Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No credit is given for trusts ' abilities to enhance returns through gearing . |
| 2 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 3 | HEALTH AUTHORITIES will be expected to adhere to the ‘ firm ’ budgets they are to be given for patients ' drugs , Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , said yesterday . |
| 4 | Ideally joint guidelines should be developed for parents ' evenings . |
| 5 | She took a BSc honours degree in Sociology at London University , worked as a community counsellor for one-parent families in Camden and was on the literature panel of the Arts Council until their decision to return to the Government some money designated for writers ' bursaries led her to resign in disgust . |
| 6 | Its two handles , flattened , curled like pigs ' ears , were striped in yellow and blue . |
| 7 | Police and army vehicles were interspersed with civilians ' traps and tradesmen 's carts , the latter having to submit to careful scrutiny before being allowed to enter the Barracks square . |
| 8 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 9 | These have come from employers ' organisations , individual companies , trade unions and other organisations , and from individual people . |
| 10 | Prices tend to be omitted from publishers ' catalogues ( or given in a separate leaflet which becomes detached from the main catalogue ) . |
| 11 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 12 | The lowest earners , seldom included in employers ' pension provision and among whom women predominated , were excluded from the graduated scheme . |
| 13 | The Director of Studies expressed an interest in how much three dimensional ( 3D ) work was included in pupils ' experience and was dissatisfied with what he was told . |
| 14 | 8.3.2 the date ( if any ) upon which the Premises are relet This provision is frequently included in guarantors ' covenants , probably to cover the position where the landlord has no objection to taking back the premises with a view to a future letting , but in the meantime to secure some form of rental income . |
| 15 | Capital instruments which do not contain an obligation to transfer economic benefits should be reported within shareholders ' funds . |
| 16 | The [ draft ] FRS requires that all shares are reported within shareholders ' funds . |
| 17 | The [ draft ] FRS therefore requires all shares to be reported within shareholders ' funds . |
| 18 | Warrants are also required to be reported within shareholders ' funds , provided they do not contain an obligation to transfer economic benefits ( in which case they would not be within the definition of warrants contained in the [ draft ] FRS ) . |
| 19 | In accordance with the requirements of the [ draft ] FRS , AMPS should be reported within shareholders ' funds as non-equity shares and included in the amount attributable to non-equity shares which is shown on the face of the balance sheet ( paragraph 34 ) . |
| 20 | For this reason , the FRED proposes that warrants be reported within shareholders ' funds . |
| 21 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 22 | Grains have a calcium-phosphorus imbalance , and if calcium is not added to horses ' food , it is leached from their bones instead . |
| 23 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 24 | Alternatives would be offered in the curriculum plan but there would also be opportunity for many other alternatives hopefully designed at teachers ' workshops . |
| 25 | Females are attracted by males ' displays and go to them for mating . |
| 26 | In addition , tax breaks are promised for enterprises owned by artists ' unions and associations as long as they are operating for their prescribed purpose . |
| 27 | Start by looking at the stocks carried by builders ' merchants in your area . |
| 28 | The slogans on buildings round the square and carried by workers ' groups reflected his new thinking . |
| 29 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 30 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |