Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1936 the Ministry of Labour carried out a pioneer survey of private sector employers ' pension scheme membership , finding that women comprised about 20 per cent of the total membership of around 1.6 million persons . |
| 2 | The Federation of European Chemical Societies ' conference Chemistry for the protection of the environment will be held in Budapest , Hungary on 10–14 May 1992 . |
| 3 | In this project , age-relations are examined in the context of an urban , middleclass church community and a number of working class pensioners ' clubs . |
| 4 | In the particular case of public sector firms ' management constraints/rewards , it is fairly clear that there is room for improvement . |
| 5 | One union leader estimated last night that the measure would take more than £2 billion out of public sector workers ' pockets , would worsen the recession and cost even more jobs . |
| 6 | Well firstly I do n't like the tree the leaf and I honestly think that it should be place as a permanent position in the foyer of County Hall as a permanent reminder to all councillors on the waste of public tax payers ' money . |
| 7 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' education committee opted not to continue the support it gave when the Government withdrew funding for Scotland 's only adult residential college in 1988 . |
| 8 | Until such time as the Secretary of State agrees to such a Commission , the Council agrees to support the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' call for a policy of non-co-operation between the Authority and The Scottish Office over the question of local government reorganisation . |
| 9 | David Owen , Chief Constable of North Wales , who also heads a senior crime committee , told the Association of Chief Police Officers ' conference in Lancashire yesterday that there was genuine concern about the use of crack . |
| 10 | The figures were released by Wiltshire chief constable Walter Girven , chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers ' traffic committee . |
| 11 | Having established myself in a job I again became active in boys ' work and took charge of additional Tuxis Boys ' groups in company with Lincoln Lovett , Chief Clerk at the Land Titles Office . |
| 12 | The building itself , set behind the facades of typical Amsterdam merchants ' houses , has an impressive 7 storeyed atrium with a Japanese ‘ garden terrace ’ and waterfall . |
| 13 | From 1 January next year VAT practitioners will be able to acquire their own specialist qualification , following the Institute of Indirect Tax Practitioners ' decision to introduce examinations from 1 January next year as a condition of membership . |
| 14 | Although we need earholes to let in air-borne sounds , water-borne vibrations pass easily through the tissues of these sea mammals ' heads to reach their ears . |
| 15 | For the journalists , resentment at the move to Wapping and the slaughtering of 5,500 print workers ' jobs was combined with bitterness at Murdoch 's destruction of the papers ' esprit de corps and journalistic standards . |
| 16 | Basically , it was a late surviving example of 19th century employers ' attitudes towards their staff : checking up on them all the time or they 'd have their hands in the till , It was straight out of H.G. Wells ' Mr Kipps . |
| 17 | It will argue that because of the nature of primary school teachers ' role they have quite specific training requirements and that the current climate of change may well be catalytic . |
| 18 | The team aims to provide an educational training package based on the syllabus used for the Institution of Environmental Health Officers ' course . |
| 19 | Hence , despite the brave attempts of many farm workers ' leaders since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs , the farm worker has little history beyond poverty , dependence and remorseless labour . |
| 20 | In a open letter to de Klerk and his Cabinet , the ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela threatened to break off talks on a post-apartheid constitution unless the government agreed to ( i ) legislation during the current parliamentary session to ban the carrying of weapons in public ; ( ii ) the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok , the Law and Order Minister , and of Gen. Magnus Malan , the Defence Minister ; ( iii ) the removal of military and police officers responsible for covert operations ; ( iv ) the public dismantling of all special counterinsurgency units ; ( v ) the suspension of police officers implicated in the killing of black demonstrators ; ( vi ) the closure of single-sex migrant workers ' hostels ; and ( vii ) an independent commission of inquiry to examine all allegations of misconduct by the security forces . |
| 21 | From now until December SunSoft will bundle a copy of Fifth Generation Systems ' FastBack Plus back up program with Interactive 4.0 free of charge . |
| 22 | A row of eighteenth-century baroque merchants ' houses was interrupted half-way along by a steel and concrete structure . |
| 23 | Labour 's spokesperson for community care , Jeff Rooker , recently produced a survey of electoral registration officers ' efforts to establish voting rights for housebound people and those in residential homes . |
| 24 | Other problems of intercontinental telephone systems ' compatibility held the fax system back as well : in the 1970s it was still illegal to transmit fax signals overseas from the US via the public telephone system . |
| 25 | It provided for court confiscation of convicted drug dealers ' assets , and the granting of authority for telephone tapping and surveillance of and access to computer systems of suspected drug criminals . |
| 26 | They are intended to ensure that increased levels of interaction amongst Network members do not result in friction or embarrassment amongst Network members or the extensive use of other Network members ' resources on an unprofitable basis . |
| 27 | When you arrive at the hotel your name goes to the bottom of a list of other fishing guests ' names , displayed on a blackboard . |
| 28 | The response by headmistresses of middle class girls ' schools parallelled nineteenth-century divisions over the appropriate curriculum for girls . |
| 29 | There was speculation in December that the government was contemplating re-opening a dialogue with the Basque armed movement ETA after the Interior Ministry released to the press transcripts of two ETA prisoners ' conversations in which they condemned the use of violence . |
| 30 | In the Late Period the vast catacombs for the burial of mummified ibises had been constructed in an area of Third Dynasty officials ' mastaba tombs , to the north of the Step Pyramid of Djoser . |