Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] ' [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with a budget of over £1 million , governors should realise that almost all is firmly committed from day one , particularly for the teachers ' and ancillary-staff salaries . |
| 2 | Jimmy Spriggs , senior steward for the engineers ' and electricians ' union , said : ‘ We do n't have any guarantee at all and we want urgent talks with Mr Bleck . ’ |
| 3 | The concordance between the teams ' and the research diagnoses and between these and the AGECAT classification is expressed here in terms of percentage agreement , specificity , sensitivity , and the kappa ( κ ) and Yule statistics . |
| 4 | Differences between the girls ' and boys ' groups were marked chiefly by the extent to which they represented themselves as involved readers . |
| 5 | Indeed , much of the benefit of this type of comparative stylistics is that it foregrounds the discrepancies between the students ' and the original versions , thereby highlighting the peculiar characteristics of the latter . |
| 6 | The indexer has access to schedules that the searcher in general does not have available online or even in printed form ; thus there is likely to be a mismatch between the indexers ' and searchers ' perspectives . |
| 7 | Talks on a merger between the polytechnics ' and the universities ' admissions systems now seem to be in trouble , and many students will be left unsure how to go about applying to the new universities . |
| 8 | They are prepared to rate the parties ' campaigns in the style of drama critics reviewing theatrical performances , at the same time forming separate judgments about the parties ' and leaders ' ability to govern . |
| 9 | There are 15 roads , 12 of which are reserved for painting , while Nos. 1 , 2 and 3 are provided with pits and used for over-hauling the electric light equipment of the coaches ' and ‘ 46 , known as ‘ No. 1 Paint Shop Extension ’ , in which there are 15 lines . |
| 10 | The applicants sought judicial review of the governors ' and the appeal committee 's decisions . |
| 11 | Those most involved also experience most feedback and are more aware of the governors ' and the LEA 's response to the report . |
| 12 | It is the level of the government 's ongoing commitment to honour the recommendations over pay and conditions of the Nurses ' and Midwives ' Pay Review Body ( PRB ) which has so incensed the professions . |
| 13 | The harbour at Wick is fronted with Telford-designed buildings , beautifully proportioned , the little dormitory windows of the west coast herring lassies high above the larger windows of the managers ' and traders ' rooms , warehouses and storerooms below . |
| 14 | For one thing , the Club minutes are missing from 1911 to 1920 , along with most of the Artisans ' records and those of the bondholders ' and all the sub-committees ! |
| 15 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 16 | Among local people who remember the young Tippett organising a performance of The Beggars ' and Robin , an opera he wrote himself , is great grandmother Mrs Madge Tansley , who lives in New Skelton . |
| 17 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 18 | The plaintiffs contended that they had thereby been deprived of the opportunity to bid for H.F. Co. but pill J. rejected their claim because while the law certainly allowed a freedom to bid for property that was neither a ‘ business asset ’ of the plaintiffs ' nor a legal right which the law would protect . |
| 19 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |
| 20 | To test whether each of the participants ' before and after scores were simply a fluke occurrence , as distinct from a genuine increase in alcohol knowledge , a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test was undertaken using SPSS and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z= - 10. 1839 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 . |
| 21 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 22 | What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . |
| 23 | It is now suggested that it is much more appropriate to see child abuse as a result of multiple interacting factors , including the parents ' and children 's psychological traits , the family 's place in the larger social and economic structure , and the balance of external supports and stresses , both interpersonal and material . |
| 24 | After Imran Khan was ruled our of the tour because of his shoulder injury , Miandad was the obvious choice , and a popular one too from the players ' and selectors ' points of view . |
| 25 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 26 | And I reach out personally from the patients ' and the public 's point of view , to the people out there , that sit in their ivory towers in the homes , and say , they can not do this to our hospitals . |
| 27 | Technical quality and the use of the right exposure coupled with careful composition were all considered in the beginners ' and intermediate sections of the colour slides . |
| 28 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 29 | Signs appeared on the hot-air hand-driers in the ladies ' and gents ' : ‘ If you missed Sir Gordon 's speech to staff and wish to hear a recorded version , press this button … ‘ |
| 30 | Mountain Crash , stable-companion of Carl 's Choice , held off the Daily Telegraph Trophy holder , Fort Hall , with reasonable comfort in the Ladies ' and Richard Hunt gained more admirers when following up his Higham win by catching Manor Mieo on the line in the Intermediate . |