Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The columns displaying prices of licensed dealers ' stocks in the national newspapers did not always appear to be the paid advertising they actually were . |
| 62 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 63 | Also omitted are assessments or even mention of the studies of cultural evolution made since Richard Dawkins 's discussion of the memo , the scathing attacks by Richard Lewontin of the scientific method used in sociobiology , and of social scientists ' reactions to Wilson 's claims . |
| 64 | The same is true of the effects of social services ' intervention in the lives of families . |
| 65 | These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research . |
| 66 | She suggests that this is a hard-line criterion against natural parents which does not take account of social workers ' failure to encourage regular contact between natural parents and children in care . |
| 67 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 68 | The CARAT ( Cargo Agents Reservation and Air Waybill issuance and Tracking system ) is now on-line to nearly 100 of British Airways ' freight forwarding customers , enabling them to book shipments and track their cargo all over the world without needing to pick a telephone . |
| 69 | Salomon Brothers yesterday placed with City institutions the US chunk of British Airways ' £320m convertible bonds rights issue . |
| 70 | The Federation of British Aquarists ' Societies will forward a list of affiliated clubs on request . |
| 71 | Royal Bank of Scotland has decided from 1 October 1991 , and in line with market practice and the Association of British Insurers ' SORP , to defer acquisition expenses relating to new and renewed motor and household policies over the period during which the premiums are earned , generally 12 months . |
| 72 | PRINCE Charles ' great architectural opponent , Max Hutchinson , has ordered that the engraving of his name in marble at the Royal Institute of British Architects ' headquarters , be altered . |
| 73 | At a recent Royal Institute of British Architects ' conference , author Simon Inglis summed up the mood of many anti-relocation fans , unswayed by the clubs ' need for cash . |
| 74 | It has to be emphasized that , for those who support the Mobilizing Ideal , these authoritarian features of British governments ' attitudes and behaviour towards the media are not defects but virtues . |
| 75 | Only microscopic number of reproductions hand on the walls of ordinary peoples ' houses , and in terms of the national population those people who really ‘ like ’ them — as opposed to professing admiration for them — must be very much of a minority , so Bacon 's millions must have come from institutions and a very small body of very rich patrons . |
| 76 | Since Bains an increasing amount of chief officers ' time has been devoted to liaison with other departmental heads to formulate corporate strategies . |
| 77 | This gendering is also expressed directly : because of cognitive theories ' prestige , male dominance among psychologists and psychological subjects is particularly strong in them . |
| 78 | Under the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Conditions of Contract ( fifth edition ) , retention money is repaid to a contractor in two stages , the first within 14 days after the certificate of completion has been issued , the remainder within 14 days after the end of the period of maintenance . |
| 79 | He was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Telford medal in 1885 , and was elected a member in 1886 . |
| 80 | ‘ Surely this can not be justified as an effective use of civil servants ' time or public money . ’ |
| 81 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 82 | Then she passed into the square , tessellated hall with its stone fireplace , the hall which , on winter nights , seemed to echo faintly with the childish voices of Victorian rectors ' children and which , for Meg , had always held a faintly ecclesiastical smell . |
| 83 | A survey of coverage of present research , and of individual researchers ' priorities for future research ; |
| 84 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 85 | Perhaps the observation of particular teachers over a prolonged period combined with the charting of individual pupils ' learning experiences — including visits to the library — and the ways in which they did or did not use project-purchased resources would achieve this end , but there are clearly practical and methodological objections to such activities . |
| 86 | I was discussing business contracts with my husband and waiting for a call from my own children who would rock with laughter if I prescribed a dose of warm camels ' milk and clove for a poor stomach and headache . |
| 87 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 88 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
| 89 | PAUL DAWSON , who works in the design office at Capenhurst , was designated a Whitworth Scholar at an award ceremony held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers ' London headquarters . |
| 90 | Two pairs of sharpened watchmakers ' forceps are necessary for this dissection . |