Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | Price notes that one potent expression of this transformation was the physical change that took place in bakers ' shops . |
| 32 | Such a code would be concerned with a commonsense size of user party , but it might equally address issues such as litter removal ( incl. bags of salt and empty whisky bottles ) , defaecating against outside walls and the drawing of genitalia in visitors ' books . |
| 33 | This involves a difference in teachers ' perception of themselves and of other professionals . |
| 34 | It also highlights significant regional variations , possibly reflecting a marked difference in schools ' approach to discipline . |
| 35 | A headhunter needs to be an excellent listener , receptive , willing and able to see the difference in peoples ' backgrounds and how those people might fit into a very different environment . |
| 36 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 37 | Having just lost out to Alan Alda in 1966 for the forthcoming Broadway comedy The Apple Tree , directed by Mike Nichols , but nonetheless now confirmed as a top off-Broadway character actor , Dustin landed the lead in Livings ' Eh ? , which had had a great success at the Aldwych Theatre , London , in Peter Hall 's Royal Shakespeare Company production exactly two years previously . |
| 38 | Our next move was to co-operate with anglers by meeting the National Federation of Anglers and taking a joint initiative to remove the use of lead in anglers ' tackle . |
| 39 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 40 | M0 includes notes and coins held by the public plus cash in banks ' tills plus banks ' operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 41 | And more broadly still , dealing with pupils with ‘ special educational needs ’ in the ordinary classroom ; doing one 's best to combat racism and sexism in pupils ' attitudes ; taking account of personal and social education in one 's teaching style ; paying attention to the deliberate coaching of study skills ; providing worthwhile vocational courses for the greatly increased cohort of non-academic pupils who stay on at school beyond the age of sixteen . |
| 42 | Perhaps ironically , one important factor preventing precision and continuity in princes ' demands of their castellans was the intervention of other princes . |
| 43 | This wastes space , but the user will not be able to avoid such a shortcoming in manufacturers ' software by any other technique . |
| 44 | ‘ Prevention ’ is recast in terms of preventing harm , preventing offending and preventing the need for compulsory intervention in families ' lives through court orders : but no longer as preventing children being ‘ looked after ’ on their parents ' behalf . |
| 45 | There is an analogy between teachers ' in-service development and the mounting evidence that intervention in pupils ' careers which take place away from their school have limited value for either pupil rehabilitation or for changes in school ethos ( Topping 1983 ) . |
| 46 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 47 | symbol of judicial authority displayed in the Admiralty Court in Doctors ' Commons . |
| 48 | " We shall yet talk of this day in ladies ' chambers , " said the Count of Soissons at the Battle of al-Mansurah . |
| 49 | A central feature of the proposals for a European company law has been the desire to encourage worker participation since the Commission believes this to be an important factor in firms ' economic success . |
| 50 | It was made with a slit for the blade to pass , like the slits at the back in angels ' tunics for their wings , and was changed according to the seasons ' calendar . |
| 51 | Equation ( 6 ) above suggests that they could arise from autoregressive behaviour in investors ' target asset holdings . |
| 52 | It is right to observe that , until the decision of Hoffmann J. , the interpretation and application of the Torfaen case was causing great problems in numerous prosecutions for Sunday trading in magistrates ' courts and Crown Courts up and down the country . |
| 53 | Both areas experienced a 50 per cent reduction in illegal parking in residents ' bays . |
| 54 | FORENSIC scientists are using techniques originally developed to catch arsonists to detect traces of glue in sniffers ' blood . |
| 55 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 56 | They were nurtured by Qaddafi 's rhetoric of individual autonomy ; they survived and became sources of inspiration in Libyans ' conflicts with their state . |
| 57 | We show that the variety of the types together with the noise prevents a large jump in agents ' strategies from complete ignorance to complete knowledge . |
| 58 | But there remains a wealth of untapped experience and knowledge in employees ' informal job-controls and patterns of organization . |
| 59 | The maximum fine in magistrates ' courts will be increased from £400 to £1,000 . |
| 60 | The crime to which some addicts resort to finance their habits , and in which the suppliers of illegal drugs habitually engage , exacts its price in victims ' lives , not just money . |