Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not until 1982 that mandatory scales for architects ' services were replaced by recommended fees — with the RIBA responsible for establishing the scale . |
| 3 | I have obtained the permission of the chairman to sell the shares as required by the company 's inhouse rules for directors ' dealings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Walker , ever the realist , is under no illusions about Crusaders ' chances against the |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | FUN DESIGNS FOR KIDS ' ROOMS |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dependency on standardised routines and rough and ready indicators of patients ' needs , such as their level of mobility , is essential ( Proctor 1990 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It allows a salesperson to offset the strengths of competitors ' products , which may be mentioned by potential buyers , against their weaknesses . |
| 15 | It is often suggested that ‘ the members ’ as the beneficiaries of directors ' duties means ‘ the present and future members ’ . |
| 16 | Respondents were asked to rate their satisfaction with various aspects of lawyers ' services and facilities on a scale of one to five , where ‘ one ’ equates to ‘ not at all satisfied ’ and ‘ five ’ to ‘ very satisfied ’ . |
| 17 | A consideration of the problem of standing and the practical difficulties faced by would-be litigants will be postponed until other aspects of directors ' duties have been examined , and will appear in Chapter 8 . |
| 18 | Some aspects of travellers ' lives , of the collective context in which individual problems arise , can be very visible . |
| 19 | Although a number of Directives were adopted in the 1970s on various aspects of employees ' rights , it is the passage of the Single European Act which has given new impetus to the evolution of EC social policies . |
| 20 | The same wills also list the liturgical objects — crosses , plates , censers , bells , candle-sticks — that furnished these nobles ' chapels , and the reliquaries made of precious metals and precious stones and housing fragments of saints ' bones , hair and beards , or even the names of holy men , which the rich and powerful kept in their treasuries , or even wore around their necks . |
| 21 | seedpearls of snails ' eggs |
| 22 | Choosing emotionally and socially charged ( ’ generative ’ ) words and pictures of students ' problems , he generated discussion on how to improve their lives . |
| 23 | The Commission accused Macierewicz of " hypocrisy and an attempt to avoid the eventual legal consequences " in claiming that the documents were " informative " rather than lists of collaborators ' names as the Sejm resolution demanded . |
| 24 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 25 | Seedheads like kittens ' tails , and clover |
| 26 | Here and there , unperturbed , solitary among the crowd , the fulmars ; and out there in the air , huge and unmistakable among the teeming thousands , those unpleasant predators the great black-backed gulls , with their cruel beaks and dead eyes like sharks ' eyes , and their ineffable grace of flight . |
| 27 | In the pub , the Chatterton Arms , sat ageing Teddy Boys in drape coats , with solid sculpted quiffs like ships ' prows . |
| 28 | Thus a flow of funds into trusts ' shares , pushing up their price , may result in new issues and a flow of additional funds into the trust itself . |
| 29 | They have visited a brick works , turned their designs into architects ' drawings and are discovering the secrets of drainage and bricklaying . |
| 30 | The possibility of establishing a veterinary college in London with government money was one way its promoters considered financing it , but this was unfortunately dismissed in favour of raising funds from students ' fees and subscribers ' contributions . |