Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betting shops deduct ten per cent from punters ' winnings — a whopping two per cent over the odds which puts a £10million perk in bookies ' pockets . |
| 2 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |
| 3 | Inroads staff had the opportunity to see the video at total quality teamwork evenings which took place in the Banfield Bowling Club near Inroads ' McLeod Street headquarters . |
| 4 | The school , therefore , has in its budget funds for teachers ' salaries and other staffing costs , equipment and books , heating and lighting , rates , examination fees and all internal maintenance associated with normal ‘ wear and tear ’ . |
| 5 | These four limitations of the research literature on mothers ' experiences of poverty — the lack of up-to-date evidence , the lack of data on women , the variability of measures of low income/poverty , and the eclipsing of ‘ race ’ and other dimensions of difference among women — set limits on what is known about mothers in low-income households . |
| 6 | Mr Maxwell said that his alterations — which he would make for publication in his newspapers — were to substitute the term ombudsman for readers ' representatives and to widen the clause in the code of practice which refers to non-payment of criminals to include those benefiting from a criminal act . |
| 7 | The role which the tutor should adopt is that of a sounding board for students ' ideas and suggestions . |
| 8 | The Law Society has today published the findings of a research survey into practice management in solicitors ' firms . |
| 9 | THE LAW Society yesterday won leave to challenge the Lord Chancellor 's decision to change the way solicitors in England and Wales are paid for legal aid work in magistrates ' courts . |
| 10 | She has produced one full of legal terms for the Guardian Gazette , the Journal of the Law Society ; one on the stock exchange for Investors ' Chronicle ; one for the Vegetarian in which she was required to make propaganda against meat eating . |
| 11 | They include new specifications to reduce pollutants in the exhaust gases from ships ' engines and bans on the use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems and on halons in new fire extinguishing equipment . |
| 12 | To attract more businesses , the maximum fees for company registration were cut from £50,000 to £5,000 and a 10 p.c. rebate on employers ' national insurance contributions was introduced . |
| 13 | A week later , Ken Winckle , vice president of operations , led the scholarship presentation for employees ' children . |
| 14 | symbol of judicial authority displayed in the Admiralty Court in Doctors ' Commons . |
| 15 | Legal aid taxation of contemnors ' costs . |
| 16 | Legal aid taxation of appellants ' costs . |
| 17 | " For God 's sake ! " whispered Mr Plant , and without further argument he agreed to convey the tin bath from Swines ' yard to the rectory garden on the morning of Easter Saturday . |
| 18 | Lying in bed at dawn on Tuesday morning at Swans ' Meadow , she felt the stirrings of grief more as a physical process than a mental one . |
| 19 | These , together with the new independent Crown Prosecution Service and the introduction of tape recording of suspects ' statements , are intended to balance the increased powers given to the police to enable them to investigate crime more effectively . |
| 20 | It will also carry out a year-long research project into pupils ' choices at 16 for Staffordshire County Council . |
| 21 | Peter Wright : from third-choice Scot to Lions ' selection |
| 22 | The cash will be raised by a 5% levy on all transfer fees and a 10% levy on clubs ' bonus payments the cash received at the end of each season relating to where teams ' finish in the final league tables . |
| 23 | more frequent and better use of expressions of appreciation contingent upon teachers ' efforts and achievements ; |
| 24 | Taking funds out of deposit accounts and using them to repay mortgages will be particularly attractive for high earners who no longer receive mortgage interest relief at the upper rate — thanks to Mr Lamont — and who might suffer up to 50 p.c. deductions on savings ' earnings . |
| 25 | Earlier editions quoted extensively from case law on auditors ' duties . |
| 26 | The index linking of teachers ' pensions is actually that 's actually met by the government and not the teachers ' superannuation fund . |
| 27 | CITA , Britain 's leading stress counselling agency , developed the tape programme last year after starting anxiety clinics in GPs ' surgeries and being beseiged by people wanting help . |
| 28 | She sang folk songs at cousins ' bar mitzvahs . |
| 29 | Second Division promotion contenders Rochdale Hornets and Featherstone Rovers have agreed to a swap deal between Hornets ' £90,000 transfer-listed centre , Darren Abram , and Rovers ' £100,000-rated prop , Leo Casey . |
| 30 | One shop in Liverpool has discounted Adidas trainers in kids ' size two on display but not for sale . |