Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | An important part of the course is the examination of examples of students ' use of English , both spoken and written . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Flicking through the travel brochures the browser is confronted by an astonishing number of photographs of whales ' flukes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The ideal solution here would be to shift effective power in matters of auditors ' appointment and remuneration from the directors to the shareholders . |
| 16 | Until 1971 , dolphin mortality could be estimated only from analyses of vessels ' logbooks — and the figures are probably underestimates . |
| 17 | And this is just the latest episode in Kitchens Of Distinctions ' star trek across America . |
| 18 | Indeed GM 's Buick division has climbed to the top in surveys of customers ' satisfaction while its Cadillac division recently won a prestigious quality award . |
| 19 | This pattern was not found in two other countries of the same region , due among other things , perhaps , to differences in levels of mothers ' education . |
| 20 | Questions such as these can only be studied with information which includes details of employers ' policies alongside details of employees ' perceptions , attitudes and experience at work . |
| 21 | In this case the analysis indicated that , in terms of users ' needs , the proposed IPS should : |
| 22 | Such enormous cost in terms of taxpayers ' money , defendants ' and jurors ' time and livelihoods , and , in some cases , plaintiffs ' sanity , prompted Mr Justice Turner , the presiding judge in the Ward case , to criticise the current system of fraud trials and to suggest ways in which it could be improved . |
| 23 | This is so even if the alternative job offered involves a change in your terms of contract or is with an associated employer , such as another company which is controlled , in terms of shareholders ' voting power , by the same person or people who control the company that you work for . |
| 24 | This results in an explanation of gender and ‘ race ’ problems in schools in terms of teachers ' inability to use these cultural differences . |
| 25 | But on the whole , he has certainly historically , a pretty high rating in terms of viewers ' viewing . |
| 26 | The widespread influence of Ribble , Bowlby and Spitz , although it was supported by new , more permissive baby books such as Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care ( 1946 ) , can not be entirely explained in terms of parents ' reaction against the rigours of aseptic mothercraft . |
| 27 | Corman directed most of the picture but then had stop because union rules , to which he adhered religiously in terms of actors ' and technicians ' payments , made it impossible to continue with a fully fledged production team . |
| 28 | In that case we are still unclear how a ‘ meaning ’ account , in terms of actors ' choices within a set of rules , relates to a claim to have identified what ‘ really ’ moves them to particular actions . |
| 29 | Sickness absence is a big problem both in terms of lost productivity and cost and in terms of employees ' wellbeing . |
| 30 | The next most highly rated questions , in terms of pupils ' experience , were on computation or number concepts . |