Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [noun pl] ' " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Companies Act 1985 , requires a general policy of disclosure of insiders ' interests . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | It is not thought likely that this would give rise to any greater risk of breach of confidentiality of clients ' affairs than that involved with the rest of the staff . |
| 17 | An important part of the course is the examination of examples of students ' use of English , both spoken and written . |
| 18 | Upwards of £12m of tax-payers ' money has been invested in these new forests and at present , in Caithness , forestry has provided only three full-time jobs for local people ; at the cost of the greatest act of environmental vandalism perpetrated in Scotland this century . |
| 19 | In his opening address to the Supreme Soviet , Gorbachev admitted his responsibility for the coup in having appointed conservatives to head the organizations which controlled troops , and for " liberalism and indulgence " , despite warnings of conservatives ' discontent . |
| 20 | Flicking through the travel brochures the browser is confronted by an astonishing number of photographs of whales ' flukes . |
| 21 | Watching actors in animal costume making their sophisticated jokes was like proof of anthropologists ' statements , as typified by Frazer in that same conclusion to The Dying God , where he stated that serious rites had become idle amusement , mummeries , and childish games . |
| 22 | Museologically laid out in a grand salon with painted ceiling , Renaissance-style fireplace and chairs , the guns are seen to line the walls in racks , with trophies of stags ' heads above . |
| 23 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |
| 24 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 25 | 1.25 In our first Report , we included an appendix with samples of pupils ' work which illustrated some early stages in the development of writing . |
| 26 | If , however , estimates are made which take into account need for medical care , then the association between use of doctors ' services and socio-economic group becomes stronger . |
| 27 | It issued a strike threat in support of demands for rises in pensions and wages , a programme for dealing with unemployment and in defence of workers ' interests in the context of privatization . |
| 28 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 29 | A solicitor in receipt of directors ' fees from his family company , however , would be under no duty to account to his co-partners in the absence of express agreement to that effect . |
| 30 | The ideal solution here would be to shift effective power in matters of auditors ' appointment and remuneration from the directors to the shareholders . |