Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 2 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 3 | PTE grants in fact provide a hefty chunk of Regional Railways ' revenue , and within each area the executive can stipulate exactly the services it wants . |
| 4 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 5 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 6 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |
| 7 | Agreed royalties will be paid for the use of each others ' code for an agreed period of time . |
| 8 | But there is a sense in which the genes of different species , even if they do n't meet at close quarters inside cells , nevertheless constitute an important part of each others ' environment . |
| 9 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 10 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
| 11 | This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees . |
| 12 | A review of the training content of junior doctors ' work is long overdue : a recent survey found that only 3% of juniors ' working time was spent on training . |
| 13 | Extension of allied forces ' mandate |
| 14 | The Dane , though shy and retiring and lacking a sense of humour , has knitted together a unified policy for the agency , which spends every year some £400 million of European taxpayers ' money . |
| 15 | The Sergeant was a meaty slab of a man , of fifty years ' service , ruddy-faced as though surfeited with a Marine 's haemoglobin-plus blood ; and through one Lyman 's earlobe he wore an alien foetus pendant . |
| 16 | Part of the evidence here comes from genetic analyses ( e.g. twin comparisons ) of normal subjects ' performance on ‘ creativity ’ tests . |
| 17 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 18 | They hailed the Paris Commune of 1870–1 as the first authentic workers ' revolution and a prototype of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ , the transitional form of strong workers ' state which would have to exist between the shattering of capitalist control and the eventual abolition of all class divisions under advanced communism . |
| 19 | A sentence of 120 hours ' community service on the attacker yesterday was condemned by Nicola 's mother Sue . |
| 20 | On Nov. 4 , the 13th anniversary of Iranian revolutionaries ' takeover of the US embassy in Tehran [ see p. 30150 ] , the authorities announced the arrest of a US resident , Milton Meier , a travel agent , who was said to have confessed to spying . |
| 21 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
| 22 | The South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants ' diamond jubilee appeal has received a welcome boost from Olympic gold medal winner Sally Gunnell . |
| 23 | The library is at the Copthall Avenue end of Chartered Accountants ' Hall , Moorgate Place , London EC2 . |
| 24 | The Securities and Investments Board has welcomed the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' decision that its members should be authorised via membership of the Securities and Futures Authority , rather than the RICS seeking recognition in its own right . |
| 25 | NORTH ‘ We 've seen an increase in activity but people are reluctant to commit themselves , ’ says Newcastle-based Peter Miller , Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ' housing spokesman . |
| 26 | Labour opposes discrimination against lesbian mothers and has Annual Conference policy in support of lesbian mothers ' custody rights , but this is quite separate from winning elections — which is what matters most . |
| 27 | The remaining Assembly seats went to the Democratic Community of Vojvodina Hungarians ( eight ) , independents ( eight ) , the Democratic Party ( seven ) , the Party of Democratic Action ( three ) , the Alliance of Reform Forces of Vojvodina ( two ) , the Party of Serbian Peasants ' Union ( two ) , and to seven other parties taking one seat each . |
| 28 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 29 | Yet judging from the book , the case material lacks an essential element of realism , in spite of 30 years ' development and three editions . |
| 30 | Amid the tumult of Tiananmen Square , the end of 30 years ' estrangement between the world 's great Communist powers went almost forgotten . |