Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match was reminiscent of the problems of schools ' football — the big school with 11 good players will always beat the village school which has only six or seven . |
| 2 | It was believed that the inclusion in the plan of provisions for the use of foreign loans and for a more liberal market policy was the source of the Council of Guardians ' complaint [ see also p. 37333 ] . |
| 3 | Inspection of a copy of the syllabus for Salters ' A-level chemistry ( obtainable from the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board ) will demonstrate how appropriate the course is as preparation for a chemistry degree . |
| 4 | Commenting on the findings of the survey , John Harper , head of the Institute of Directors ' Centre for Director Development , said : |
| 5 | They pointed out that the information provided by such an analysis of the components of shareholders ' funds did not seem to be useful and was difficult to interpret . |
| 6 | These issues came to a head with the appointment of the Committee on Ministers ' Powers in 1929 . |
| 7 | [ F ] ew reports have assembled so much wisdom whilst proving so completely useless , as the Report of the Committee on Ministers ' Powers … |
| 8 | He will also meet representatives of the Committee for Churches ' Participation in Development . |
| 9 | The research seeks to identify both the understanding of the nature of history which PGCE students bring to the institutions , and the extent to which institutions consider the structure of the subject and link it with a theory of the development of pupils ' thinking in history and the styles of teaching best suited to further such development . |
| 10 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 11 | For criminal law practitioners , good practice standards were published in January in the Magistrates ' Court Guide , a praised new publication which gives practical advice on every aspect of the preparation of magistrates ' court cases . |
| 12 | Much of the work of consumers ' organisations is responsive . |
| 13 | However , it can surely do no harm to apply these methods to code switching data , as long as the analyst is aware of the boundary between participants ' own interpretations — as warranted by " displays " within the talk — and the analysts ' intuitive interpretations . |
| 14 | I commend the Government 's handling of the pay review body and their general approach of marrying this policy , which will lead to higher pay for teachers , with a determined critique of the elements of teachers ' performance which need to be discussed and openly and rigorously criticised . |
| 15 | He insisted on the principle of the –subordination of characters ' — some characters were more fundamental than others and should be given pride of place in assessing degrees of relationship . |
| 16 | His sometimes enigmatic expression and behaviour were likened to that of the sphinx in cartoonists ' caricatures . |
| 17 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 18 | Part of the culture of miners ' militancy draws on the religious motifs that moulded working-class ideology — the more you suffer the more you deserve . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The office bearers of the Federation of Publishers ' & Booksellers ' Association in India for 1992/93 are : president — A Machwe ( Wiley Eastern ) ; vice-presidents — Mazharul Ishlam ( Publishers ' & Booksellers ' Association of Bengal ) ; B R Chawla ( Heritage Publishers ) ; R Seshadri ( The Booksellers & Publishers Association of South India ) ; Chandra Pal Gupta ( Bombay Booksellers & Publishers Association ) ; secretary — S C Sethi ( Jaico Publishing House ) ; treasurer — Inderjeet Singh ( Panima Educational Book Agency ) . |
| 21 | Recent pictures on television showing young Kiwi enthusiasts pestering Test cricketers for their autographs as they left the field of play — and this actually during a Test match ! — have led me to ruminate on the lasting attraction of the pursuit of cricketers ' signatures . |
| 22 | Several respondents to FRED 1 , in commenting on the statement of total recognised gains and losses , suggested that it should be extended to provide a complete reconciliation of the movements in shareholders ' funds . |
| 23 | But the CGT technicians ' section came out in support of the students for workers ' control . |
| 24 | Particular attention will be paid to the impact of the reforms on teachers ' classroom goals . |
| 25 | [ That this House calls for publication of the Register of Members ' |
| 26 | The motion calls for the publication of the Register of Members ' |
| 27 | From this time onwards and for ever , the jealous love of the Lord of hosts ' will be known in this child . |
| 28 | This is defined as the average for each period ( during which the optimisation takes places ) of the sum of wives ' net earnings ( where received ) , other state benefits such as Child Benefits , rent and rate rebates , Family Income Supplement , free school meals and milk , and other private sector income ( receipts such as from lodgers , occupational pensions , and insurance schemes ) . |
| 29 | Research into the progress of bilingual pupils has demonstrated that support for , and recognition of the value of pupils ' first languages are crucial for achievement . |
| 30 | The EC Peace Conference on Yugoslavia reconvened on Jan. 9 in Brussels , facing the issues of the recognition of republics ' independence [ see above ] and the implementation of the UN peacekeeping plan . |