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 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1989 it won the Institute of Public Relations ' top prize , the Sword of Excellence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The court also upheld a series of decrees allowing the seizure and confiscation of suspected traffickers ' personal property . |
| 14 | A similar approach is followed in the specification for the Institute of Civil Engineers ' new style contract . |
| 15 | Also , the spread of investments will reduce the impact of individual companies ' corporate insolvencies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is graphically illustrated by Jenkins 's investigations ( 1985 , 1986 ) of white managers ' varying conceptions of the capacities of Asian and Afro-Caribbean workers . |
| 21 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 22 | It is tempting to see the source of black kids ' sporting involvement and success as the family . |
| 23 | Legislation expected to be adopted throughout Europe by 1998 will mean about 75 per cent of Protective Coatings ' existing range would be jeopardised — the company would not be permitted to sell the products in their present form . |
| 24 | Mary MacArthur spoke in defence of married women 's high sickness claims to the Departmental Committee on National Health Insurance in 1914 , but she still feared that any improvement respecting their position under the scheme would ‘ discriminate in favour of the wage-earning woman as against her uninsured sister , whose need is often as great , [ and ] will result in a State premium on the industrial employment of married women ’ . |
| 25 | Carl N. Degler , using evidence from women of the urban middle class in America ( the class to which Acton 's work was directed ) , together with a survey of married women 's sexual attitudes begun in the 1890s by Dr C. D. Mosher , argues that it was more an ideology seeking to be established than the prevalent view or practice of even middle-class women . |
| 26 | a comparative survey of secondary teachers ' professional satisfactions in the UK and USA . |
| 27 | South America is International 's largest market , contributing 10% of United Distillers ' total profits . |
| 28 | This could have the effect of improving girls ' spatial visualisation skills — and may also , directly or indirectly , favourably affect their learning of mathematics . |
| 29 | Gibbons et al. ( 1978a ) demonstrated that treatment by social workers using a standardized task-centred approach ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) was more effective in terms of improving patients ' social problems than traditional care recommended by psychiatrists , although only for female patients ( Gibbons 1979 ) . |
| 30 | Almost everyone these days seems to be in favour of developing students ' critical abilities , from the students themselves , through the academic community , to the government , employers and professional bodies . |