Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 2 | The row over the Fayed brothers ' acquisition simmers on , thanks to the Bank of England 's embarrassment over Harrods Bank . |
| 3 | This kids ' book has an electronic strip down the side which you touch to get 10 different sounds that go with the story . |
| 4 | Rather than saying that £100 invested today at an annual rate of 10 per cent will yield £110 in 12 months ' time , we say that £1 10 due in 12 months ' time has a present value of £100 today . |
| 5 | The British Bankers ' Association points to ‘ the impracticality of requiring auditors to obtain assurances on the willingness of a bank to continue its existing facilities in terms which are too demanding ’ . |
| 6 | The British Bankers ' Association has published a Statement of Recommended Accounting Practice on accounting for advances . |
| 7 | It might seem obvious that all good design has to be ‘ editorially led ’ by a full understanding of the relative importance of different sections of the data , and by a full appreciation of the needs of the readers — but a critical look at some companies ' material makes it woefully apparent that things by no means always work like that . |
| 8 | With magnificent sea views , this one-time mariners ' inn combines the charm and hospitality of a bygone age with present-day comfort , and is happily run by a couple who genuinely like other people . |
| 9 | Electronic Buyers ' News claims Sun has recently been ‘ selectively marketing ’ the Sparc90 ( UX No 395 ) , an embedded Sparc design it built in tandem with Sun spin-off Harvest VLSI Design Center Inc and described at Hot Chips : The 13 MIPS design incorporates CPU and floating point on the same IC . |
| 10 | An accompanying facilitators ' pack contains nine training sessions of roughly 90-minutes . |
| 11 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |
| 12 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 13 | Some firms ' behaviour suggests that it did , but not simply by making them invest more in Japanese factories . |
| 14 | The new project will also allow the researchers to develop an analysis of how ( if at all ) higher-income households ' decision-making differs from the process in poorer families and how factors such as tax and social security considerations affect the two groups . |
| 15 | The Civil and Public Servants ' Association opposes the move , which it said will mean pay cuts of up to £2,000 a year . |
| 16 | The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 17 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 18 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 19 | A few seconds ' pause gives the speaker a chance to calm down and gauge the atmosphere in the room . |
| 20 | Briefly , the organisation British Actors ' Equity exists so that only bona fide members of the profession may apply for work : and those members must abide by the contractual rulings established by the Union in negotiation with managements in theatre , television and film . |
| 21 | Yves Domzalski of the European Bureau of Consumer Organisations , to which the British Consumers ' Association says that no system exists for governments to exchange information on medicines or a range of other products . |
| 22 | Although the Department of Trade and Industry estimates that between 250,000 and 300,000 companies ' turnover falls below the VAT registration threshold , the exemption limit is considerably lower than that proposed by , among others , the accountancy profession in the last consultation period . |
| 23 | Since Bains an increasing amount of chief officers ' time has been devoted to liaison with other departmental heads to formulate corporate strategies . |
| 24 | Three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teachers ' salary costs basically will fall down given that we 've had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year , coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with . |
| 25 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 26 | In undefended divorce cases a higher initial time limit of three hours ' work applies . |
| 27 | The provision as to three months ' notice has to be read with the limitation that there can only be dismissal for good cause . |
| 28 | For a company which in its 90 years ' existence has made its share of bad decisions , this may rank as the worst of them all . |
| 29 | The National Farmers ' Union does n't like the idea of set aside . |
| 30 | The National Farmers ' Union disputes the NCC 's claim that drainage is principally to blame , and suggests that predators are the main cause of falling bird numbers . |