Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] ' " 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 | In the same week in which the Wall Street Journal editorial appeared , it was announced in Britain that an extensive study of lone parents ' reliance on social security would be carried out after comments from Ministers that the state is having to foot the bill for the so-called dependency culture ( Guardian , 18 January 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 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 | Cobalt blue is a pure blue , lacking the greenish undertone of previous artists ' blues like azurite , Prussian blue and indigo and it is far less expensive than the natural ultramarine , extracted from lapis lazuli , used by artists in earlier centuries . |
| 5 | Third , more technocratic accounts do not regard federalism or decentralization in unitary states either as ideological façades or as a direct reflection of external elites ' organization . |
| 6 | What seems important , however , is that the transition is managed through an informed use of general practitioners ' influence on decisions . |
| 7 | OCTOBER 5 , saw the last commercial flight of United Airlines ' Boeing 727 , N7004U . |
| 8 | Some aspects of the woman-centred interpretation of female psychologists ' place are justified . |
| 9 | His contract is up at the end of the season , and there will be the traditional periodic reports of other clubs ' interest in him . |
| 10 | Although many sons have moved up , the homogeneous character of manual workers ' origins contrasts starkly with the middle class . |
| 11 | However , while the LEA maintained , as was its obligation , a global view of primary schools ' needs , heads and teachers in individual schools were less likely to do so . |
| 12 | They know how to behave properly in it , thereby avoiding danger ( for a contrasted view of Malaysian aboriginals ' attitude to their jungle environment , see Robarchek , this volume ) . |
| 13 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 14 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Stuart Barber , the National Union of Public Employees ' ambulance official for London , said : ‘ The work-to-rule has exposed the chronic staffing problems in the London Ambulance Service where there are over 160 vacancies . ’ |
| 17 | National Union of Public Employees ' senior London officer Chris Humphreys said : ‘ It is essential the inquiry reports quickly and that any additional resources required are available . |
| 18 | At a recent meeting of the North West London Dermatology Audit Group we examined the diagnostic accuracy of general practitioners ' referral letters to one dermatological department in a London teaching hospital . |
| 19 | One obvious way of increasing bankers ' deposits in relation to other assets would be to recall some of the overnight lending to the London discount market . |
| 20 | At the International Association of Culinary Professionals ' conference in the US , Henrietta Green was given a Julia Child Cookbook Award for A Glorious Harvest ( Sedgwood Press ) . |
| 21 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine is to give the opening address at Communicating 2000 , a conference organised on behalf of the International Association of Financial Executives ' Institutes ( IAFEI ) by the Financial Executives Group at the Institute . |
| 22 | The pagination Table ( 6.4 ) gives a rough indication of national dailies ' increase in size ( new type faces and better ink eventually meant more words per page ) . |
| 23 | In particular , the international projection of nationally-headquartered firms ' corporate identity is a vexed issue : Siegel & Gale 's new survey of 50 leading Hungarian companies , for example , found that if all of them believed that a company 's image was important to building sales , most would also rather do business with German 's sharply-etched Volkswagen that with fuzzy French concerns . |
| 24 | Thus there is substantial evidence of general practitioners ' participation in the medical and social care of their patients , especially elderly patients . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When they had got into bed , it was Toby 's custom to read them a chapter or two of a book — the school had a tattered library of elderly boys ' books , most of them left behind by ex-pupils . |
| 27 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 28 | Ashi cursed silently as she crossed the Pavement to the bumper-to-bumper row of parked residents ' vehicles . |
| 29 | The South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants ' diamond jubilee appeal has received a welcome boost from Olympic gold medal winner Sally Gunnell . |
| 30 | The musical analogy suggests that there is no general obligation of that kind ; the responsibility of the teacher lies much more in having an intimate understanding of other academics ' research and in being able to give an interpretation of it . |