Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Finally , and very importantly , they were also responsible for ( a ) the payment of support workers ' wages , and ( b ) for ensuring that expenditure on clients did not exceed budget limits . |
2 | She was tall , waspwaisted with the kind of hair women 's mags called ‘ dark blonde ’ . |
3 | The combined impact of the 1986 Building Societies Act and the ensuing Building Societies ( Accounts and Related Provisions ) Regulations 1987 was widely regarded , at the time , as placing the standard of building societies ' accounts firmly at the forefront of the financial services industry . |
4 | She admitted to no friends amongst the small clutch of camp officers ' wives at Barashevo . |
5 | The nature of pollution control work demands instead essentially qualitative judgements of field officers ' abilities . |
6 | From 1841 onwards much more information is available in the form of census enumerators ' books . |
7 | IN TRYING to split off nine-tenths of ambulance drivers ' journeys as ‘ non-emergency , ’ Mr Kenneth Clarke attempts to separate the inseparable . |
8 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
9 | An anonymous respondent , similarly reticent about details of search firms ' names , agreed that ‘ large buys prestige in the eyes of candidates ’ , but warned that using these firms ‘ tends to restrict the choice of employer ’ from which to hunt and find candidates . |
10 | On the same day the chairman of the commission investigating the June events disclosed that miners were being questioned over their involvement in the violent crackdown against the anti-government demonstrators and the subsequent ransacking of opposition leaders ' offices and homes . |
11 | Both this case , and Gomba Holdings UK Ltd v Minories Finance Ltd , which dealt with the taxation of a receiver 's costs ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 86 ) , indicate that the days of undisputed acceptance of insolvency practitioners ' fees are over — perhaps a natural reaction , given the recession and the priority given to the payment of such fees in an insolvency . |
12 | By comparison with other intermediaries growth has been slow , at least until the 1980s when the value of investment trusts ' assets almost doubled ( 1981–86 ) . |
13 | First skip of spring Builders ' skips are a hazard to all , and ugly with it , says Anne-Marie Kane |
14 | It will be carried out within a comparative context , covering cotton spinning , weaving and finishing , the primary source materials being the extensive archives of textile employers ' organisations in the North-West region of England . |
15 | At a meeting on Nov. 30-Dec. 1 , EC Immigration Ministers , meeting in the context of the Trevi Group , agreed on measures to co-ordinate and speed up the processing of asylum seekers ' applications . |
16 | At an extraordinary congress on Nov. 16-17 the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) voted overwhelmingly in favour of amending provisions of the Basic Law ( constitution ) on asylum to refer to the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees , and in favour of allowing speedier consideration of asylum seekers ' applications and immediate deportation of those whose applications were rejected . |
17 | The North also expressed its displeasure on Feb. 18 by unilaterally cancelling the fourth round of North-South Premiers ' talks scheduled for Feb. 25-28 . |
18 | a Policy Changing Patterns of Care ( SHHD , 1980 ) suggests that the expansion of home helps ' duties beyond straightforward domestic assistance into a more caring role will imply the provision of " specialist training " for a proportion of home helps and " suitable career gradings " . |
19 | Outcomes are of importance : eg resurgence of interest in local history and traditions ( Ness Historical Society ) ; self-help ( youth group , horticultural group ) ; revival of ancient skills ( weaving ) ; use by schools of community organisations ' productions ; political awareness stimulated by local video-tape production in Gaelic on the subject of a local Army installation ; economic developments ; publications ; pre-school developments ( educational and social , and now linked with the pilot development of Open University materials for parents ) ; linguistic awareness ; social awareness , via merging of established roles , eg parent/ teacher , community worker/fellow horticulturalist , informal/vocational education . |
20 | Now I know , know of no law of economics which would permit that , would you be prepared for us to pay a lot out of tax payers ' resources to give to the Soviet people , to help their economy , to help them survive this very difficult transition period ? |
21 | Ruth Gardner reviews the arguments for inclusion of service users ' views , and then surveys some national and local research studies which reflect consumer views . |
22 | THIS picture shows the charred remains of art restorers ' materials said to have been found by investigators feet away from the seat of the Windsor Castle fire . |
23 | As a medley of ‘ traditional British music ’ including Rule Britannia , Greensleeves and The Lincolnshire Poacher was played over a crackly PA , Diana was forced to walk past a tacky display of plastic policemen 's helmets and twee musical boxes shaped like Shakespeare 's cottage . |
24 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
25 | The Japanese Forum for Citizens ' Television ( FCT ) has issued a Charter of Television Viewers ' Rights , which is the first of its kind in Japan . |
26 | Many relinquishing mothers ( little work has been done on fathers ) do not appear to be reconciled to the adoption — 62 per cent of birth parents ' referrals to the PAC concerned a search for their child . |
27 | Distribution of discount houses ' assets , February 1989 . |
28 | Implementation of the charge to capital gains on an annual deemed disposal of life offices ' holdings in authorised unit trusts , and interests in certain offshore funds , has been postponed for a year ( p 98 ) . |
29 | Implementation of the charge to capital gains on an annual deemed disposal of life offices ' holdings in authorised unit trusts , and interests in certain offshore funds , has been postponed for a year . |
30 | Gumboots and Pearls is the story of army officers ' wives continues and after four anything could happen when the goody and the baddy meet head on . |