrets that so few New Yorkers appear to appreciate the significance of a change in City Hall 's procedures since 1989 : committees of the council , says Mr Vallone , have brought new muscle to bear in the monitoring of mayoral agencies ' budgets . |
| 11 | In order to fulfil its declared aim of formulating the rules of human individuals ' behaviour and experience scientifically , psychology needs principally to study individual behaviour , unaffected by social interactions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Our report was based on the Association of American Publishers ' Newsletter , which in a recent issue reported as follows : |
| 14 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 15 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 16 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 17 | In reporting a national conference in February 1988 , Earley ( 1988 : 64 – 5 ) reported : As for the future of annual governors ' reports and APMs , most participants agreed they provided an opportunity for governors , teachers and parents to work together . |
| 18 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
| 19 | Making use of the Department of Modern Languages ' Médiathèque and Language Laboratory facilities . |
| 20 | SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods . |
| 21 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 22 | He was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Telford medal in 1885 , and was elected a member in 1886 . |
| 23 | Under the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Conditions of Contract ( fifth edition ) , retention money is repaid to a contractor in two stages , the first within 14 days after the certificate of completion has been issued , the remainder within 14 days after the end of the period of maintenance . |
| 24 | The workshop was part of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ' ( MechE ) first year of Tribology Action , a campaign to create awareness and to stimulate action in the area of lubrication and wear . |
| 25 | PAUL DAWSON , who works in the design office at Capenhurst , was designated a Whitworth Scholar at an award ceremony held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ' London headquarters . |
| 26 | In January 1990 , however , the authorities discontinued the practice of stamping bearers ' passports to show that they were HIV-positive . |
| 27 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 28 | This could have the effect of improving girls ' spatial visualisation skills — and may also , directly or indirectly , favourably affect their learning of mathematics . |
| 29 | The meeting denounced the contradictions of rich countries ' policies which " took with one hand — by protectionism — what they gave with the other — development aid " , while an OECD divisional head noted that " the question of migration relates directly to the need for a different co-operation and development policy and for trade liberalization " . |
| 30 | The Soviet military responded to the demand by noting that troops could not leave before the completion of Soviet forces ' withdrawal from Eastern Europe , partly because of the difficulties involved in rehousing troops . |