Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The government on May 31 introduced legislation to determine the value of political parties ' assets and for the expropriation of the assets of those parties existing on Oct. 7 , 1989 .
2 According to Stephen Howard , the company 's founder and chief executive , Make Systems is the only supplier of network planning software to use device-specific libraries to model the performance of specific vendors ' routers and time division multiplexers .
3 One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach .
4 The Securities and Investments Board has welcomed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' decision that its members should be authorised via membership of the Securities and Futures Authority , rather than the RICS seeking recognition in its own right .
5 He had a marvellous collection of carved whales ' teeth and Ian and I believed every word he said .
6 SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods .
7 It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring .
8 At the end of August an indefinite freeze was placed on the repatriation of foreign companies ' profits and dividends ; however , in September the rules were relaxed to allow transfer of normal profits after 60 days , and in November it was reported that the freeze was to be lifted under pressure from international corporations .
9 It has to be emphasized that , for those who support the Mobilizing Ideal , these authoritarian features of British governments ' attitudes and behaviour towards the media are not defects but virtues .
10 ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’
11 Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell .
12 I was discussing business contracts with my husband and waiting for a call from my own children who would rock with laughter if I prescribed a dose of warm camels ' milk and clove for a poor stomach and headache .
13 A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released .
14 In reporting a national conference in February 1988 , Earley ( 1988 : 64 – 5 ) reported : As for the future of annual governors ' reports and APMs , most participants agreed they provided an opportunity for governors , teachers and parents to work together .
15 Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America .
16 In order to fulfil its declared aim of formulating the rules of human individuals ' behaviour and experience scientifically , psychology needs principally to study individual behaviour , unaffected by social interactions .
17 Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination .
18 The SEGA crew will also organise a host of great kids ' competitions and Pontin 's own children 's hero , Captain Croc , will be on hand .
19 The Ideal Home Decorating School gives you details of exclusive readers ' courses that cover everything from paint effects to dried flowers .
20 He endorsed the aims of contributing to the raising of all pupils ' achievement through and beyond the national curriculum , of improving pupils ' motivation and increasing their participation in education , of preparing pupils better for the transition to further education , training or employment — and , all important in the preparation and review of management plans , of helping schools to consider how well their curriculum , teaching and organization enabled pupils to develop their all-round potential ( DES 1990b ) .
21 Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases .
22 This section describes the growth of self-help parents ' groups and services for parents developed by several voluntary associations .
23 Tourism is also becoming an important component of developing nations ' economy because it is a source of foreign income .
24 These include Griselda Pollock 's essay which redefines ‘ Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity ’ through an analysis of male/female Impressionists ' works and Tamar Garb 's ; analysis of a critical category ‘ L'Art Feminin ’ used to pigeonhole women 's work .
25 Sociolinguistics is most successful in explaining sex differences when it looks very carefully at the conditions of particular communities ' lives and at what the people themselves consider the most important influences on their behaviour .
26 The President of the USSR , as head of state , would be " the guarantor of observance of Soviet citizens ' rights and freedoms and of the USSR Constitution and laws " ; the protector of " the sovereignty of the USSR and union republics and the country 's security and territorial integrity " ; and the supreme representative of the USSR at home and in international relations .
27 Making use of the Department of Modern Languages ' Médiathèque and Language Laboratory facilities .
28 The advantage of this approach is that the analyst 's intuitive notions of " what is going on " in the conversation do not occupy a central role , being replaced instead by an analysis of the talk in terms of other participants ' reactions and responses .
29 The musical analogy suggests that there is no general obligation of that kind ; the responsibility of the teacher lies much more in having an intimate understanding of other academics ' research and in being able to give an interpretation of it .
30 And the number of special schools ' students and pupils , pupils seen , in years ten upwards .
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