Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a firm believer in purchasing-power parity as a forecasting tool , I find the Big Mac index significantly more accurate than the myriad of economists ' forecasts that spew forth from the profusion of banking and security-firm literature . |
| 2 | With his clammy hands and his face furrowed at nothing more than the flap of pigeons ' wings or the sight of a meter maid , he seemed to be waiting for it . |
| 3 | It seems to follow that if one wishes to change corporate goals one must look further than the modification of directors ' duties . |
| 4 | In the orchestration of this criticism , and in the curbing of local aristocrats who were quite unrestrained by royal power , no single factor was more important than the veneration of saints ' shrines at a local monastery . |
| 5 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 6 | What many need is to be told that they can achieve something more constructive than a profit from others ' financial predicament . |
| 7 | While some contributions amount to little more than a description of manufacturers ' software , others delve into the concepts and methodologies . |
| 8 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 9 | The transformation of what was little more than a set of lawyers ' chambers to a fully fledged government department is a story worth telling , with portents still to come . |
| 10 | Alex Miller 's team asked no questions of a drastically altered Ibrox side containing more than a smattering of Rangers ' impressive reserve strength . |
| 11 | If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors . |
| 12 | If the presumption of wives ' financial dependence on their husbands is not outdated in the 1980s , equitable treatment of the sexes in tax , pensions , social security and the financial arrangements on divorce may not be achieved by equal treatment . |
| 13 | I would therefore argue that even if the discrepancy between girls ' and boys ' performance at the top levels of achievement in mathematics was entirely due to differences in ability ( which I do not believe , but nevertheless should stay as a possible hypothesis ) , there is a strong case for saying that we should act to try to alter the situation . |
| 14 | That 's because the energy for tenants ' politics has always come from women , and now the emergence of women 's ghettos puts poor women in the frontline with the local state . |
| 15 | Sometimes this is because the length of students ' courses is shorter , sometimes ( because the programmes are included as part of course studies ) there is the opportunity for college librarians to introduce the programmes at an early stage . |
| 16 | After a couple of years ' use the charger 's output may fall slightly . |
| 17 | It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor . |
| 18 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 19 | The fact that there may indeed be real risks attached to opening up and talking from the heart is not in dispute , just as the limitations on teachers ' freedom are very real . |
| 20 | It does n't merely contain such valuable information as the date of Mothers ' Day , the distance from London to Inverness , and how to control the bleeding of a wound . |
| 21 | The growing level of investment prevented a fall in the rate of growth of output despite a tendency in the decade from the mid-fifties for the share of workers ' savings to rise — a development which restrained consumption growth . |
| 22 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 23 | This makes it difficult to tell whether HP and other retail credit , as a part of consumers ' overall spending , is now increasing or declining . |