Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
2 | The South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants ' diamond jubilee appeal has received a welcome boost from Olympic gold medal winner Sally Gunnell . |
3 | NORTH ‘ We 've seen an increase in activity but people are reluctant to commit themselves , ’ says Newcastle-based Peter Miller , Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' housing spokesman . |
4 | Labour opposes discrimination against lesbian mothers and has Annual Conference policy in support of lesbian mothers ' custody rights , but this is quite separate from winning elections — which is what matters most . |
5 | How state governments approach the budget deficits now facing them will determine whether the coming year sees a further round of downgrading of public authorities ' credit ratings . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | The CARAT ( Cargo Agents Reservation and Air Waybill issuance and Tracking system ) is now on-line to nearly 100 of British Airways ' freight forwarding customers , enabling them to book shipments and track their cargo all over the world without needing to pick a telephone . |
8 | A wide range of source material will be examined , including the prison and court records of militant suffragettes jailed in Scotland , minute books of Scottish women 's suffrage associations , and newspaper reports , memoirs , and letters of suffragists , suffragettes , and those who opposed women 's suffrage . |
9 | He was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Telford medal in 1885 , and was elected a member in 1886 . |
10 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
11 | PAUL DAWSON , who works in the design office at Capenhurst , was designated a Whitworth Scholar at an award ceremony held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ' London headquarters . |
12 | The chart shows the weakness of Japanese banks ' overall BIS ratios even before the Tokyo market began to fall . |
13 | Last hours of murdered lovers ' lane couple could yield clue . |
14 | Knowsley , the home of national women 's champions Halewood , and Wirral appear to be the teams to watch in this mixed under-11 competition , sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok , but Liverpool are dark horses . |
15 | Recently one bank , Mitsui Taiyo Kobe International , warned it might not satisfy the Bank of International Settlements ' capital requirements . |
16 | Troyna has called the perception of ‘ a shared destiny ’ the critical feature of black kids ' gang formation during late school years . |
17 | I commend the programme of the development of elderly persons ' resource centres in those cities . |
18 | The research will compare the development of Prime Ministers ' press offices in three ‘ Westminster systems'--London , Ottawa and Canberra--and the President 's press office in the White House . |
19 | I am indebted to the College librarian , Linda Warden ( who compiled the index ) and to the library staff for their unfailing help with records and pictures , to Anna John who typed the manuscript , to David Gunn for photography and to Benita Horder , librarian of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ' Wellcome Library for historical material and illustrations . |
20 | Having worked as an agent , I always take care of Dire straits ' concert bookings and I have made that sort of mistake with them . |
21 | The quarter-century of sustained growth , broken only by minor interruptions , provided a favourable climate for the growth of self-help Consumers ' Co-operation operating in a buoyant and free domestic market : Producers ' Co-operation , the self-governing workshop , remained a means of protest against the generally accepted order , an out-of-fashion remnant from the hungry forties . |
22 | And a British teacher I knew used to point out to me the oddness of Chinese children 's drawing styles compared with those of Western children . |
23 | We trust the C E C to campaign vigorously against the Tory Party proposal of increasing women 's pension age to sixty five . |
24 | In addition to its role in imparting particular knowledge and skills , education is often presented as a way of developing children 's thinking skills generally . |
25 | Treating heart attack victims with clot-busting drugs before they reach hospital can reduce deaths by up to 17 per cent , Dr Philip Hannaford , of the Royal College of General Practitioners ' Manchester research unit , told a meeting in Dallas , Texas , yesterday . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The Royal College of General Practitioners ' research unit has designated the virus H3N2 , English Flu , as having reached epidemic proportions , affecting more than 100 people in every 100,000 . |
28 | This was the stark warning given by Professor David Harvey of Newcastle University , when he presented the first in a series of Northern Foods ' milk industry papers . |
29 | The fact that employers were organised by industry had a feedback effect on the structure of manual workers ' trade unions . |
30 | In 1975 the Council agreed to the award of the degree of Master of Education , on condition that it was not taken as a precedent for a variety of other masters ' degree titles . |