Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two non-constituency Council seats were designated for financial services and for sole practitioner representation , and following a resolution at last year 's Annual General Meeting , the Society made an initial pump-priming grant to a newly formed sole practitioners ' group which subsequently achieved Law Society group status . |
| 2 | So far we have reported Afro-Caribbean pupils ' perception of the attitudes held by certain teachers and how this may influence their behaviour . |
| 3 | I will admit that I am a total tube head when it comes to guitar amps , but at the same time sufficiently open-minded to have previously applauded other companies ' efforts in solid state technology . |
| 4 | He was named Ideal Homes ' National Site Manager of the Year in 1990 . |
| 5 | It has wiped Labour Members ' minds clean . |
| 6 | Vijay , who has appeared in movies such as Octopussy and Star Trek IV , owns the largest Asian cable channel in America and has just bought Universal Studios ' music arm . |
| 7 | These groups are called different fishes ' names , such as octopus , eel , cod , shark and salmon . |
| 8 | They were built in what has sometimes been called classical bankers ' style , more akin to London 's Waterloo or Boston South than the Beaux-Arts style . |
| 9 | America 's Securities and Exchange Commission , for example , recently restricted money-market funds ' investments in low-rated commercial paper . |
| 10 | In fact no recent government has reduced local authorities ' statutory duties , only the money to perform them . |
| 11 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | Pam Gilbert 's essay begins by noting the pedagogic metaphor which links " writing " with " voice " , a metaphor which " construes writing practices as personal , individualistic and expressive activities , not as socially learned cultural practices ' ( p. 68 ) . |
| 13 | NEWLY elected National Farmers ' Union vice-president Tony Pexton visited Selborne on Thursday last week during a two-day tour of farms in Hampshire and Sussex . |
| 14 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 15 | On seeking advice regarding the application I was originally informed that it was ‘ merely an extension of the existing ‘ Table Licence ’ to incorporate recently acquired adjacent premises ' . |
| 16 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |