Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reducing the emphasis on ‘ selling him up ’ and making it more possible for creditors ' claims to be met out of a debtor 's future income was one of the main objectives of the Insolvency Law Review Committee chaired by Sir Kenneth Cork which was appointed by the Government in 1977 and reported in 1982 . |
| 2 | It would be possible for officers ' secretaries to deal with external calls and most people do dial out direct anyway . |
| 3 | And , as is usual for Managers ' meetings , there was no one there to shout ‘ stop ’ . |
| 4 | Perhaps , accustomed to Francis , she 'd become unquestioning about others ' ways of life . |
| 5 | They would learn that in this violent age , not one in 10,000 gives a damn for prisoners ' rights . |
| 6 | However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage . |
| 7 | The Children Act clearly replaces this with parents ' responsibilities . |
| 8 | The court has held that the certificates remain final , even though the inspector has been negligent , on the basis that they are no different from experts ' decisions : Alfred C Toepfer v Continental Grain Co [ 1974 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 11 . |
| 9 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 10 | He said the survey also showed that people believed ‘ the experts ’ had already made up their minds and were not interested in others ' views . |
| 11 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 12 | I am interested in readers ' experiences of this phenomenon , their encounters with the players and the stories that have grown up around some of the longer serving recruits . |
| 13 | By the 1890s the deleterious effect of the regular testing of limited pupil activities and relating this to teachers ' salaries became apparent |
| 14 | One person can scarcely have the time or the expertise needed to find out what has been published and link this to readers ' needs throughout his authority , especially when book provision is only one of his many responsibilities . |
| 15 | The major concern for clients in debt recovery work is reporting each stage of each case , and this report facility , linked with the information already held on computer , will provide an opportunity for reports to be prepared to clients ' specifications on any given timescale . |
| 16 | Nobody ever got high on elephants ' teeth . |
| 17 | In conclusion , the Survey indicated that its results demanded an emphasis on improvements in practice management and that the service could be faster and more responsive to users ' needs . |
| 18 | Will he continue to press for diversity in education through grant-maintained schools , through city technology colleges and through local management of schools responsive to parents ' wishes ? |
| 19 | The huge investment in computers , staff , and administration has the potential to improve the health service by making it more responsive to patients ' needs and raising awareness of costs . |
| 20 | The subsequent White Paper , Legal Services : A Framework for the Future ( Cm 740 ) , adopted a different tone , referring rather more to the requirement for legal services to be responsive to clients ' needs than to notions of competition and the discipline of the market ; but in content the proposals actually gave little ground on key points . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions . |
| 22 | This analysis is similar to that of shareholders ' funds and is required for the same reasons . |
| 23 | The speed of decision making of some tribunals is broadly comparable with that of magistrates ' courts and the county courts . |
| 24 | France 's last remaining colony of bears , in the Pyrenees National Park , are under renewed threat from road building schemes [ see ED no. 44 for farmers ' fears that the bears posed threats to their livestock ] . |
| 25 | These carriers are perfect for kids ' lunches , or as wacky handbags . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In terms of norms associated with dress , awards are made by official bodies such as tailors ' organizations to the best-dressed men in Britain . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |