Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares and warrants should be reported as part of shareholders ' funds . |
| 2 | Such an aggregate will only equal the value of total output if those goods which are produced but not sold are also included — this item , which is called ‘ net changes in stocks and work in progress ’ , is normally counted as part of firms ' investment spending ( which is logical since such goods are for future rather than current consumption ) . |
| 3 | Only 20 per cent , however , were willing to assume any responsibility for payment of teachers ' salaries . |
| 4 | In the case of a demand for payment of solicitors ' costs , one of the circumstances will be the date when the bill was served and the client 's attitude towards taxation of the bill . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many more people would be liable for payment of employees ' national insurance contributions if the atypical work directive were adopted . |
| 6 | The newly formed Catering Committee is expected early next month to consider two consultants ' reports on the architectural feasibility and management implications of converting the premises of the former St. Stephen 's tavern into a refreshment facility for groups of Members ' visitors . |
| 7 | For supporters of women 's ordination it 's the culmination of years of campaigning . |
| 8 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 9 | but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things |
| 10 | The Teacher Placement Service continues to aim to provide placements in business for 10% of teachers per annum . |
| 11 | The 702 and 739bp gel-purified PCR products were linked through their complementary 21nt tails to generate an env gene fragment incorporating a SfiI/NotI cloning site : the two fragments were mixed and subjected to three cycles ( 94°C-1min , 40°C-1min , 72°C-2min ) followed by 17 further PCR cycles ( 94°C-1min , 60°C-1min , 72°C-2min ) after addition of ologonucleotides envseq7 and Bglenvrev ( 5'-TAA TCA CTA CAG ATC TAG ACT GAC ATG GCG CGT-3' , complementary to MoMLV pol nucleotides 5766 to 5785 and with the 5' tail incorporating a BglII restriction site ) . |
| 12 | Nowadays , about a decade after publication of Children 's Minds , developmentalists write about children with a far better understanding of the importance of paying heed to children 's abilities in everyday contexts as well as experimental ones . |
| 13 | The implication is — again drawing on the ‘ children 's single-sex peer groups ’ argument — that all-women talk might be a kind of bottom line for descriptions of women 's speech styles ; this is the ‘ natural ’ case , existing prior to and outside the power effects observable when women talk to men . |
| 14 | The Court heard that one of the directors had acted while an undischarged bankrupt , aided and abetted by the others , and that they had caused the company to trade without reasonable prospect of payment of creditors ' claims , to retain Crown monies to finance insolvent trading and to abuse banking procedures . |
| 15 | Ward learning is however a gradual process , and the student can easily overlook the value of discussions of patients ' progress , the care supervised by a senior nurse and the opportunity to observe experienced people at work . |
| 16 | In this case the defendants , who owned two coaches making international journeys , were accused of contraventions of articles 6(2) ( 4 ) and 7 of the European Agreement concerning the work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport ( AETR ) and Section 96(11A) of the Transport Act 1968 as amended . |
| 17 | Microbial air sampling , which is technically difficult and only occasionally useful in establishing the source of outbreaks of legionnaires ' disease , has shown low concentrations of Legionella pneumophila in aerosol : 0.02 colony-forming units per litre of aerosol around a cooling tower and 0.19 colony-forming units per litre of air in shower aerosol . |
| 18 | What about the range of concessions of pensioners erm you know , free tea and coffee ? |
| 19 | And although the arrangements made at Clovis 's death certainly set a precedent , it did not ensure the succession of all Merovingian males , despite Gregory of Tours 's famous dictum that " all boys born of kings are called king 's sons " . |
| 20 | The Companies Act 1985 , requires a general policy of disclosure of insiders ' interests . |
| 21 | The major determinants of expectations of assets ' earning potential are ( a ) expectations about changes in security prices and interest rates , and ( b ) expectations about changes in the exchange rate . |
| 22 | To make life difficult , ‘ Japanese ’ or ‘ Japon ’ vellum — beloved of producers of editions de luxe — is not vellum at all , but a smooth , glossy-surfaced.paper with a yellowish tint . |
| 23 | Professor William Miller of Glasgow University , author of a number of studies of voters ' behaviour at elections , believes formal advertising has relatively little effect on how people vote . |
| 24 | So much so , that the Commission continues its backing of the HDMAC analogue transmission standard for HDTV , regardless of its being overtaken by more advanced digital technology and despite broadcasters and telecommunications trade associations lobbying against it , and a plethora of industry pundits accusing the EC of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers ' money . |
| 25 | No doubt Labour 's answer would be training , but the Government are already pumping billions of pounds of taxpayers ' money into training , in addition to the £20 billion that is spent annually by the private sector . |
| 26 | For a survey of theories of women 's position see Barrett ( 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Whereas the proposals that they 're making is only those rights which may be lost because of misappropriation of assets er would be compensated by the compensation fund . |
| 28 | The company magazine is full of details of employees ' long service awards ( next to the details of how to enter the annual ‘ Miss Littlewoods ' contest ) . |
| 29 | Even the exacting Mary Crawford sees it as a desirable prize , ‘ a park , a real park five miles round , a spacious modern-built house , so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen 's seats in the kingdom ’ ; the absence of family portraits does not deter her . |
| 30 | By paying particular attention to texts and images created by women in the visual arts and performance as well as in literature , the book goes some way towards making up for the lack of awareness of women 's art . |