Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part , this is to prevent former high-ranking IRS and Treasury Department officials handling foreign firms ' transfer pricing cases . |
| 2 | Nothing for us knocking each others ' doors at nights about midnight coming for a swim and we 'd all go down . |
| 3 | The most sumptuous of all the decorations was undoubtedly a huge Chinese Ming-dynasty celadon porcelain vase embellished with elaborate and highly wrought ormolu mounts incorporating ring-toothed lions ' heads of around 1760 . |
| 4 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 5 | However , the question of housing does require more extended treatment , both for its centrality as a material resource in the pattern of life chances of black people and for its possible role in understanding black pupils ' achievements in British schools . |
| 6 | Understanding international competitors ' behaviour may depend crucially on understanding the way they finance their business . |
| 7 | For more than a decade , Sellafield has been Western Europe 's biggest industrial construction site , employing 5,000 contractors ' employees in addition to its own staff of around 7,000 . |
| 8 | When they start runnin' those muvvers ' meetin 's they put a lot o' nonsense in people 's 'eads . |
| 9 | ‘ Optioning ’ , they call it ; nicking best-selling authors ' plot-lines we call it , but increasingly novels have formed the bedrock of Hollywood 's biggest grossing films . |
| 10 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 11 | For instance , home owners are challenging local authorities ' proposed new contracts on the grounds that their terms are unfair . |
| 12 | Medium sized firms would thus have difficulty keeping institutional investors ' business . |
| 13 | Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday . |
| 14 | But in the meantime we will work on company averages for you , until you 've started building six months ' data . |
| 15 | However , it continues , GPs can not interpret the provisions for extra-contractual referrals as a licence to disregard the contract arrangements since DHAs are accountable for expenditures and ‘ can not therefore be put in the position of being a mere cypher and reflecting individual GPs ' wishes regardless of their effect on other patient services ’ . |
| 16 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 17 | The other was that in defining individual teachers ' roles , schools were asked to recognize the importance of job-satisfaction . |
| 18 | She also uses signs expressing future intentions ' ( 1979 : 94 ) . |
| 19 | This is assisted not only by meeting domestic customers ' overseas needs but also by establishing banking relationships with indigenous customers in various financial centres . |
| 20 | To the politicians the increase in the ratio means they are getting better value for money , greater efficiency — each student educated is costing fewer taxpayers ' pounds . |
| 21 | They saw the school as condoning these teachers ' attitudes . |
| 22 | This lifted investors ' spirits immensely , as well as filling well-informed politicians ' campaign coffers . |
| 23 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 24 | She accuses Kingsley of mingling other travellers ' experiences with her own and writing of what she had never seen . |
| 25 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 26 | Gone are the roving gangs of party militants who would sneak round in the dead of night replacing other parties ' posters with their own and often clashing violently with rival gangs . |
| 27 | A 21-year-old Liverpool man serving seven years ' detention for robbing women working in two Southampton shops was refused leave by the Criminal Appeal Court in London to appeal against his conviction and sentence . |
| 28 | Doctors from ethnic minorities predominate in at least two of our chosen specialties ( psychiatry and geriatric medicine ) — reflecting these specialties ' comparative unpopularity — and the proportion of such doctors is much greater in district general hospitals than in teaching hospitals . |
| 29 | Thus , if the total award is large enough ( say , reflecting three years ' employment and loss of salary and contract benefits for that length of time ) , an ex gratia payment will not reduce your former employer 's legal liability towards you at all . |
| 30 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |