Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that eight years ' task , those at the heart of it were learning themselves how to pray more deeply and contemplatively . |
| 2 | One major achievement was the adoption , by the influential Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Community ( CCBE ) — after some 15 years ' debate — of a draft directive on rights of establishment under home title . |
| 3 | In the fading days of the postwar consensus , under the Labour patriarchy of that civil servants ' union boss Jim Callaghan , Apocalypse seemed more viable than pleasure . |
| 4 | If the money plus the bonus is left for a further two years , an additional bonus of another 14 months ' interest is paid , boosting the tax-free return to 8.62 per cent ( worth 11.49 per cent to the basic rate taxpayer , or 14.37 per cent to a higher rate taxpayer ) . |
| 5 | The phone of another leading miners ' union official was also allegedly tapped in the late 1970s , as was the phone of a shop steward at the Ford plant at Dagenham . |
| 6 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 7 | The EEC this month revealed that Europe 's nuclear industry holds a stockpile of some four years ' supply of enriched uranium . |
| 8 | The papers , covering the period 1834-68 , include copies of some 300 apprentices ' indentures for the years 1856-68 . |
| 9 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 10 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |
| 11 | The former training division is an established one of some 25 years ' standing . |
| 12 | The call came from the director general of the Office of Fair Trading , Sir Gordon Borrie , in a hard-hitting review of this 16 years ' work , at a recent Institute of Directors ' branch meeting . |
| 13 | We will respect the confidentiality of such third parties ' information provided to us by other professionals and agencies . |
| 14 | At first sight ‘ geography ’ is most important in the location-factor approach , since both its question and its answer are explicitly geographical : ‘ why this particular geographical shift ? ’ … ’ because of these geographical factors ' . |
| 15 | The share of these joint ventures ' results and net assets attributable to LASMO are fully reflected in the Group consolidated accounts . |
| 16 | When the distribution of these three candidates ' surpluses was complete in Stage IV , VUPP had 1.4 quotas . |
| 17 | The indices of these three authors ' works do not contain the word ‘ Burgh ’ but make reference to ‘ Borough ’ . |
| 18 | All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports . |
| 19 | All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports . |
| 20 | Only 3% of all Californian banks ' $260 billion in loans are problem ones , as against 6.4% of New York banks ' $480 billion . |
| 21 | Then you are paid 1/80th of the average of all those years ' earnings , for every year you 've been in the scheme . |
| 22 | I hope that I have done justice to at least some part of all hon. Members ' contributions . |
| 23 | Credit was the solvent that oiled the wheels of many other retailers ' businesses . |
| 24 | Of course , the sad truth behind the break-up of many young couples ' marriages was just that — they 'd been too young . |
| 25 | It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium . |
| 26 | They are likely to include the following : ( a ) the execution and exchange of the acquisition agreement ( by which Newco will buy the business from the vendor ) ; ( b ) the managers having subscribed in cash for ordinary shares in Newco ; ( c ) the passing of any necessary shareholders ' resolutions ; ( d ) receipt by the investors of a satisfactory accountants ' report , audited accounts and management accounts ; ( e ) the managers having entered into service agreements ; ( f ) receipt by the investors of certificates of title ; ( g ) the investors being satisfied with the loan and banking facilities being provided to Newco ; ( h ) keyman insurance having been taken out for the benefit of the company over the lives of each of the managers . |
| 27 | I agree that E-heads nabbing your drinks and fags all night are the bane of most decent clubbers ' lives , but try to be a little more consistent ! |
| 28 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 29 | The withdrawal of most full-time students ' entitlement to those benefits took place at a time when substantial additional resources were being made available to students through the education system . |
| 30 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |