Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the company is a parent or subsidiary undertaking or where the total directors ' emoluments ( including pension contributions ) is £60,000 or more , the following should be disclosed : emoluments of chairman emoluments of highest paid director if they exceed the emoluments of the chairman the number of directors whose emoluments fall within rising bands of £5,000 . |
| 2 | Where the company is a parent or subsidiary undertaking or where the total directors ' emoluments ( including pension contributions ) is £60,000 or more , disclose the number of directors waiving emoluments and the total amount ( including pension contributions ) thereof . |
| 3 | Currently , the TUC 's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives ' courses , not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues . |
| 4 | In the 1940s Ewan McColl , the folksinger , and Joan Littlewood , the playwright and theatre director , recorded an old Dales lead-miner singing a song called " Fourpence a Day " which tells more truthfully than the industrial archaeologists ' sometimes ebullient picture of the grandeur of Victorian enterprise , the real benefits of lead-mining for the many — simply hardship and poverty . |
| 5 | His claims for communications were , in fact , much more modest than the English lecturers ' claims for English . |
| 6 | Were the gay group 's " control " dreams also more sexually charged than the medical students ' ? |
| 7 | What I 'm trying to say is that er Notts County supporters have got ta watch out for the other English teams ' scores rather than the Italian teams ' scores . |
| 8 | These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers ' scapegoat , the rapacious landlords . |
| 9 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 10 | GOOD news slips quickly from the world 's consciousness , so the United Nations ' extraordinary and unexpected achievement in Cambodia looms less large in the public mind than does the grand failure in Bosnia . |
| 11 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 12 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 13 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 14 | If the radical criminologists ' assumptions are correct , then the figures for the second half of the 19th century might probably show the opposite from that which they do ’ ( Emsley , 1988 , p. 42 ) . |
| 15 | Since Vreeland 's death in the mid-1980s , the Costume Institute lost some of its high profile , but if the new curators ' proposed shows are any indication , visitors will be given done focus rather than broad overviews . |
| 16 | If the clearing banks ' balances are above target — that is , if the final clearing on the previous day left the clearers with balances at the Bank above those which they desire to keep in order to meet day-to-day requirements — then there will be a corresponding easing of the market 's cash position . |
| 17 | It had jeopardized the government coalition , because the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( FKgP ) for a long time had been unwilling to make concessions which compromised the commitment in its electoral programme to full restitution [ see p. 37790 ; 37975 ] . |
| 18 | Expanding supermarket chains preferred the white breeds because the plucked birds ' sin was clean and white , as opposed to the speckled skin of bronze- or black-feathered turkeys . |
| 19 | On the contrary it is complementary to them in the sense that its comparative advantage rests with analyses of secular economic developments whereas the existing models ' comparative advantage rests with the short-term developments . |
| 20 | Around 38 per cent of seats nationwide went to independent candidates , while the Polish Peasants ' Party performed best of the national political parties , with around 6.5 per cent of seats . |
| 21 | Interest charges became unbearable for many , while the co-operative workers ' existing homes — which were supposed to help pay off the loans — remained stubbornly unsold . |
| 22 | ( The chairman of the special committee of the German Bundestag , Günter Verheugen , also described the UK 's presidency of the EC as " a downright disaster " in comments on Nov. 20 , while the German Farmers ' Association ( DBV ) had criticized the EC for bowing to " massive pressure " from the USA . ) |
| 23 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 24 | From the liberal wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party , Fokin was regarded as a compromise candidate and was elected unopposed in the third ballot ( he had re-entered the contest after withdrawing from the second ballot ) , after the communist hardliners ' candidate , Aleksandr Bulyanda , had been persuaded to stand down . |
| 25 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 26 | The debate on lowballing and reducing prices will soon move to another stage when the Chartered Accountants ' Joint Ethics Committee publishes the follow-up to the discussion paper , Predatory Pricing . |
| 27 | When the national selectors ' viewpoint was put to him , Watt took up the challenge : ‘ I was happy to give it a real bash . |
| 28 | When the Social Services ' Committee raised concerns about basic definitions for collaborative working and about the apparent overlap between the care programme approach and care management , the Secretary of State for Health referred them to Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond — Policy Guidance . |
| 29 | The head-on clash with Kuwait , which has been allowed to produce oil without restriction since the end of the Gulf war , was seen by many OPEC observers as a rehearsal for the more difficult problems arising when the United Nations ' embargo on Iraq is lifted . |
| 30 | The Greens were still arguing over whether the time had come to loosen principle a little and elect a leader , a public face , perhaps Sara Parkin , the International Liaison Secretary of the UK Greens as well as the European Greens ' co-ordination co-secretary . |