Example sentences of "of [noun pl] ['s] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Problems With Debt : A Survey of Creditors ' Perceptions and Practices , May 1989 ) |
| 2 | The businesses include two in waste disposal — essentially landfill operations — two in quarrying , two in the manufacture of scientific instruments plus a chain of builders ' merchants and a maker of specialised grouts . |
| 3 | This coincides with the normal trading and credit arrangements of builders ' merchants and suppliers . |
| 4 | This is the site of the former mill ponds and it appears that uncontrolled dumping of builders ' rubble and other waste material possibly of a dangerous nature is taking place . |
| 5 | The extreme scarcity of artists ' materials and a relaxation of restrictions on travel have led to a new exodus of painters , sculptors , and other artists . |
| 6 | Although Clegg identifies the structure and attitudes of employers ' associations and managements as the main , direct influences on the dimensions of bargaining themselves , in fact , the determinants of collective bargaining receive little detailed attention in his work . |
| 7 | The project investigates the seriously neglected history of employers ' organisations and the role such associations played in the evolution of a system of industrial relations in the cotton industry between 1870-1939 . |
| 8 | As we can be sure that Howard would have approved of the constructive use of prisoners ' time and energy and training in work habits , so we can probably also assume that he would have been disappointed in and disapproving of the latest trend . |
| 9 | The day to day routine of the Home Office in supervising prisons , the probation service and the police , including the handling of prisoners ' petitions and applications for the Royal Prerogative of Mercy , gives it a fund of practical experience of how the law is working and what changes ought to be thought about . |
| 10 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 11 | Fenella , seated by the fire , trying not to flinch from onion-tainted breath and unwashed feet ( there was something particularly revolting about the thought of giants ' feet and their toenails ) , thought so as well . |
| 12 | The balance sheet should show the total amount of shareholders ' funds and an analysis of shareholders ' funds between the amount attributable to equity interests and the amount attributable to non-equity interests . |
| 13 | This analysis is similar to that of shareholders ' funds and is required for the same reasons . |
| 14 | The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . |
| 15 | This role meets the needs of the team for cohesiveness and collaboration , for role-holders tend to be perceptive of peoples ' needs and adept at supporting individuals . |
| 16 | Substitution of numbers for 52 per cent could do this for an words in formulae easy standing charge and number of units ' formula and 17 per cent for an electricity bill ( p.61 ) . |
| 17 | Stay out of the kitchen : Julian Berry chops squid in the presence of calves ' brains and the head of a conger eel |
| 18 | Even more than in the earlier conflict , direct vetting of journalists ' copy and reliance on allied debriefings ensure that military priorities squeeze out alternative perspectives and agendas . |
| 19 | She had a blurry image of Piers 's face and started . |
| 20 | West Sussex has no quarrel with the Bill 's basic objectives of raising the overall quality of schools ' teaching and and attainment by changing the inspection system requiring all schools to be inspected periodically . |
| 21 | A slight staggering of schools ' starting and finishing times sometimes leads to a more efficient use of buses ( although the service may then be less convenient to other users ) . |
| 22 | The provision of information presupposes a two-way exchange both as a concomitant of genuine partnership and in order that LEA decisions and information are grounded in an exact and sympathetic understanding of schools ' situations and needs . |
| 23 | Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking . |
| 24 | These duties are listed as : the preparation of desiderata lists ; the selection and purchase of books within broad terms of reference ; allocation of books between libraries ; classification and cataloguing of all books and materials ; revision of stock ; screening of withdrawn books ; screening of books for rebinding ; maintenance of central reserve stocks ; bibliographical work , including compilation of special lists and indexes ; the bibliographical aspects of inter-library loans and regional loans and of readers ' requests and reservations ; readers ' advisory and information service . |
| 25 | It helps if in the assessment interview , the client can delineate specific objectives and targets to achieve ; this gives some indicator of clients ' motivation and a target to aim for . |
| 26 | W. Norfolk , Graham Gaskin at the European Commission of Human Rights and the work of Guardians ad litem , in addition , enlarge the perception of the importance of clients ' views and involvement in decision making . |
| 27 | The book is also an attempt to link together and blend theory , policy and practice in the belief that well-informed policy and practice are likely not only to be more sensitive to the realities of clients ' lives and needs , but also more cost effective in the long term . |
| 28 | The concept of clients ' involvement and taking their views into account in service provision is still relatively recent . |
| 29 | We give them a list of clients ' names and room numbers , and then they 're asked to go round and place rooms and names together . |
| 30 | On 27th November 1974 , on a Complaint by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland , the Solicitors ' Discipline ( Scotland ) Committee found George Loudon Allan , Solicitor , 33A Queen 's Avenue , Edinburgh , guilty of professional misconduct on several charges which included the fraudulent conversion of clients ' monies and breaches of Rule 4 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Solicitors ' ( Scotland ) Accounts Rules , 1952 , as amended . |