Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rights issue has the advantage of preserving shareholders ' pre-emption rights in respect of a new issue of the offeror 's shares , whereas this is not possible with a cash underwritten alternative unless accompanied by an open offer and clawback ( see below ) . |
| 2 | The teaching association therefore represents one of the most vocal and important expressions of professional women 's organized opposition to the regime . |
| 3 | Two differing interpretations , both stressing the role in history of class conflict yet both bearing the distinctive hallmarks of each writers ' individual ideological perspective . |
| 4 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 5 | It is suggested in Bramwell on Taxation of Companies and Company Reconstructions that this might constitute a value-shifting arrangement entitling the Revenue to adjust the consideration on a disposal of Target 's shares , though the Revenue have indicated that payments for group relief would not usually constitute value shifting — see the Institute of Chartered Accountants ' Technical Release TR 291 . |
| 6 | The 25 lucky winners in our £1,500 competition will also receive a copy of XL Records ' new three-album compilation set . |
| 7 | Old Slains stands even more perilously close to the North Sea cliffs , and in high weather the waves climb and spray the windows of the people who live in the houses under the shadow of Old Slains 's remaining high wall . |
| 8 | A much more useful and realistic approach is to study recordings of different speakers ' natural , spontaneous speech and try to make generalisations about attitudes and intonation on this basis . |
| 9 | National Union of Public Employees ' senior London officer Chris Humphreys said : ‘ It is essential the inquiry reports quickly and that any additional resources required are available . |
| 10 | In 1989 it won the Institute of Public Relations ' top prize , the Sword of Excellence . |
| 11 | The importance of sterling movement for the equity market extends , of course , well beyond export considerations to include the translation of foreign subsidiaries ' overseas earnings . |
| 12 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 13 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 14 | In 1910 he was one of the prime organizers of the Royal Institute of British Architects ' International Town Planning Congress ( which attracted an astonishing 1,300 delegates ) ; between 1912 and 1914 he was lecturing at the University of Birmingham ; and in 1913 he was playing an active role in establishing a Town Planning Institute . |
| 15 | The court also upheld a series of decrees allowing the seizure and confiscation of suspected traffickers ' personal property . |
| 16 | A similar approach is followed in the specification for the Institute of Civil Engineers ' new style contract . |
| 17 | Also , the spread of investments will reduce the impact of individual companies ' corporate insolvencies . |
| 18 | Table 4.4 clearly shows that in spite of all the additional resources of PNP , and in spite of the fact that , on average , their teachers were involved in more than three teacher-pupil interactions every minute , individual children took part in only eleven teacher-pupil interactions per hour , of which fewer than half were task-related : indeed in some classes the mean hourly rate of individual pupils ' task-related interactions with their teachers was as tow as two , and in no class was it higher than eleven . |
| 19 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 20 | the tape recording of individual children 's oral performance for assessment purposes might not be part of normal classroom activity and thus not in line with TGAT recommendations . |
| 21 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 22 | Each period of observation or each sequence of periods of observation , possibly on different days ( or over a longer period ) will provide a longitudinal ‘ case ’ study of six pupils ' affective responses to computer-assisted learning and non-computer-assisted learning . |
| 23 | Yet , against this sense of her work being inevitably implicated in the strategies of European supremacy in the age of slavery and early colonialism , we can not fail to find her representations of white women 's moral character , emotional profundity and historical agency , compelling . |
| 24 | This is graphically illustrated by Jenkins 's investigations ( 1985 , 1986 ) of white managers ' varying conceptions of the capacities of Asian and Afro-Caribbean workers . |
| 25 | Early redemption of a loan carries a penalty of 90 days ' extra interest , except during the first year of the five year deal , when an additional 150 days ' interest is levied . |
| 26 | The result is that the shock of these artists ' social criticism is defused . |
| 27 | During the last few years , we have begun to learn something of these mothers ' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand : what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories . |
| 28 | The authors are united in their concern for the quality of these children 's early experiences , although they disagree markedly in the solutions they offer . |
| 29 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 30 | The programme was the product of three weeks ' intensive work by President Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers to produce a compromise between Stanislav Shatalin " s radical proposals and the more cautious plan produced by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov . |