Example sentences of "of a [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Property and equipment costs increased to £391,946 and this aspect of expenditure is the subject of a consultant 's report which is investigating the Council 's present property requirements , commitments and costs with a view to providing future options . |
2 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
3 | Economically speaking , then , it seems plausible that vampire economics conform to the rules of a Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
4 | This is part and parcel of a salesman 's life . |
5 | In Section 8.1 it was explained that the determination of a currency 's exchange rate value is in principle broadly the same as the establishment of the price for any other financial instrument , commodity , or good . |
6 | Any pupil doing a project on any aspect of a charity 's work or some particular issue should feel free to use any of this material . |
7 | These Regulations , which are now in force , deal with the Charity Commissioners ' appointment of a receiver and manager of a charity 's property and affairs following an inquiry under s 6 of the Charities Act 1960 ( as amended by the Charities Act 1992 ) . |
8 | There were the long-handled wooden shovels used for transferring the food into sacks , and at the end of the aisle there rose , like the bulk of a god 's statue in a temple , a wooden hopper , its side bound with bronze . |
9 | But the melody , apparently , had been the song of a gentleman 's music club . |
10 | To some extent advertising was something of a gentleman 's game . |
11 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
12 | Most of a computer 's memory is RAM . |
13 | But the advent of almost universal programming in high-level languages alters the requirements of a computer 's instruction set . |
14 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
15 | It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer 's instruction set . |
16 | So if increasing the speed of a computer 's components is limited by the speed of light , how will one ever build increasingly faster computers ? |
17 | In the future much of a computer 's Supervisor may be in microcode : see for example the microprogrammed operating system functions on the experimental VENUS System ( Liskov 1972 ) . |
18 | And he knew without doubt that the door must not be opened ; that it was a door of a Pandora 's Box . |
19 | Every picture of the broad purposes of a school 's plan is drawn from a particular viewpoint . |
20 | Heads as they appoint new staff have the chance to turn the long-term realization of a school 's plan into a shared reality , but the same commitment can also be won from those teachers who are at a school when a new head arrives . |
21 | The quality of management planning will , therefore , be one of the critical determinants of a school 's success . |
22 | It is always necessary to urge caution in the interpretation of examination results and to remind ourselves that they are only one measure of a school 's success . |
23 | However the benefit of having the view of fellow professionals who are qualified to make an assessment of a school 's performance would seem to offer many advantages . |
24 | Effective school management uses external initiatives as a prompt to and support for the logical next stage of a school 's development . |
25 | The criticism that Elliott and Ebbutt make of this approach is three fold : values underlying judgements are not revealed ; the analysis is atomistic and ignores the inter-relationships among features of a school 's activities ; and areas are inevitably ignored . |
26 | Each child registered may well bring the school an additional £500 — this extra money forming a significant part of a school 's funding . |
27 | Inescapably , they must retain such things as overall financial control , a determination of the size of a school 's teaching and ancillary staff , and major decisions about buildings , although many conclusions on these matters are reached only after an ebb and flow of consultation and representation . |
28 | In a case study of a school 's discussions of an option scheme Hurman noted that they were really about the status of various subject departments , and that discussions on the core curriculum ignored what lay beneath the subject label . |
29 | All major sports would like to be the centre of a school 's curriculum . |
30 | The examination of a school 's curriculum should take account of what children do and also of what they learn from what they do . |