Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a list of favourite boys ' books compiled by Edward Salmon in 1888 , Kingston came second to Dickens , and Salmon observed , ‘ Mr Kingston is Captain Marryat transformed from a novelist into a juvenile romanticist ’ . |
| 2 | She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care . |
| 3 | Since Bains an increasing amount of chief officers ' time has been devoted to liaison with other departmental heads to formulate corporate strategies . |
| 4 | The ICS is a voluntary organisation of national shipowners ' associations representing more than half of world merchant tonnage . |
| 5 | The high moral principle , to use his own phrase , of mid-Victorian muscular Christianity , may well have seemed to the agnosticism of early twentieth-century scientific certainty an insubstantial basis for the development of Co-operation ; and , as a derivative from the French , from the advocacy by Louis Blanc and Buchez of self-governing Producers ' Associations formed by workmen and operating through ‘ National Workshops ’ , the concept was not only at odds with but alien to that of the British Movement which had come to be dominated by the Consumer Movement . |
| 6 | In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying . |
| 7 | The winner of the last edition of Environmental Issues ' competition to spot where they all are now was Clare Stevens . |
| 8 | What can the United Kingdom do to help , and in what context does President Yeltsin 's pronouncement about some form of United Nations ' supervision offer good news for the future ? |
| 9 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 18th JUNE 1988 |
| 10 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER ‘ 88 |
| 11 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT QUINTIN SCHOOL ON SATURDAY 10th JANUARY 1981 |
| 12 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 10 MARCH 1990 |
| 13 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY ‘ 89 |
| 14 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT ON SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1989 |
| 15 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT ON SATURDAY 20TH APRIL 1991 . |
| 16 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT ON SATURDAY 11 MARCH 1989 |
| 17 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin Kynaston School on Saturday 15th March 1986 |
| 18 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin Kynaston School on Saturday 21st June 1986 |
| 19 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quintin Kynaston School on Saturday — 11th October 1986 |
| 20 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Quinton Kynaston School on Saturday 11th January 1986 |
| 21 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at North Westminster Community School , Penfold Street W2 on Saturday 14th March 1987 |
| 22 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at Saturday 12th March 1988 |
| 23 | Notes of Qualified Teachers ' Day held at on Saturday 20th June 1987 |
| 24 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |
| 25 | On Wednesday , January 23 , activists from the London School of Economics ( LSE ) Abortion Rights Group held a picket outside the Irish Embassy in support of Irish students ' campaign to legalise the provision of abortion information in Ireland . |
| 26 | Our study was retrospective and because the quality of general practitioners ' records varies and most records are destroyed after a patient dies , it was not possible to include such patients in our study . |
| 27 | Although many sons have moved up , the homogeneous character of manual workers ' origins contrasts starkly with the middle class . |
| 28 | Reading or hearing of other pilots ' experiences emphasises how easy it is for even seasoned pilots to make mistakes . |
| 29 | In January 1990 , however , the authorities discontinued the practice of stamping bearers ' passports to show that they were HIV-positive . |
| 30 | The continued reliance throughout on independent directors as the cornerstone of good corporate governance , as the Financial Times notes , is an indication of institutional investors ' reluctance to play a fuller role in the direction of the companies they have shares in . |