Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our responses to Five Minutes ' Peace are more at odds . |
| 2 | Traditionally , computer manufacturers have used proprietary software to ‘ lock in ’ users , who would then find it impossible or prohibitively expensive , to move their applications to other manufacturers ' machines — or even , in IBM 's case , different machines from the same manufacturer . |
| 3 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 4 | Delegation of management responsibilities will be needed : ( 1 ) to avoid having to take day to day problems to full partners ' meetings for decision ; ( 2 ) to free individual partners from onerous administrative tasks so as to allow them to concentrate on fee earning ; ( 3 ) because it is inherently more efficient . |
| 5 | As with most of their changes to local authorities ' funding , the government 's aim for LMS is increased accountability , and therefore efficiency . |
| 6 | Billingham 's inputs to General Chemicals ' business are sulphuric and nitric acids , sodium nitrite and ammonia ; sales , £34 million . |
| 7 | The subsequent trial was a travesty , and , as a deterrent , an inexperienced judge sentenced Loveless and his five associates to seven years ' transportation . |
| 8 | The Head of State commuted the sentences to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 10 | On July 11 a Nairobi court sentenced four men to seven years ' imprisonment for sedition . |
| 11 | ( 11 ) To transfer proceedings to another magistrates ' court or to a county court . |
| 12 | It recommended ( for both ) increases in salary , and the extension of training courses to three years ' full-time study . |
| 13 | The cost of adapting the air-conditioning systems to these members ' whims , it has just been calculated , is a mere $1m — or 200,000 child immunisations in the third world . |
| 14 | At present re-entry programmes range from three evenings to six months ' day release plus supervised practice , and so it is virtually impossible to list every variation on the theme here . |