Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for bankers ' reluctance have not been articulated . |
| 2 | There are many complex reasons for historians ' disagreement . |
| 3 | Other reasons for pupils ' absence can provide challenges to the school . |
| 4 | Pupils ' non-attendance at school can be authorised or not and there are many reasons for pupils ' absence — illness being the most common . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not until 1982 that mandatory scales for architects ' services were replaced by recommended fees — with the RIBA responsible for establishing the scale . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have obtained the permission of the chairman to sell the shares as required by the company 's inhouse rules for directors ' dealings . |
| 11 | It drops central bankers ' insistence on centrally-set rules for members ' budget deficits . |
| 12 | Top Tory Michael Ancram yesterday joined calls for taxpayers ' cash to be restricted to the Queen and Prince Charles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Walker , ever the realist , is under no illusions about Crusaders ' chances against the |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 27 Local walks for Ramblers ' Association Forbidden Britain Day . |
| 20 | Another statement covers American university libraries , but does not cite formulae for collections ' size or growth rate which can be generally applied . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | FUN DESIGNS FOR KIDS ' ROOMS |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Dependency on standardised routines and rough and ready indicators of patients ' needs , such as their level of mobility , is essential ( Proctor 1990 ) . |
| 27 | When in the early days pilgrims gathered to hold the feast at Gilgal , perhaps their celebrations included a procession round the ruined mound of Jericho , where no walls were any longer to be seen above ground , with the blowing of sacred trumpets of rams ' horns , and the solemn carrying of the ark . |
| 28 | It allows a salesperson to offset the strengths of competitors ' products , which may be mentioned by potential buyers , against their weaknesses . |
| 29 | Microbial air sampling , which is technically difficult and only occasionally useful in establishing the source of outbreaks of legionnaires ' disease , has shown low concentrations of Legionella pneumophila in aerosol : 0.02 colony-forming units per litre of aerosol around a cooling tower and 0.19 colony-forming units per litre of air in shower aerosol . |
| 30 | It is often suggested that ‘ the members ’ as the beneficiaries of directors ' duties means ‘ the present and future members ’ . |