Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a growing trend towards greater protection for journalists ' sources in Europe , according to Ms D'Souza . |
| 2 | The role which the tutor should adopt is that of a sounding board for students ' ideas and suggestions . |
| 3 | Several other Scottish education authorities — including Dumfries and Galloway , Highland , Tayside and Strathclyde — have already developed strong anti-smoking policies , though none is thought to have rejected the case for smokers ' areas . |
| 4 | Nutt was noncommittal about riders ' protests . |
| 5 | Editor , — Michael Dewey 's plea for authors ' rights brought back painful memories , for we have recently suffered the writer 's equivalent of torture at the hands of the editors of a journal published by the BMA . |
| 6 | Some trade unions argued that free time was as important as perhaps even more important than — money in the struggle for workers ' rights . |
| 7 | In the case of secular centres , most burghs had strips of land leading back from the market-place for burghers ' houses , vegetable plots and space for livestock . |
| 8 | We will ease the transition from the present wasteful and inefficient price support mechanism to market prices and direct support for farmers ' incomes to achieve environmental and social goals , to be funded by savings made from the present intervention payment system . |
| 9 | Mr Maxwell said that his alterations — which he would make for publication in his newspapers — were to substitute the term ombudsman for readers ' representatives and to widen the clause in the code of practice which refers to non-payment of criminals to include those benefiting from a criminal act . |
| 10 | In this model the curriculum for teachers ' colleges and the examination system for both schools and colleges are closely linked with school curriculum development . |
| 11 | First , on the ’ liability for others ' acts ’ point , the Bill contains safeguards — as my hon. and learned Friend knows from his study of it — when the accused can show that the aggravating event occurred before he committed his basic offence or that he was not near the vehicle at the time . |
| 12 | And manager Ray McHale is to get a £50,000 boost for players ' wages at a time when most clubs are planning drastic cut-backs . |
| 13 | A tension between officials ' perceptions of equity and efficacy is , for them , a familiar dilemma . |
| 14 | Government industrial policy could make all the difference between a demoralising defeat for workers ' initiatives taken at enterprise level , and the development of inspiring examples of ‘ workers ’ plans ' for socially useful production , popular accountability of management and workers ' self-management . |
| 15 | There was no significant association between teachers ' years in the profession and any of the attitudes represented by these factors . |
| 16 | The vehicles will be given to the National Association of Boys ' Clubs and will tour run-down inner-city areas . |
| 17 | Now , by a quirk of history , the machinery for carrying out such schemes of training in drama was not to be found in normal educational administration , but in the huge network of social services administered by the National Council of Social Services , a voluntary body financed by Carnegie Trust which since 1919 had co-ordinated the work of various national organisations such as the Village Drama Society , County Rural Community Councils , British Drama League , the Federation of Women 's Institutes , the National Association of Boys ' Clubs , Townswomen 's Guilds , the Workers ' Educational Association , County Youth Committees , the Standing Conference of Drama Associations and Hull University 's Extra-Mural Department , the only university to take interest in Community Drama . |
| 18 | The institutes which began to open in London in the late 1850s appear to have recruited from among the lower-middle class , though Waldo McGillicuddy Eagar , a young Edwardian club worker ( later to be a leading figure in the National Association of Boys ' Clubs ) claimed that ‘ as anxiety about the working classes was intensified , some Youths ’ Institutes reached down from the middle classes to the poor , and increasingly diluted their formal educational programmes with recreational activities . |
| 19 | Johnnie buried himself in his work for Northamptonshire County Council , the National Association of Boys ' Clubs and his cattle farm . |
| 20 | OVER 200 of the North-East 's best young athletes will be battling it out in the Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs cross country championships at Aykley Heads , Durham , tomorrow writes FRANK JOHNSON . |
| 21 | MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland Harriers stole the show with all four individual winners and two team gold medals in yesterday 's Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs cross country championships at Aykley Heads , Durham . |
| 22 | The National Association of Boys ' Clubs refutes the allegations attributed to Miles Atkinson , the vice-chairman of the Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs , contained in the article . |
| 23 | The National Association of Boys ' Clubs refutes the allegations attributed to Miles Atkinson , the vice-chairman of the Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs , contained in the article . |
| 24 | I believe the statements alleged to have been made by Mr Atkinson do not reflect the views of the Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs . |
| 25 | As I hear the summons , I feel almost human , thinking of dentists ' offices , tumbrils , guillotines . |
| 26 | it encourages the perception of pupils ' attainments as being at one of a number of discrete ‘ levels ’ . |
| 27 | In the orchestration of this criticism , and in the curbing of local aristocrats who were quite unrestrained by royal power , no single factor was more important than the veneration of saints ' shrines at a local monastery . |
| 28 | The FASB rule applies only to assets held for trading ; the bulk of insurers ' assets are long-term investments , and so will continue to be shown at their historic value . |
| 29 | The reality is that we are conservative in our appreciation of others ' abilities and we are reticent and uncertain about our own . |
| 30 | From his vantage point in Worcester House he became involved in the speculative buying of soldiers ' bills , with which he made fifteen purchases of Crown land , mostly on behalf of other men . |