Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should go without saying that questions about the purposes and character of children 's learning are of fundamental importance not just to teachers but also to those who undertake the task of constructing the policies and strategies through which teachers ' ideas and practices are shaped . |
| 2 | Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A. |
| 3 | Some , primarily because of their educational background , though there will be other causes , are in a position in a business enterprise to be able to define their own roles and will have a determining voice in deciding pay and other rewards and , in general , be able to define the procedures and roles by which others ' work will be done . |
| 4 | Walking into the ISDN User Show at Wembley , North London the other day , the first four stands belonged to communications magazines : cynics might see this as evidence that the technology is still at the hype and talk stage , but most exhibitors seemed pleased by the degree to which visitors ' questions had progressed past the ‘ what is ISDN anyway ’ stage to the ‘ how much does this box cost ’ phase ; some 900 visitors attended on the first day , the second seemed rather busier and at some of the conference sessions , notably British Telecommunications Plc 's ‘ where are we now ’ presentation , it was standing room only … |
| 5 | By duties I mean the responsibilities of which teachers ' work is composed . |
| 6 | Similarly , the impact of GIST may have been as great in schools which had no contact with the project at all , because of the changing climate of opinion in which girls ' under-achievement in science and technology came to be seen as a serious educational issue . |
| 7 | Indeed , he proposed a two-stage process in which individuals ' identities were constructed . |
| 8 | The trade body for the insurance industry , the Association of British Insurers , produced proposals in 1991 for a new basis on which shareholders ' profits from long term insurance business might be recognised . |
| 9 | Within these four ‘ Syllabus Areas ’ , seven concepts are identified as forming the basis on which pupils ' knowledge is built up . |
| 10 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 11 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 12 | Calculating mathematical functions or remembering meaningless patterns of digits are things at which engineers ' boxes excel and which human beings do not . |
| 13 | Continuing NT 's back pain campaign , we examine practical ways in which nurses ' own awareness of the problem can be raised . |
| 14 | Dyson ( 1986 ) , for example , drew attention to the ways in which professionals ' confidential files often contain materials contributing to the social stereotyping of children and their families . |
| 15 | The findings from these projects indicate some of the ways in which girls ' performance is produced and evaluated . |
| 16 | The ways in which students ' progress through Compact are monitored will vary from Compact to Compact . |
| 17 | One respect in which rabbits ' lives are less complicated than those of humans is that they are not ashamed to use force . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State has made regulations specifying teachers ' contractual obligations ; a comprehensive list of duties ; he has decided to scrap the long-established machinery in which teachers ' pay and conditions were negotiated and has assumed temporary powers to determine these himself ; and he has introduced a national curriculum . |
| 19 | It is well established that there are voters whose preferences are influenced by the alphabetical sequence in which candidates ' surnames appear on the ballot paper . |
| 20 | Moreover , throughout the year the particular day of the week on which Innocents ' Day had fallen the previous year was also regarded as a black-letter day , and was also called Innocents ' Day . |
| 21 | The targets will be the means by which pupils ' progress is measured . |
| 22 | In Elders IXL/Allied Lyons ( 1986 ) the MMC concerned itself with the method by which Elders ' bid was to be financed , but came to the view that the issue of leveraged bids was not one on which it should pronounce . |
| 23 | SEAC will also advise on the form in which teachers ' assessments should be recorded , how results should be reported and on the recommendations in the report of the Records of Achievement National Steering Committee , published in January 1989 . |
| 24 | The aim of the investigation is to interpret the legislation in consultation with the commission and brewers ; to examine the way in which brewers ' responses to the regulation are affecting or could affect clubs ; to assess the implications for the social role of clubs of this commercial regulation ; to examine similar effects of the extending of the free-market philosophy of the EEC ; and to identify shortcomings or inadequacies in the legal provision to cover social divergences between Britain and Europe . |
| 25 | The non-equivalence of the optimal tariff and its quota-equivalent arises from the way in which firms ' behaviour changes in the presence of quantity constraints . |
| 26 | We know little about the way in which workers ' motivations are affected by the creation of a powerful market test . |
| 27 | At the same time , firms not taking part in takeovers took on more debt , either gradually or in so-called ‘ leveraged recapitalisations ’ — in effect self-takeovers in which firms ' existing shareholders swapped some of their equity into debt . |
| 28 | All that remains is to assume an equilibrium in which investors ' expectations are realized on average and we have the ex-post version of Treynor 's measure , . |
| 29 | studies the extent to which firms ' fixed costs have been raised by Employment Protection legislation and the implications for work patterns ; |
| 30 | An additional variable is needed to account for the variation between the firms in the extent to which clients ' chosen outcomes were retained or transformed . |