Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management . |
| 2 | The extensive , systematic and ‘ unalterable ’ inequalities between different groups ' economic muscle and political influence are exposed . |
| 3 | As well as a means of ensuring that interoperability and compatibility between different vendors ' Tuxedo-based products , USL wants the club to clearly identify these products by stamping them with the Tuxedo brand . |
| 4 | It might also prove illuminating if we adopt a dialectical approach , considering , for instance , the conflicts between different characters ' conversational behaviour . |
| 5 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 6 | From 1913 to 1918 she was secretary of the Women 's Labour League , and strongly defended the need for separate women 's political organizations , at least until women had acquired political experience and maturity comparable with that of men . |
| 7 | A European Central Bank would operate a lender of last resort facility for individual nations ' central banks , and would aim at stability of the European economy through interlocking economic policies within the EEC . |
| 8 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
| 9 | A rights issue has the advantage of preserving shareholders ' pre-emption rights in respect of a new issue of the offeror 's shares , whereas this is not possible with a cash underwritten alternative unless accompanied by an open offer and clawback ( see below ) . |
| 10 | The teaching association therefore represents one of the most vocal and important expressions of professional women 's organized opposition to the regime . |
| 11 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 12 | It is suggested in Bramwell on Taxation of Companies and Company Reconstructions that this might constitute a value-shifting arrangement entitling the Revenue to adjust the consideration on a disposal of Target 's shares , though the Revenue have indicated that payments for group relief would not usually constitute value shifting — see the Institute of Chartered Accountants ' Technical Release TR 291 . |
| 13 | Old Slains stands even more perilously close to the North Sea cliffs , and in high weather the waves climb and spray the windows of the people who live in the houses under the shadow of Old Slains 's remaining high wall . |
| 14 | A much more useful and realistic approach is to study recordings of different speakers ' natural , spontaneous speech and try to make generalisations about attitudes and intonation on this basis . |
| 15 | National Union of Public Employees ' senior London officer Chris Humphreys said : ‘ It is essential the inquiry reports quickly and that any additional resources required are available . |
| 16 | In 1989 it won the Institute of Public Relations ' top prize , the Sword of Excellence . |
| 17 | The importance of sterling movement for the equity market extends , of course , well beyond export considerations to include the translation of foreign subsidiaries ' overseas earnings . |
| 18 | Russell , which appeared in the Journal of British Studies vi(2) 1966 , and ‘ The Population of an English Village -1086–1801 ’ by W.G. Hoskins , which was printed in his volume Provincial England ( 1963 ) . |
| 19 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1910 he was one of the prime organizers of the Royal Institute of British Architects ' International Town Planning Congress ( which attracted an astonishing 1,300 delegates ) ; between 1912 and 1914 he was lecturing at the University of Birmingham ; and in 1913 he was playing an active role in establishing a Town Planning Institute . |
| 22 | The court also upheld a series of decrees allowing the seizure and confiscation of suspected traffickers ' personal property . |
| 23 | A similar approach is followed in the specification for the Institute of Civil Engineers ' new style contract . |
| 24 | Also , the spread of investments will reduce the impact of individual companies ' corporate insolvencies . |
| 25 | Table 4.4 clearly shows that in spite of all the additional resources of PNP , and in spite of the fact that , on average , their teachers were involved in more than three teacher-pupil interactions every minute , individual children took part in only eleven teacher-pupil interactions per hour , of which fewer than half were task-related : indeed in some classes the mean hourly rate of individual pupils ' task-related interactions with their teachers was as tow as two , and in no class was it higher than eleven . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | the tape recording of individual children 's oral performance for assessment purposes might not be part of normal classroom activity and thus not in line with TGAT recommendations . |
| 28 | Yet , against this sense of her work being inevitably implicated in the strategies of European supremacy in the age of slavery and early colonialism , we can not fail to find her representations of white women 's moral character , emotional profundity and historical agency , compelling . |
| 29 | This is graphically illustrated by Jenkins 's investigations ( 1985 , 1986 ) of white managers ' varying conceptions of the capacities of Asian and Afro-Caribbean workers . |
| 30 | The oxidation number of uncombined elements = 0 one-atom ions = charge each hydrogen atom = +1 each oxygen atom = -2 2 . |