Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] [verb] " 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 | Targets would now be more specific , equipment more deadly , and the whole Combined Operations ' set-up run like a taut ship in the fashion of the destroyer HMS Kelly , which the CCO had sunk beneath him off Crete earlier that year . |
| 3 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 4 | There was a confrontation on Oct. 24 over the Azerbaijani authorities ' decision to appoint Siavush Mustafayev as the new Interior Minister of the autonomous republic of Nakhichevan . |
| 5 | At a time when the company was obliged to draw on its total shareholders ' equity to pay its ( reduced ) dividend , the installation of a new mainframe computer system linked to New York ( and horribly slow to use according to London experts ) accounted for a sizeable percentage of last year 's $7 million auction operating costs . |
| 6 | The row over the Fayed brothers ' acquisition simmers on , thanks to the Bank of England 's embarrassment over Harrods Bank . |
| 7 | UK PERSONAL COMPUTER DIRECT MARKETERS ' ASSOCIATION FORMED TO PROTECT CUSTOMERS — BUT THE US MAJORS STAY AWAY |
| 8 | Over time , the dominant influence on the nominal size of the government bond market will be the public authorities ' need to borrow and the means by which this need is met . |
| 9 | Henley has always been popular with visitors and societies , and in 1935 the British Racing Drivers ' Club came , arranged by Henley Member J.A . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the British Bankers ' Association said : ‘ It is a little premature for us to take a view on it . |
| 12 | Consumers repaid a substantial amount of debt and the amount of consumer credit outstanding from UK banks was actually less than a year ago , Lord Inchyra , the director-general of the British Bankers ' Association said yesterday . |
| 13 | The British Bankers ' Association has published a Statement of Recommended Accounting Practice on accounting for advances . |
| 14 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An accompanying facilitators ' pack contains nine training sessions of roughly 90-minutes . |
| 18 | In the year to December Japanese workers received a wage increase of 6.3% , equivalent to a real rise of 2.4% ; British workers ' pay rose by 9.8% , a real increase of only 0.5% . |
| 19 | Social workers ' tendency to co-opt her into the professional team will be difficult for her to handle . |
| 20 | She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nick Musgrave , secretary and chief executive of the Thoroughbred Breeders ' Association said : ‘ This is a very positive move in the right direction . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the tourist industry in the island as a whole was affected adversely by British Airways ' decision to stop the London-Dublin link ? |
| 25 | British Airways ' plan to invest in a 44% stake in USAir collapsed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Civil and Public Servants ' Association opposes the move , which it said will mean pay cuts of up to £2,000 a year . |
| 28 | The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 29 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |
| 30 | BRUCE 'S GUEST NIGHT ( BBC 1 ) The Old Pals ' Act appears to be alive and well in the TV world . |