Example sentences of "in [verb] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return to football hooliganism in Britain itself , it is clear that the existence of ‘ ends ’ at football grounds all over the country plays a central part in maintaining working-class boys ' street-based culture . |
| 2 | He also draws attention to the anomaly in regulatory practice , in that sewerage companies are involved in regulation , yet as private companies have a vested financial interest in accepting other companies ' effluents . |
| 3 | However , the question of housing does require more extended treatment , both for its centrality as a material resource in the pattern of life chances of black people and for its possible role in understanding black pupils ' achievements in British schools . |
| 4 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 5 | The other was that in defining individual teachers ' roles , schools were asked to recognize the importance of job-satisfaction . |
| 6 | They were n't hers and she knew there was always a danger in wanting other peoples ' things for oneself . |
| 7 | Alison Cleland , a development worker with the Children 's Rights Development Unit , said that existing legislation had been shown to be completely ineffective in safeguarding young workers ' welfare . |
| 8 | Guerreiro had been widely criticized among environmentalists and Indian organizations for failing to take a sufficiently active role in defending native peoples ' interests . |
| 9 | Fujitsu and Toshiba have followed Hitachi and IBM Japan in cutting top executives ' pay following a weakening in consumer electronics and computer markets and a slide in profits . |
| 10 | The mission programme plays an important part in increasing local companies ' awareness of export potential and rewards . |
| 11 | Research on the involvement of disabled people in preparing local authorities ' community care plans in April 1992 illustrates some of the barriers . |
| 12 | BIG strides in reducing junior doctors ' working hours have been announced by health minister Dr Brian Mawhinney , who said : ‘ Posts with the longest hours those contracted for an average of more than 83 hours a week fell by more than 2,000 to 3,234 , in the last six months . ’ |
| 13 | By reporting only two columns of figures ( budget and actual ) , not only is the ultimate purpose of budgetary accounting not achieved but much time can be wasted in answering specific users ' questions about variances which could have been avoided by the accounts themselves producing the relevant analysis . |