Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a BSc honours degree in Sociology at London University , worked as a community counsellor for one-parent families in Camden and was on the literature panel of the Arts Council until their decision to return to the Government some money designated for writers ' bursaries led her to resign in disgust . |
| 2 | Research based on self-builders ' site insurance premiums suggests an average build cost ( excluding land ) of £60,000 . |
| 3 | On Aug. 19 the first of 23,108 prisoners were released from prison as a result of a presidential pardon issued on Peasants ' Day , July 7 . |
| 4 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |
| 5 | A given reduction has a comparatively small proportionate effect upon deposit liabilities ; the same reduction applied to bankers ' deposits ( called ‘ operational balances ’ in table 3.3 ) will reduce them by a very large proportion . |
| 6 | She was damp , she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt , her hair hung in rats ' tails . |
| 7 | Edwards declined to comment after a lengthy board meeting at Old Trafford , but it is believed the information in question related to players ' contracts and salaries , as well as other financial information about the club . |
| 8 | But it can also be argued that the employer 's influence is small , compared with the influence exercised by individuals ' education , occupation , and political affiliation , all of which are matters decided outside of employment . |
| 9 | They travelled by a short stairway from the morning room , up into a narrow corridor carved with horses ' heads . |
| 10 | The X Business Group is organising ‘ X and Beyond , ’ a major X industry conference focused on customers ' perceptions of X and client/server computing . |
| 11 | Calculating any extra resource using an index based on doctors ' own perceptions of what creates work seems the more valid approach as these will presumably be factors deterring doctors from working in underprivileged areas or causing them to limit access so as to avoid overwork . |
| 12 | In reviewing the measures that have been introduced in the past few years , my right hon. Friend referred to carriers ' liability . |
| 13 | Total Quality Teamwork ( TQT ) is the name given to INROADS ' latest initiative to embrace modern management practices . |
| 14 | The Alliance campaign , with the differing emphasis posed by Liberals ' David Steel , who was of the centre-left , and the Social Democrat , David Owen , who contemplated a possible coalition with the Tories , was a disaster . |
| 15 | Like the previous blue glossy document , this blue glossy document contains Conservative party propaganda published at taxpayers ' expense . |
| 16 | The general pattern established by blacks ' involvement in sport in the last two hundred years is that they have excelled in all those areas within their cultural reach and such excellence is repeated generation alter generation . |
| 17 | There is a great deal of money to be made from income generated by composers ' royalties and fees as well as the earnings from performing and recording . |
| 18 | Infection with Toxoplasma gondii can be acquired from soil contaminated by cats ' faeces and by consumption of undercooked meat and unpasteurised goats ' milk . |
| 19 | However , even the smallest cylinder stocked by plumbers ' merchants was far too big for this application — what was needed was a small , neat cylinder , that would fit snugly under the wash basin unit . |
| 20 | The International Research and Information Service ( IRIS ) , which provides comprehensive market information tailored to clients ' requirements , dealt with 404 enquiries during the year . |
| 21 | The International Research and Information Service ( IRIS ) , which provides comprehensive market information tailored to clients ' requirements , dealt with 295 enquiries during the year . |
| 22 | the solution to the underclass lies in stricter enforcement of the criminal laws , in giving tenants a stake and a say in public housing , in educational innovation opposed by teachers ' unions , in changing welfare laws so that a baby is not a ticket for an apartment separate from mom 's . |
| 23 | The decision on whether or not we lend to you will normally be based on a credit scoring system supplemented with details of your financial position provided by you , or with information obtained from bankers ' references of credit reference agencies . |
| 24 | I have received representations from various sources on the subject of a statutory payroll levy related to employers ' training expenditure . |
| 25 | Traditionally , BR has operated a priority system based on trains ' speeds , with express passenger services at the top of the list , followed by suburban passenger , parcels , express freight and so on . |
| 26 | Students of local history may very occasionally need to take into account the difference between Greenwich Mean Time and Summer Time , but those who are researching the histories of maritime ports from which merchant or royal naval vessels sailed will almost certainly have to pay regard to the system of reckoning found in ships ' log-books , particularly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | These forecasts will be based on information on the number of children in a school augmented by headteachers ' estimates . |
| 28 | Reading experiences expressed by this node are characterised , in ordinary language , by the total dependence of the reader 's satisfaction on whether he or she thinks that the author has enjoyed writing the text , on the basis additionally that the reader thinks that the author is satisfied by the enjoyment gained by readers ' interpretative efforts . |
| 29 | The Chairman for the evening — Mr R. Mulford — welcomed all present to an evening which was to be an informal discussion centred on Members ' reminiscences of the BCR in its working days . |
| 30 | Ban urged on firms ' HIV tests |