Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions . |
| 2 | We 've got all sorts of mixes ' . |
| 3 | THE two branches of the legal profession last night remained split over the abolition of the barristers ' monopoly in the higher courts as the Government published its Courts and Legal Services Bill , overturning centuries of lawyers ' traditions . |
| 4 | Dependency on standardised routines and rough and ready indicators of patients ' needs , such as their level of mobility , is essential ( Proctor 1990 ) . |
| 5 | When in the early days pilgrims gathered to hold the feast at Gilgal , perhaps their celebrations included a procession round the ruined mound of Jericho , where no walls were any longer to be seen above ground , with the blowing of sacred trumpets of rams ' horns , and the solemn carrying of the ark . |
| 6 | It allows a salesperson to offset the strengths of competitors ' products , which may be mentioned by potential buyers , against their weaknesses . |
| 7 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 8 | Microbial air sampling , which is technically difficult and only occasionally useful in establishing the source of outbreaks of legionnaires ' disease , has shown low concentrations of Legionella pneumophila in aerosol : 0.02 colony-forming units per litre of aerosol around a cooling tower and 0.19 colony-forming units per litre of air in shower aerosol . |
| 9 | It is often suggested that ‘ the members ’ as the beneficiaries of directors ' duties means ‘ the present and future members ’ . |
| 10 | The riddles of babies ' first words have yet to be solved . |
| 11 | Respondents were asked to rate their satisfaction with various aspects of lawyers ' services and facilities on a scale of one to five , where ‘ one ’ equates to ‘ not at all satisfied ’ and ‘ five ’ to ‘ very satisfied ’ . |
| 12 | A consideration of the problem of standing and the practical difficulties faced by would-be litigants will be postponed until other aspects of directors ' duties have been examined , and will appear in Chapter 8 . |
| 13 | The appraisal will be time consuming and includes an examination of teaching and the other aspects of teachers ' job such as lesson planning and syllabus development . |
| 14 | Three aspects of teachers ' knowledge will be analysed : i ) knowledge of the subject being taught ; ii ) capacity to represent it in a variety of appropriate ways related to the knowledge and experience of the type of pupils to whom it was taught ; and iii ) knowledge and understanding of the relevant pedagogy . |
| 15 | As many aspects of pupils ' achievement as possible are represented in the profile , in contrast with a test for which a single grade or mark may be awarded . |
| 16 | One of the most impressive aspects of Rangers ' form this season — particularly in Europe — has been their team spirit . |
| 17 | Some aspects of travellers ' lives , of the collective context in which individual problems arise , can be very visible . |
| 18 | Certain aspects of centres ' work may have been less successful than others ( there was a considerable and unproductive stress on making inefficient ‘ cheap ’ material such as bead microscopes ) and some centres like Nsukka , Nairobi , Domasi and Njala were more active than others but the overall record in terms of creation of exciting relevant material based on children 's experience is indeed impressive . |
| 19 | Although a number of Directives were adopted in the 1970s on various aspects of employees ' rights , it is the passage of the Single European Act which has given new impetus to the evolution of EC social policies . |
| 20 | The same wills also list the liturgical objects — crosses , plates , censers , bells , candle-sticks — that furnished these nobles ' chapels , and the reliquaries made of precious metals and precious stones and housing fragments of saints ' bones , hair and beards , or even the names of holy men , which the rich and powerful kept in their treasuries , or even wore around their necks . |
| 21 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 22 | seedpearls of snails ' eggs |
| 23 | Choosing emotionally and socially charged ( ’ generative ’ ) words and pictures of students ' problems , he generated discussion on how to improve their lives . |
| 24 | The Commission accused Macierewicz of " hypocrisy and an attempt to avoid the eventual legal consequences " in claiming that the documents were " informative " rather than lists of collaborators ' names as the Sejm resolution demanded . |
| 25 | The results of these studies were published extensively in catalogues of private and public collections , and in what in French are termed catalogues raisonnés , that is to say complete lists of artists ' works . |
| 26 | The pages that contain dates already past can be divided into sections , such as ‘ favourite recipes ' ; ‘ goals for weight' , ‘ food change , and exercise' ; ‘ lists of rewards ' ; ‘ weight charts ' . |
| 27 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 28 | The most comprehensive international survey of the functions and activities of employers ' associations is Windmüller and Gladstone ( 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Although Clegg identifies the structure and attitudes of employers ' associations and managements as the main , direct influences on the dimensions of bargaining themselves , in fact , the determinants of collective bargaining receive little detailed attention in his work . |
| 30 | Conceptions of pupils ' historical thinking and the training of history teachers |