Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday . |
| 2 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 3 | But yesterday Dunnes Stores ( Billingham ) made a £1,000 offer and a former Oxford blue promised a £50 cheque to end worries that Richardson 's build-up would be affected after taking ten weeks ' unpaid leave from work . |
| 4 | She accuses Kingsley of mingling other travellers ' experiences with her own and writing of what she had never seen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Silvers , however , had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father , and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days ' leave for the duration of the General 's stay . |
| 7 | If graded tests are widely adopted within a school and if they are used properly as a means of assessing individual pupils ' ability and knowledge , according to their progress along the path of expertise , then the school must be prepared for classes that are grouped vertically , not horizontally . |
| 8 | On the advice of M Broussonet MD FRS , perpetual secretary of the Royal Society of Agriculture in Paris , he took the momentous step of obtaining six months ' leave of absence to visit England . |
| 9 | Many practices have so far opted not to take the inducements to fundhold , and some have invested a considerable amount of time and energy into alternative methods of organising general practitioners ' input into purchasing decisions . |
| 10 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 11 | The system of raising local authorities ' revenue by means of the rating system ( where the rateable value of property served as the basis for payment ) had been unpopular for many years . |
| 12 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 13 | Temporary appropriations for paying civil servants ' wages and unemployment and sickness benefits will have run out by then . |
| 14 | The special cases of literacy usage represented by the analysts ' own academic experience , by the literary forms of their own culture and other specific social conventions are still taken by many , often implicitly , as the appropriate models for describing the ‘ universal ’ qualities of literacy and for testing other groups ' or societies ' conventions of literacy usage . |
| 15 | New Line has ploughed its profits from ‘ Nightmare on Elm Street ’ and ‘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ into buying other firms ' film libraries and setting up a distribution system . |
| 16 | Any additional revenue goes into funding more boys ' towns . |
| 17 | With the subsequent adoption of top management systems , however , departments acquired enhanced capacity to identify costs , tasks , achievements and so on , and from the outset performance measurement was seen as an integral feature of the FMI , offering a tool for assessing progress with the attainment of departmental objectives and — since the Treasury 's multi-departmental review of budgeting ( HM Treasury , 1985 ; 1986a ) — for linking cost-centre managers ' budgets to output and achievement . |
| 18 | To return to football hooliganism in Britain itself , it is clear that the existence of ‘ ends ’ at football grounds all over the country plays a central part in maintaining working-class boys ' street-based culture . |
| 19 | He also draws attention to the anomaly in regulatory practice , in that sewerage companies are involved in regulation , yet as private companies have a vested financial interest in accepting other companies ' effluents . |
| 20 | However , the question of housing does require more extended treatment , both for its centrality as a material resource in the pattern of life chances of black people and for its possible role in understanding black pupils ' achievements in British schools . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The other was that in defining individual teachers ' roles , schools were asked to recognize the importance of job-satisfaction . |
| 23 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Another 15% of revenues came from selling other manufacturers ' peripheral products , including Hewlett-Packard Co 's printers ; and the last 5% was generated from services , such as on-site maintenance , up-grades and repairs . |
| 26 | Guerreiro had been widely criticized among environmentalists and Indian organizations for failing to take a sufficiently active role in defending native peoples ' interests . |
| 27 | Fujitsu and Toshiba have followed Hitachi and IBM Japan in cutting top executives ' pay following a weakening in consumer electronics and computer markets and a slide in profits . |
| 28 | The heaviest losses were sustained by members of so-called " excess-of-loss ( LMX ) spiral " syndicates which specialized in reinsuring each others ' and other companies ' exposure to high-level catastrophe risks . |
| 29 | Is it not the case that a similar figure would result from calculating seven years ' worth of tax relief for private medical insurance ? |
| 30 | The mission programme plays an important part in increasing local companies ' awareness of export potential and rewards . |