Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the restriction was lifted from the Senior Chief Inspector 's annual report about examining the effect on maintained schools of local authorities ' financial and finance-linked resources , it became a report about national quality . |
| 2 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 3 | Rather , by producing individual or social accounts of disabled individuals ' pathology in society , any economic disadvantage is presented as a byproduct of incapacity or of prejudice . |
| 4 | The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups . |
| 5 | The judge imposed concurrent periods of three years ' imprisonment on Wright and two years on Christou on each of the charges to which they pleaded guilty . |
| 6 | Civil servants sit as non-executive directors on some firms ' boards . |
| 7 | My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions . |
| 8 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , we have been told by counsel that the matter is far from academic , in that justices ' courts are concerned , this being a matter which has exercised justices ' courts on many occasions and on which there are different practices in different justices ' courts . |
| 10 | Further , there are underlying themes that are relevant to the subsequent discussion of possible models for general practitioners ' involvement in purchasing . |
| 11 | Politicians are now making favourable noises about other countries ' experiments with road pricing . |
| 12 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 13 | ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing . |
| 14 | The treaty 's economic goals , Sir Michael told his audience of leading businessmen at Chartered Accountants ' Hall , remained valid , with or without progress towards monetary union , and he hoped that it would not fall apart . |
| 15 | But hit-and-miss targets were increasingly replaced by sophisticated forecasts for individual industries ' markets based on aims for the overall growth of the economy and its division into private consumption , government spending and so forth . |
| 16 | It has to be emphasized that , for those who support the Mobilizing Ideal , these authoritarian features of British governments ' attitudes and behaviour towards the media are not defects but virtues . |
| 17 | Glycaemic control and frequency of hypoglycaemic episodes during two months ' treatment with each insulin . |
| 18 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 19 | ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . ) |
| 20 | But the writers who use world-system theories in empirical studies of particular countries ' economic history include features that draw it closer to regulationist theory : for example , the uncertainty , problems and changes associated with conflicts over international hegemony are often studied . |
| 21 | In front of his own people ( he was born near Vicenza ) , he will wish to erase the unhappy memories of two years ' inactivity caused by serious knee injuries . |
| 22 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
| 23 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |
| 24 | By simplifying the projection to a plane triangle , Desargues found that : The pairs of corresponding sides of two triangles ' perspective from a point meet , respectively , in three points that lie on one straight line . |
| 25 | R.J. Smith " The Running of Covenants in Equitable Leases and Equitable Assignments of Legal Leases ' CLJ ( 1978 ) 98 |
| 26 | Two differing interpretations , both stressing the role in history of class conflict yet both bearing the distinctive hallmarks of each writers ' individual ideological perspective . |
| 27 | It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) . |
| 28 | CANCER — THIS could be one of the most important years in many Cancerians ' lives . |
| 29 | This one-term course is intended for practising UK and overseas teachers with two years ' experience and good English . |
| 30 | International economic and political forces place severe constraints on individual governments ' decision-making , particularly if that nation is economically under-developed . |