Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
2 | After initial support from the Department of Employment , Compact has raised funds for four years ' work from Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council , Liverpool City Council and the private sector . |
3 | There were , there were two erm boarding schools for Methodist ministers ' children . |
4 | This agreement grew out of a proposal put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev as a compromise between the demands for individual states ' armies and unified CIS conventional forces . |
5 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
6 | Further , there are underlying themes that are relevant to the subsequent discussion of possible models for general practitioners ' involvement in purchasing . |
7 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
8 | This bulk billing , as it is called , is becoming increasingly common , with 70% of bills for general practitioners ' services settled accordingly . |
9 | In a broadcast on Aug. 19 , he said that from Oct. 1 , privatization vouchers for 10,000 roubles ' worth of state property would be distributed free to every citizen [ see also p. 39056 ] . |
10 | ACRI and Cray will convert applications for both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
11 | And perhaps , though he doubted she 'd agree , they could sit once more in the back seats for old times ' sake . |
12 | But hit-and-miss targets were increasingly replaced by sophisticated forecasts for individual industries ' markets based on aims for the overall growth of the economy and its division into private consumption , government spending and so forth . |
13 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
14 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
15 | Does he agree that with the massive increases in salaries for those bodies ' chairmen and the ridiculous spend on advertising that we are witnessing , those companies can well afford to drop the standing charges ? |
16 | The association would like to see minimum standards for visiting managers ' accommodation on the sides of pitches . |
17 | It suggested that all countries had strong mutual interests in providing growing markets for each others ' products , in security of supplies and in a more stable monetary system . |
18 | In particular , the partitioning requirements for governing bodies ' accommodation which will be provided on a cellular basis need to be determined now . |
19 | At the Lincoln parliament of 1316 , with Lancaster at the head of the council , a campaign in Scotland was planned and the proposal to levy one man from each vill was revived , with the vill responsible for wages for sixty days ' service . |
20 | First , it was not a strike over wages — although a wage claim was later added to the terms on which the Union was prepared to return to work ; it was about the future of the coalmining industry in Great Britain , and in particular was a protest against a plan for extensive pit closures with consequences for both miners ' jobs and the future of their communities . |
21 | The top seven , all Tories apart from Mr Jones , have the most chance of success , since business managers have set aside seven Fridays for private members ' bills . |
22 | The company has also added Frame Relay capabilities to its existing Ascom Timeplex Time/LAN family of local network and wide area network products , as well as introducing the Frame Server System , which adds Frame Relay capabilities for other vendors ' T1 and E1 multiplexers , routers and bridges . |
23 | Section 26 gives the Commission power to undertake studies designed to enable it to make recommendations for improving authorities ' ‘ economy , efficiency and effectiveness ’ . |