Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two non-constituency Council seats were designated for financial services and for sole practitioner representation , and following a resolution at last year 's Annual General Meeting , the Society made an initial pump-priming grant to a newly formed sole practitioners ' group which subsequently achieved Law Society group status . |
| 2 | In part , this is to prevent former high-ranking IRS and Treasury Department officials handling foreign firms ' transfer pricing cases . |
| 3 | Minister visits endangered birds ' sanctuary |
| 4 | It drops central bankers ' insistence on centrally-set rules for members ' budget deficits . |
| 5 | For this reason , programmes of teacher education need to recognise and respect individual teachers ' responsibility for their own growth . |
| 6 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | Understanding international competitors ' behaviour may depend crucially on understanding the way they finance their business . |
| 8 | But Customs have agreed that the requirement to obtain overseas customers ' VAT numbers need not be implemented until 1 July 1993 . |
| 9 | In this case a strategy of building and strengthening an existing practice had combined with organizational arrangements to increase small farmers ' output . |
| 10 | So far we have reported Afro-Caribbean pupils ' perception of the attitudes held by certain teachers and how this may influence their behaviour . |
| 11 | A horse that has spotted a possible predator arouses other horses ' attention in this way , and they all prepare for flight . |
| 12 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 13 | Medium sized firms would thus have difficulty keeping institutional investors ' business . |
| 14 | Moreover , you give a misleading impression that Japan 's foreign aid is a tool to promote Japanese companies ' business activities . |
| 15 | Neither party offered a workable plan to rescue Serbia 's crumbling economy , but the SPS attracted strong workers ' support by promising continued full employment . |
| 16 | On 18 October , therefore , the British government turned down the new fare proposals from American operators , while the CAA rejected British Airways ' request . |
| 17 | These freight forwarders frequently act either as carriers in their own right when they consolidate multiple shippers ' cargo and hire space on the vessel or vessels involved in the maritime leg of the journey . |
| 18 | The MoD denies cash savings caused the move — stressing that the bands charge full Musicians ' Union rates when playing at outside venues and that the money each brings in is placed in a national pot . |
| 19 | This lifted investors ' spirits immensely , as well as filling well-informed politicians ' campaign coffers . |
| 20 | The industry blames successive governments ' lack of interest in vocational training ; perhaps the new training plans announced by the prime minister this week will help to fill the gap . |
| 21 | Vijay , who has appeared in movies such as Octopussy and Star Trek IV , owns the largest Asian cable channel in America and has just bought Universal Studios ' music arm . |
| 22 | Moreover , general practitioners may also be asked to see patients specifically to help social workers ' assessment procedures , and many fear that such consultations will overwork and underpay them . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that the global , often UK-originated course is likely to become less important as product becomes increasingly country , market and syllabus-specific , it is the UK 's TEFL industry that underpins British publishers ' claim to superior authenticity , experience and expertise . |
| 24 | It is probably the comparative smoothness , quietness and reponsiveness of the XUD that is overcoming British drivers ' prejudice against diesels . |
| 25 | In the case of the wrongful deportation of any asylum seeker , he admitted that he was consulted , but he hides behind the excuse that he did no more than accept civil servants ' advice . |
| 26 | A $4000 annual tax on a rich family raises poor families ' income by only $1000 each because of their large numbers , but how much beyond that $1000 would you accept as a tolerable loss ? |
| 27 | About 160 people in England and Wales die each year from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol , although this official figure may underestimate the true annual mortality as many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ' distress . |
| 28 | While locality links are planned to aid general practitioners ' involvement a major thrust of this initiative is to allocate the district budget to individual practices on an indicative basis . |
| 29 | She confirmed other insiders ' information that Bryan became Fergie 's boyfriend last November . |
| 30 | Alison Cleland , a development worker with the Children 's Rights Development Unit , said that existing legislation had been shown to be completely ineffective in safeguarding young workers ' welfare . |