Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Our report was based on the Association of American Publishers ' Newsletter , which in a recent issue reported as follows : |
| 5 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We listen time and again to scare stories about loony left Labour councils , many of which are figments of Conservative Members ' imaginations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ' . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Magnum/Mayall/Nelson 's ( 1985 ) study of American employers ' use of temporary workers used the same " on-off " break in conducting its analysis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 19 | The interest spread to other disciplines , even to such apparently distant research areas as the relationship between ratings of female singers ' androgyny , and their music genre and record sleeve images ( Thaxton and Jaret 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The continued reliance throughout on independent directors as the cornerstone of good corporate governance , as the Financial Times notes , is an indication of institutional investors ' reluctance to play a fuller role in the direction of the companies they have shares in . |
| 21 | The pagination Table ( 6.4 ) gives a rough indication of national dailies ' increase in size ( new type faces and better ink eventually meant more words per page ) . |
| 22 | In January 1990 , however , the authorities discontinued the practice of stamping bearers ' passports to show that they were HIV-positive . |
| 23 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 24 | The Royal College of General Practitioners ' research unit has designated the virus H3N2 , English Flu , as having reached epidemic proportions , affecting more than 100 people in every 100,000 . |
| 25 | Treating heart attack victims with clot-busting drugs before they reach hospital can reduce deaths by up to 17 per cent , Dr Philip Hannaford , of the Royal College of General Practitioners ' Manchester research unit , told a meeting in Dallas , Texas , yesterday . |
| 26 | Cigarette smoking and parity as risk factors for the development of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women : results of the Royal College of General Practitioners ' oral contraception study |
| 27 | These relations have been examined in a cohort of 46000 women followed for up to 19 years during the Royal College of General Practitioners ' ( RCFP ) oral contraception study . |
| 28 | A previous report from the Royal College of General Practitioners ' ( RCGP ) oral contraception study suggested that the pill accelerated the development of symptomatic gall stone disease in women prone to the disease . |
| 29 | I am indebted to the College librarian , Linda Warden ( who compiled the index ) and to the library staff for their unfailing help with records and pictures , to Anna John who typed the manuscript , to David Gunn for photography and to Benita Horder , librarian of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ' Wellcome Library for historical material and illustrations . |
| 30 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |