Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reasons for bankers ' reluctance have not been articulated .
2 There are reasons for Cardus ' confidence .
3 There are many complex reasons for historians ' disagreement .
4 Other reasons for pupils ' absence can provide challenges to the school .
5 Pupils ' non-attendance at school can be authorised or not and there are many reasons for pupils ' absence — illness being the most common .
6 The evaluation will consist of : — baseline criteria for the effectiveness of a computer based course — a description of critical aspects of course implementation — an analysis of the reciprocal interactions between teachers ' views of mathematics , mathematics teaching and computers and their progress on the course .
7 The responsibilities of this department cover the development of the HCIMA professional qualifications , liaison with centres offering HCIMA programmes and administration of the moderation system , accreditation of hospitality programmes in the UK and overseas , management development activities for members ' self development , Student Members recruitment , Licentiate assessments and career counselling .
8 It was not until 1982 that mandatory scales for architects ' services were replaced by recommended fees — with the RIBA responsible for establishing the scale .
9 Assurances were given about the number of lesson visits on which judgments about teachers ' competence would be based , and an attempt to make the procedure more ‘ egalitarian ’ , or ‘ fraternal ’ was blocked .
10 Also , there has to be strict rules for visitors ' feeding of the animals and most of the time no feeding of this kind is allowed .
11 I have obtained the permission of the chairman to sell the shares as required by the company 's inhouse rules for directors ' dealings .
12 It drops central bankers ' insistence on centrally-set rules for members ' budget deficits .
13 Top Tory Michael Ancram yesterday joined calls for taxpayers ' cash to be restricted to the Queen and Prince Charles .
14 Some part of the variation between action and control groups at first referral is also probably due to the slightly greater difficulty in the collection of data about control sample clients than about those in the action sample , where the development officers were engaged in detailed meetings about clients ' circumstances with service-providers of all kinds .
15 Doubts about banks ' capital reserves , which include stock in clients ' companies , and property-related bad debts may continue to undermine confidence in the market as a whole .
16 The school , therefore , has in its budget funds for teachers ' salaries and other staffing costs , equipment and books , heating and lighting , rates , examination fees and all internal maintenance associated with normal ‘ wear and tear ’ .
17 Without systematic data comparably defined , it will be difficult indeed to advance the level of knowledge as to relationships between mothers ' health and well-being and their fertility patterns .
18 Walker , ever the realist , is under no illusions about Crusaders ' chances against the
19 But worries about psychologists ' neutrality continually resurface in the discipline , in a history which includes 1960s concerns with experimenter effects ; 1970s ethogeny ; a 1980s preoccupation with the social representations which psychologists as well as subjects draw on ; and a long list of attempts to replace living with automated experimenters , from written instructions , to computers .
20 27 Local walks for Ramblers ' Association Forbidden Britain Day .
21 Another statement covers American university libraries , but does not cite formulae for collections ' size or growth rate which can be generally applied .
22 I read long-forgotten authors of books about girls ' schools in Switzerland or Paris , as well as Angela Brazil , Noel Streatfield , Pamela Brown and , above all , Enid Blyton .
23 The only solace for all this was the weekly reading of Modern Boy , a magazine which I have never seen mentioned in anthologies , books about boys ' magazines or reminiscences .
24 FUN DESIGNS FOR KIDS ' ROOMS
25 It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium .
26 The services are aimed at reducing the risks of Legionnaires ' Disease and Sick Building Syndrome and are supported by the Group 's specialist knowledge of the ways in which regular maintenance can prevent contamination of water and ventilation systems .
27 The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions .
28 A quick glance around the line-ups of Leeds ' rivals reveals a team of Elland Road rejects who 've gone on to prove themselves in the Premier League .
29 THE two branches of the legal profession last night remained split over the abolition of the barristers ' monopoly in the higher courts as the Government published its Courts and Legal Services Bill , overturning centuries of lawyers ' traditions .
30 Even though the boys and girls are figments of Robbins ' imagination , their brief encounter is based in reality even to the introduction of popular dance steps and stylistic elements current during the 1939–45 war .
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