Example sentences of "in [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1981 English House Condition Survey ( Department of the Environment 1982 ) supports the general urban-rural differences found in 1976 , although slight changes in surveyors ' classifications of district as rural , urban or conurbations make precise comparisons difficult . |
| 2 | It follows that one question doubtless uppermost in shareholders ' minds at this initial meeting will be price . |
| 3 | MOVEMENT IN SHAREHOLDERS ' FUNDS for the year ended 31st March 1993 |
| 4 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 5 | The incentives to industry included reductions in employers ' contributions to pensions and health insurance , the lifting of taxes on investment capital , and favourable export assistance . |
| 6 | The regular CBI surveys and the regular Department of Employment labour force survey show that over the 1980s — this is the answer to the hon. Member for Newport , East ( Mr. Hughes ) — there has been a consistent increase in employers ' commitment to training , even in this current recession . |
| 7 | However , it does appear that the notion of language teachers joining a profession with its own history does not figure largely in tutors ' conceptions of their work , that English tutors do not see ‘ language ’ as something requiring separate attention , and that all tutors tend to play down aspects of language policy or language in society . |
| 8 | The displacement model which has historically prevailed in schools ' responses to troublesome children has failed to show a satisfactory effectiveness either in terms of outcome for identified pupils or in terms of relieving pressure on teachers . |
| 9 | THE LEYS , who have been a considerable force in schools ' rugby in recent years , prospered on the Austrian tour to earn five wins and a couple of defeats from seven games . |
| 10 | Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) . |
| 11 | It also highlights significant regional variations , possibly reflecting a marked difference in schools ' approach to discipline . |
| 12 | To pinpoint single factors affecting inventories has proved difficult , although Kennedy ( 1986 ) notes that a modified stock-adjustment principle on the lines above helps explain changes in manufacturers ' inventories during much of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 13 | This wastes space , but the user will not be able to avoid such a shortcoming in manufacturers ' software by any other technique . |
| 14 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 15 | They were nurtured by Qaddafi 's rhetoric of individual autonomy ; they survived and became sources of inspiration in Libyans ' conflicts with their state . |
| 16 | But I expect there will be copies of the same tune on paper and in peoples ' brains for centuries to come . |
| 17 | The apparent changes in the prevalence of health problems may reflect changes in peoples ' expectations about their health as well as real changes in the prevalence of chronic health problems . |
| 18 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 19 | I am interested in readers ' experiences of this phenomenon , their encounters with the players and the stories that have grown up around some of the longer serving recruits . |
| 20 | Give any movement in directors ' interests in capital of any member of the group between the balance sheet date and a date not more than one month prior to the date of the notice of the AGM . |
| 21 | Nowhere was this clearer than in moralists ' take-up of scientific logic and a language of rationality . |
| 22 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 23 | By selling government debt to the non-bank private sector , for example , the Bank will cause a reduction in bank deposits , matched initially by an equal reduction in bankers ' deposits at the Bank and a consequent deterioration in the banks ' liquidity ratios . |
| 24 | The first is a perceptible change in judges ' attitudes to judicial review . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill . |
| 26 | They highlighted two defects in pluralists ' insistence on studying actual decision-making and observable political conflicts . |
| 27 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 28 | M0 includes notes and coins held by the public plus cash in banks ' tills plus banks ' operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 29 | One experienced key worker reported a great improvement in carers ' satisfaction with services organized under the care programme approach , which he attributed to their participation and consultation . |
| 30 | Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths ' reaction to his innovation . |