Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He simulates the picaresque ingenuousness of the alien , pretending to learn English from the children in order to gain their confidence , and gradually modifying the historical account he gives of himself to meet peoples ' changing conception of him . |
| 2 | The care manager will be given a budget and will be responsible for organising an efficient package of care to meet clients ' individual needs . |
| 3 | A leading disability charity is seeking legal go-ahead to launch two judicial reviews against SSDs which it says have failed to meet clients ' assessed needs . |
| 4 | This experiment used an operant conditioning technique in order to modify subjects ' spontaneous pause patterns while they were telling stories . |
| 5 | In October 1924 the Labour-led coalition of Ramsay MacDonald was defeated in a House of Commons vote over the proposal to prosecute Workers ' Weekly and an election campaign began . |
| 6 | In his report , Bundu noted that the existence in the region of some 40 inter-governmental organizations , including three economic integration groupings ( ECOWAS itself , the West African Monetary Union ( UMOA ) and the West African Economic Community ( CEAO ) — see p. 36991 ) had served to diminish members ' active participation in ECOWAS . |
| 7 | It was Clarkson 's response to the stubbornness of West Indian legislatures over amelioration in the mid-1820s to encourage ladies ' antislavery associations to promote abstention as a superior alternative to the use of force by the government . |
| 8 | I wanted to establish teachers ' genuine and initial views of questioning techniques within the classroom . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 10 | I would like to see contractors ' charging policy completely reviewed , so we can be sure that we are not locked into ‘ historic costing methods ’ that fail to recognise the considerable advances in main and service laying technology . |
| 11 | If a company does wish to use ROI to evaluate managers ' short-term performance and those managers are in a position to influence significant investment decisions , then , where the manager 's short-term performance is stressed at the expense of his investment performance , there is a danger that he will restrict investment to increase his ROI . |
| 12 | This , they said , should accompany the ‘ profound managerial change ’ which must be next on the agenda , somehow to tackle Londoners ' personal and local dissatisfaction with the police . |
| 13 | A Newcastle school aims to open a shop to sell pupils ' bright ideas . |
| 14 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 15 | District health authority contracts fail to cover hospitals ' existing work rate . |
| 16 | These two combines were strong enough to focus filmmakers ' creative and entrepreneurial energies , but not so dominant that they crushed out other centres of initiative . |
| 17 | The ruling effectively voided the British legal notion of the " discretionary " life sentence , under which the Home Office had the power to extend prisoners ' actual terms in gaol , or detain them again after an initial release ( known as " release under licence " ) if they were deemed to be a danger to society . |
| 18 | A WELLY bank to recycle kids ' old boots has been set up in Gloucester by the local council and rubber firm Dunlop . |
| 19 | The briefing will look at how major organisations such as Toshiba UK , Grand Metropolitan and National Westminster Bank develop and implement business strategy , and will consider ways to manage executives ' changing information needs . |
| 20 | George Parris also went close in the dying minutes , but Allen 's effort proved sufficient to keep Hammers ' Anglo-Italian Cup hopes alive . |
| 21 | The Government 's legal reforms are likely to produce a crop of backbench critics , with the Bar Council pressing to amend solicitors ' new rights to handle court cases . |
| 22 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 23 | And through the Company 's Materials Centre at Wilton it has the backing of a large , highly qualified team of scientists and technologisdts working to develop new products and processes and to solve customers ' specific problems . |
| 24 | Stable exchange rates were regarded as absolutely essential to reduce LDCs ' economic management problems and better adjustment mechanisms were required to share the burden of external imbalances between deficit and surplus countries . |
| 25 | Earlier in the month , Ministers of Culture from the then 34 CSCE countries met in Kracow , Poland , and adopted on June 6 a declaration calling for international co-operation to protect members ' cultural heritage . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the Gulf crisis is already exploiting women to satisfy soldiers ' apparent ‘ needs ’ . |
| 27 | Fuelled by an explosion in consumer spending , the leisure industry has expanded to satisfy consumers ' insatiable appetites for leisure goods and services . |
| 28 | These accounts are also used to settle banks ' foreign exchange transactions and to enable them to conduct normal correspondent banking relationships ( see Chapter 3 , Foreign Exchange Market : Correspondent Banks ) . |
| 29 | Personally , I am much encouraged that in response to pressure the Bill was amended to make it flexible enough to accommodate pupils ' special educational needs . |
| 30 | We have also seen the complex procedures whereby under the influence of their stage of life , the economics of boy labour was thought to affect adolescents ' social behaviour , which was usually defined in terms of their personality . |