Example sentences of "[noun] for [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons for tutors ' apparent retreat to the classroom , among which may be increasing administrative demands on their time and/or lack of opportunities for recent clinical experience . |
| 2 | Side-sheets for clubs ' existing mobile systems are available , plus a complete recovering service . |
| 3 | However , the club will now ballot the 3,000 supporters who travelled with the club 's official travel agency to Bruges for Rangers ' last Champions league tie on foreign soil . |
| 4 | However , behaviour therapy was more effective than insight-oriented therapy for patients ' subsequent depression , anxiety , and assertiveness . |
| 5 | The end of the bland three-line statement and of the understated ‘ subject to ’ comment comes into effect for companies ' annual accounts with year-ends on or after 30 September with the introduction of the Auditing Practices Board 's first statement of auditing standards . |
| 6 | A new standard known as FAS107 came into effect for banks ' 1992 accounts . |
| 7 | It also restricts opportunities for pupils ' own interesting mathematical questions like : |
| 8 | So protests about the Government 's proposals to charge parents for extras ' such as swimming lessons and cooking materials fall wide of the mark . |
| 9 | The Conservatives attacked Labour tax plans strongly , focusing on the party 's proposed additional higher rate of income tax of 50 per cent for taxable incomes over £36,375 and the removal of the current £21,060 ceiling for employees ' 9 per cent national insurance contributions , which meant that the effective marginal rate of taxation on higher incomes would be 59 per cent . |
| 10 | The SCOTVEC system will provide national audit criteria as benchmarks for centres ' internal quality systems to be measured against and also as targets against which those systems can be developed . |
| 11 | There are a number of possible explanations for girls ' superior primary school performance . |
| 12 | In addition the Budget made the tax on diesel supplied by firms for employees ' private motoring lower than the tax on petrol . |
| 13 | As regards BS 5750 , s 401 gives a similar relief for companies ' pre-trading expenditure incurred ( as for the sole traders and partnerships ) within five years of commencement , and this section ought to validate such expenditure for tax purposes . |
| 14 | The scheme has been a success for fund-holders ' own patients , but detrimental to the rest . |
| 15 | According to this grouping , genetic or innate differences in ability would go into the ‘ cognitive ’ basket , as would another hypothesis , namely , that the reason for girls ' lower achievement in mathematics is their poorer spatial visualisation ability . |
| 16 | The reason for companies ' single-minded loyalty to their workers is fading , as is the reason for workers ' loyalty to their firms . |
| 17 | Fees for Teachers ' Further Training |
| 18 | A new system of classification for Britains ' designated " clean " bathing beaches was recommended in a motion at the Institution of Environmental Health Officers ' annual congress , held in September . |
| 19 | It was a handicap becoming increasingly clear to the Australians , and Bernard Callinan was later to put a surplus of food as the prerequisite for guerrillas ' friendly relations with a local population . |
| 20 | There was a slight tendency for GPs ' female referrals to have fewer psychiatric primary problems : 78 per cent , compared with 86 per cent of other women and 88 per cent of male GP referrals . |
| 21 | The female 's ability to store sperm has important consequences for birds ' mating behaviour . |
| 22 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 23 | £300,000 for princesses ' beaten maid * . |
| 24 | While the working-class was the principal target for purists ' interventionary zeal they also provided rank-and-file recruits for the new movement . |