Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Consideration should be given to the possible institution of a mechanism for the defence of citizens ' rights as regards Community matters ( " ombudsman " — a Danish proposal ) … " |
| 2 | The outcome of this project will be a computer simulation routine usable on standard microcomputers designed to assess the response of consumers ' expenditure and VAT revenue to changes in VAT rates . |
| 3 | All chairmen were social class I , the majority of employers ' representatives were social class II and over 80 per cent of employees ' representatives fell within social classes II and III ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 5 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 6 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 7 | Differences in provision between one authority and the next can be wide ( eg on capitation allowances , the funding of teachers ' centres , off-site visits by school groups ) . |
| 8 | Multinational publishers also made a considerable contribution and investment to the process of subject curriculum development , in co-operation with institutes and centres , through the funding of writers ' workshops in Science , Mathematics and later , Social Studies and in the production , on numerous occasions , of trial editions , particularly of language courses . |
| 9 | Personalised design for parts of the core training programme overcomes the two problems of differing regional resources and the variety of entrants ' experiences . |
| 10 | The direction of subjects ' lateral eye movements has been correlated with EEG alpha activity , consistent left movers showing a relatively greater degree of alpha activity ( Bakan and Svorad , 1969 ) . |
| 11 | The women claim that the existence of commoners ' rights invalidates the defence bylaws under which thousands have been fined or imprisoned for trespassing inside the base . |
| 12 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |
| 13 | The criminal activity of these older users was in the main restricted to offences relating to the possession and supply of the drugs themselves and the burglary of chemists ' premises to obtain drugs . |
| 14 | The swell of responses seemed alone to fill the crisp air , even the rasp of soldiers ' boots on the paving-stones went unheard . |
| 15 | Inefficient and ineffective note-making methods often lie at the heart of students ' inability to realise their potential . |
| 16 | He also studied the coloration of snails ' shells in different local environments . |
| 17 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 18 | There were no unions or guilds or other associations for they were not needed ; our employers were fair-minded and trustworthy , but the greatest incentive of all was the fact that , as reporters , we enjoyed the smell of printers ' ink as much as the actor is supposed to enjoy the smell of grease-paint — we loved our jobs and would usually much rather be chasing down ‘ a hot story ’ than eating . |
| 19 | In the case of magistrates ' courts the amount is subject to a maximum of £2,000 on any one order . |
| 20 | I would be interested to know how you think company meetings by telephone — particularly in the case of directors ' meetings — should be evidenced in the minute book . |
| 21 | 36 Safeguards in the case of daughters ' inheritance |
| 22 | The advantage of plumbers ' merchants is that they stock some of the more unusual fittings and will often be able to give you advice . |
| 23 | In charting the progress of fans ' careers , two types of data have been used . |
| 24 | By now the whole ground was resounding to the lilt of Rovers ' battle hymn of ‘ Goodnight Irene ’ from the terraces . |
| 25 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 26 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 27 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 28 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 29 | For criminal law practitioners , good practice standards were published in January in the Magistrates ' Court Guide , a praised new publication which gives practical advice on every aspect of the preparation of magistrates ' court cases . |
| 30 | The study will provide recommendations on how to make tendering effective , in particular in relation to contract specification , the organisation of the tendering process and the monitoring of contractors ' performance . |