Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part , this is to prevent former high-ranking IRS and Treasury Department officials handling foreign firms ' transfer pricing cases . |
| 2 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 3 | Understanding international competitors ' behaviour may depend crucially on understanding the way they finance their business . |
| 4 | When they start runnin' those muvvers ' meetin 's they put a lot o' nonsense in people 's 'eads . |
| 5 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 6 | Medium sized firms would thus have difficulty keeping institutional investors ' business . |
| 7 | This lifted investors ' spirits immensely , as well as filling well-informed politicians ' campaign coffers . |
| 8 | A 21-year-old Liverpool man serving seven years ' detention for robbing women working in two Southampton shops was refused leave by the Criminal Appeal Court in London to appeal against his conviction and sentence . |
| 9 | Thus , if the total award is large enough ( say , reflecting three years ' employment and loss of salary and contract benefits for that length of time ) , an ex gratia payment will not reduce your former employer 's legal liability towards you at all . |
| 10 | It is probably the comparative smoothness , quietness and reponsiveness of the XUD that is overcoming British drivers ' prejudice against diesels . |
| 11 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 12 | Look , she said , he 's left , bolted , owing three months ' back rent . |
| 13 | All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years ' improvement to bring about secondary education for all . |
| 14 | Some companies are also reported to be paying several months ' salary in advance of the election . |
| 15 | Alison Cleland , a development worker with the Children 's Rights Development Unit , said that existing legislation had been shown to be completely ineffective in safeguarding young workers ' welfare . |
| 16 | Where it studies young and old subjects , it commonly implies their inferior status by investigating young subjects ' development towards adult thinking and feeling , and old subjects ' loss of these faculties . |
| 17 | There was a rapid increase in the number of primary school children , with very overcrowded primary classes , and governments pushed all the available teachers and capital into primary education , limiting local authorities ' right to provide nursery education even when they wished to . |
| 18 | Top : These Apple Snails are not mating — they are , in fact merely grazing each others ' shell . |
| 19 | Available from Abbey National ( Overseas ) are Offshore Plus , an instant access sterling account ; Offshore 90 also in sterling but requiring 90 days ' notice of withdrawal ; and Offshore Double Eagle , a US dollar deposit account where withdrawals are subject to 30 days ' notice . |
| 20 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 21 | New Line has ploughed its profits from ‘ Nightmare on Elm Street ’ and ‘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ into buying other firms ' film libraries and setting up a distribution system . |
| 22 | Axeen rewrote the material that she used in her course ‘ Teaching the use of the library to undergraduates ’ in fourteen units of instruction , each requiring two hours ' use of the terminal . |
| 23 | Within the box , apart from the seemingly obligatory chunk of pink polystyrene , lies a disk containing seven games ' worth of code . |
| 24 | Additional research investigates the extent to which the visual cortex is functioning at birth , using newborn infants ' ability to discriminate between stimuli that differ in orientation alone as the index of cortical functioning . |
| 25 | Peers are asked if they wish to be granted ‘ leave of absence ’ and , if they do not reply in the negative , are expected not to attend without giving 30 days ' notice of intention to do so . |
| 26 | But when it comes to defending Smashing Pumpkins ' tendency to write eight-minute epics he makes an r'n'r analogy : ‘ You can either f— for four minutes or sometimes you f— for an hour . ’ |
| 27 | Fujitsu and Toshiba have followed Hitachi and IBM Japan in cutting top executives ' pay following a weakening in consumer electronics and computer markets and a slide in profits . |
| 28 | Following this Act , bus operators are free to provide any services they wish , subject only to giving six weeks ' notice , and to meeting the same safety standards as previously . |
| 29 | In November Waterstones had declared that it had terminated the concession , giving six months ' notice . |
| 30 | Three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teachers ' salary costs basically will fall down given that we 've had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year , coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with . |