Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The on-costs on labour such as employers ' national insurance contributions , CITB levy , holidays with pay scheme and other more indirect on-costs such as allowances for severance pay and legislation affecting employment , sick pay , allowance for employer 's liability and third party insurance , will be processed through both the cost and financial accounts .
2 At a later stage in the project , the investigators shall consider the impact of changes in financial assets on ‘ real ’ variables such as consumers ' expenditure .
3 The project has already shown the need for small-scale processing units for products such as goats ' cheese and vegetables .
4 Each need identified has its own place in the vicious circle : a reluctance on the part of schools to deploy community language teachers as part of their staffing establishment , and to offer adequate capitation for teachers deployed from units outside of the school ; a shortage of Section 11 staff to meet the demand from schools for community language provision ; a lack of back-up facilities in local institutions such as teachers ' centres , curriculum development units and local universities and polytechnics .
5 There are organisations for the United Kingdom , the Pensioners ' Convention and the Pensioners ' Liaison Forum , which bring together other national groups such as Pensioners ' Voice , the British Pensioner and Trades Union Association and other retired members groups .
6 The line-printer , dot-matrix printer and inkjet printer each has its own advantages and disadvantages , but all can be used to generate maps ranging from draft-quality maps such as Figures 4.3(a) and ( b ) to finished choropleth maps ( Figure 4.9 ) .
7 The importance of advocacy in mental health services has been emphasised by the government and this has been reflected in a growth in advocacy projects such as patients ' councils and schemes for individual advocates in hospitals .
8 The term is also used for one who manages the causes of others in courts of civil or canon law such as Doctors ' Commons was : described by Steerforth as ‘ a sort of monkish attorney ’ , DC 23 .
9 These provide a ready source of material on areas such as clients ' backgrounds , professional standards and good practices .
10 Kahan called for 80 per cent specialisation in areas such as children 's services and only 20 per cent on general social work training .
11 Non-wage costs such as firms ' social-security payments add 20–45% , far more than in America and Japan .
12 In a number of industries each firm 's product has some point of difference that differentiates it in some way from the products manufactured by other firms ; differentiation may be in terms of quality , design or even an intangible difference such as customers ' perceived image of the product .
13 The workshop produces a wide range of one-off furniture and interiors ranging from specialised pieces such as collectors ' cabinets or jewellery boxes through to complete ranges of furniture for dining rooms and studies .
14 Furthermore , attacks such as Crews 's are , as he acknowledges , not taken seriously and replied to in their own terms , but treated as symptoms of repressed disturbance .
15 Supplier groups that is to say the welfare professional organisations such as teachers ' groups and social workers ' groups , also have an interest in the expansion of government expenditure .
16 Group I introns reside in a large number of genomes from various sources such as phages T4 and SPO1 ( 47 , 48 , 49 ) , cyanobacteria ( 50 , 51 ) , plastids ( 52 , 53 ) , mitochondria and nuclei ( Tetrahymena ( 54 ) ; Physarum ( 55 ) ) .
17 Many litigation firms also suffer from the transactional " nature of their practice and find it difficult to build institutional , long-term relationships with clients even where this is possible , particularly where the practice is dependent on referrals from agencies such as Citizens ' Advice Bureaux and law centres where staff changes make relationships difficult to build and maintain .
18 For polymerase chain reaction assays , 5 µl supernatant sample was added to 45 µl reaction premix consisting of 67 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.8 , 16.6 mM NH 4 SO 4 , 3.35 mM MgCl 2 ( 6 mM for IS902-PCR ) , 1.7 mg/ml BSA , 0.2 mM of each of datp , dGTP , dCTP , dTTP , 300 ng each of primers P90 and P91 ( P102 and P103 for IS902-PCR ) , 10 mM β-mercaptoethanol , 10 mM Tris ; 0.1 mM EDTA and 2 units of Taq DNA polymerase ( Amplitaq T M Cetus ) .
19 The Sainsbury 's Lifestyle range of textiles went from strength to strength as the new team of specialist buyers and technologists introduced more quality items such as children 's footwear and men 's knitwear .
20 The visit will include a brief history of the forge and a live demonstration of making decorative items such as rams ' heads and owls for pokers and intricate scroll work , using traditional techniques .
21 Bodies such as farmers ' , young farmers ' and women 's organisations are playing an important and innovatory role .
22 In terms of norms associated with dress , awards are made by official bodies such as tailors ' organizations to the best-dressed men in Britain .
23 The opposition will want copy fee notes , certainly in respect of major disbursements such as experts ' fees and counsels ' fees .
24 The employer 's business was supplying fresh chickens and it was alleged that the employee had made wrongful use of sales information such as customers ' names and addresses .
25 Labour and the Liberal Democrats believe that spending a lot more of taxpayers ' money on education ( Labour £600 million , the Liberal Democrats £4.6 billion ) and denying parents a say over their children 's education , will somehow improve things .
26 The differences between men and women seem to arise from factors such as women 's hesitancy , women 's role as cajoler and mediator for men , and men 's social dominance and sense of themselves as more authoritative .
27 If such changes are introduced , in-house benefits such as directors ' dining rooms , sports facilities and so on will be a significantly less attractive means of providing benefits to employees .
28 Professional services such as architects ' or surveyors ' offices , or a design studio would suit the property .
29 Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community .
30 But it was obviously impossible to deal with a nation-wide emergency such as lorry-drivers ' strikes , and equally impossible to respond properly to a rash of major disputes all at the same time .
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