Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had laid in Greek brandy and pink champagne for old times ' sake . |
| 2 | This document made it clear that the responsibility for determining coordinators ' roles rested with the heads , who were encouraged to choose from the 1985 specification provided by the Authority . |
| 3 | Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management . |
| 4 | It might also prove illuminating if we adopt a dialectical approach , considering , for instance , the conflicts between different characters ' conversational behaviour . |
| 5 | There is a tension between human beings ' sexual drives and civilization , because the latter needs people who will sublimate sexuality into activities which help to build up and preserve civilization . |
| 6 | THE European Commission gave the green light yesterday in Brussels for British Airways ' takeover of Dan-Air , dismissing objections by rival carriers and the Belgian government . |
| 7 | The leaders are important also because they are an essential factor in making effective political forces in this way out of more general group interests , referred to by Schumpeter as group-wise volitions ' . |
| 8 | There were , there were two erm boarding schools for Methodist ministers ' children . |
| 9 | This agreement grew out of a proposal put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev as a compromise between the demands for individual states ' armies and unified CIS conventional forces . |
| 10 | In the interviews with doctors complementary data about general practitioners ' will also be collected . |
| 11 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
| 12 | Overall the present arrangements are messy and are causing tension , fragmentation , and confusion between general practitioners ' roles in purchasing and provision . |
| 13 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 14 | As an OECD study notes the borderline between public and private enterprises is difficult to draw … some enterprises are more public than others , some are only nominally public and have all the essential characteristics of private organizations ' ( 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 15 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine is to give the opening address at Communicating 2000 , a conference organised on behalf of the International Association of Financial Executives ' Institutes ( IAFEI ) by the Financial Executives Group at the Institute . |
| 16 | At the International Association of Culinary Professionals ' conference in the US , Henrietta Green was given a Julia Child Cookbook Award for A Glorious Harvest ( Sedgwood Press ) . |
| 17 | Our report was based on the Association of American Publishers ' Newsletter , which in a recent issue reported as follows : |
| 18 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 19 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 20 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 21 | We listen time and again to scare stories about loony left Labour councils , many of which are figments of Conservative Members ' imaginations . |
| 22 | During the Depression years mothers often called at the better-off houses in the neighbourhood to try and find places for their daughters and one woman recalled employing a succession of unemployed miners ' daughters to whom she paid 5/ a week . |
| 23 | The convention 's first section on the main areas of co-operation was headed by a chapter on environmental issues , in which both sides committed themselves not just to respecting the environment in the planning and execution of aid projects , but also to ensuring that " economic and social development is based on a sustainable balance between economic objectives , management of natural resources and enhancement of human resources ' . |
| 24 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 25 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
| 26 | In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying . |
| 27 | The second main study of industrial workers ' attitudes was carried out by Brown and Levin in the early 1970s , with a national sample of over 2,000 weekly-paid workers . |
| 28 | In the same week in which the Wall Street Journal editorial appeared , it was announced in Britain that an extensive study of lone parents ' reliance on social security would be carried out after comments from Ministers that the state is having to foot the bill for the so-called dependency culture ( Guardian , 18 January 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 29 | Magnum/Mayall/Nelson 's ( 1985 ) study of American employers ' use of temporary workers used the same " on-off " break in conducting its analysis . |
| 30 | In reporting a national conference in February 1988 , Earley ( 1988 : 64 – 5 ) reported : As for the future of annual governors ' reports and APMs , most participants agreed they provided an opportunity for governors , teachers and parents to work together . |