Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspired in part by Gandhi , Niyogi drew on Marx and Mao to create a non-dogmatic popular movement that integrated the work , social and cultural aspects of its members ' lives . |
| 2 | Already the atmosphere is such that companies such as Chubb Insurance Company of Europe is advising client directors to make concerted efforts not only to be familiar with all aspects of their companies ' activities but to take prudent action at the boardroom table : right down to ensuring all documents are prepared ‘ with the expectation that they will be scrutinised at a later date by others who are looking for evidence of wrongdoings ’ , that detailed minutes are taken , and that they should vote against any proposal rather than abstain because abstention could be construed as approval . |
| 3 | Leaders influence those aspects of their subordinates ' interests , energies and drive which can not be harnessed by simple organisation structure , job definitions , or more formal management techniques . |
| 4 | In addition , personal tutors receive copies of their tutees ' records and timetables , and admissions tutors receive regular and on demand analyses of applications data to support their decision making and to assist the meeting of both individual field and overall Course intake targets . |
| 5 | Regional Railways have requested that they see copies of our contractors ' performance reports . |
| 6 | Their talk had turned to the world beyond O-levels : finishing schools in Switzerland , modelling or secretarial courses , steady romances with the sons of their parents ' friends , or the heady excitement of the debutante season . |
| 7 | Mathematics materials need to offer images of a world which pupils recognise and feel part of , not unrealistic , ill-informed views of their pupils ' cultures . |
| 8 | Contrary to popular assumptions , German banks are preferred by criminals for money-laundering purposes because of their notoriously cavalier attitude towards the origins of their customers ' finances . |
| 9 | Others have specialized in insuring only the more hair-raising elements of their colleagues ' risks , which is a recipe for wealth when times are good and bankruptcy at other times . |
| 10 | Similarly , the narrator 's persistent burrowing into the unarticulated zones of her characters ' stores of knowledge about themselves indicates a certain disregard for their psychological integrity , a hollowing out of their ‘ roundness ’ . |
| 11 | Twelve of the youngest were found still wrapped in the charred bones of their mothers ' arms . |
| 12 | Robert Smillie , who became the leader of the Miners ' Federation , told the 1911 conference : " I think it is a shame and a disgrace that the lives of our miners ' wives , from four in the morning until 11 o'clock at night should be one long day of slavery . " |
| 13 | The way in which firms form their expectations of their rivals ' choices . |
| 14 | They stored the entire contents of his parents ' Middlesbrough home in their warehouse , handing everything over on his marriage in 1966 . |
| 15 | By the time the towers of his parents ' manor house appeared , the rider leading the way had begun to cough . |
| 16 | On a fine mid-morning , the water at Sconser is glowingly clear , a kind of northern coral sea , and with boats bobbing on moorings near the back-gardens of their owners ' cottages ; a few lobster pots , a net drying in the light sunshine . |
| 17 | By duties I mean the responsibilities of which teachers ' work is composed . |
| 18 | Put another , they find that lionesses with young can tell the difference between the roars of their cubs ' fathers and those of unfamiliar males . |
| 19 | Until relatively recently , oligopoly theory was typically presented as a collection of models each based on a particular ad hoc set of assumptions about firms ' perceptions of their rivals ' reactions to their own choices of prices or outputs . |
| 20 | Ironically , they began as buskers , working the same Irish streets that now offer up a hundred and one variations of their roots ' music . |
| 21 | Another interesting point in biographical/historical work is the use made by later writers of their subjects ' own diaries and records . |
| 22 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 23 | A former financial consultant who lost almost two million pounds of his clients ' money has been found guilty of seven charges of theft and fraud . |
| 24 | ( Why , for instance , the widespread horror of miscegenation and the almost universal belief among whites that ‘ half-breeds ’ inherited precisely the worst features of their parents ' races ? ) |
| 25 | Companies operating in a competitive environment have always been interested in details of their competitors ' performance , and the operation of market forces ensures that those that fail to match their competitors also fail to survive . |
| 26 | ( See page 158 for details of our readers ' event on 12 June . ) |
| 27 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | Nithard does so , however , while the author of a curious single annal for 830 – 1 , tacked onto the Prior Metz Annals ( the last entry otherwise was for 805 ) makes Judith the central figure in the story , and explains the 830 rebellion in terms of her stepsons ' hostility to her and her " very goodlooking son Charles " who " they feared might succeed as heir in his father 's realm " . |
| 29 | Its historical and current popularity with whites is accountable in terms of its members ' conformity to the image of the black man as physically adept but lacking in the intellectual equipment to harness his skill to firm objectives . |
| 30 | Growing up is hard to do , when the terms of your parents ' will keeps you in a perpetual state of childhood . |