Example sentences of "the [noun] ' [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was here a latent tension , perhaps most fully apparent in the contrast between socialist demands for State corporations and the Keynesians ' call for an anti-trust policy to oppose monopoly power . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As the new funding councils for the universities and for the polytechnics and colleges develop systems of contracting , the institutions ' room for manoeuvre in the subjects they offer may diminish further as their programme performance and their accounting arrangements are subjected to ever closer scrutiny . |
| 4 | If a waiver is obtained , it has to be renewed if the shareholders ' authority for the purchase or redemption is renewed under CA 1985 , ss164-166 . |
| 5 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 6 | First of all to thank the Surveyors ' Department for cooperation on various things that have taken place and where possible the altered or amended suggestions have gone in er themselves . |
| 7 | For purely practical purposes , I deal with the artists ' money for recording and touring expenses . |
| 8 | Adrian 's a very good photographer and we soon established a reciprocal relationship whereby he photographed the artists ' work for which he was paid in kind . |
| 9 | The woodcuts are only a few inches square , and defy the artists ' desire for detail and extravagance . |
| 10 | The Germans naturally played the major role in shaping the CIVC and its undoubted success , both immediate and since , must to some extent be credited to the Germans ' reputation for organisation , efficiency and detail . |
| 11 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |
| 12 | The bull-ring will be closed and beaches forgotten as crowds watch the riders ' preparations for the Prologue . |
| 13 | The guardians ' responsibility for training would then end , and the probationers would be absorbed into the affiliated hospital for their third and fourth years . |
| 14 | The creoles ' desire for office , economic freedom , and free trade could never perhaps have been satisfied within the static Spanish theory of imperialism . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the intense interest in how many Scots will make the Lions ' party for New Zealand is assuredly not diluted by the fact that each of the thistle 's three Grand Slams has followed hard upon just such a British Isles venture . |
| 16 | LONG before England came such a cropper at Lansdowne Road , there were many besides the Scots among the British rugby fraternity who were already positive that Gavin Hastings would be revealed this morning as the Lions ' captain for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand . |
| 17 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 18 | Likewise , in Alejo Carpentier 's The Kingdom of This World , an account of slave revolts in Haiti at the end of the eighteenth century , the Negroes ' struggle for liberty opposes their magical world of voodoo to the rational , cerebral world of their French masters . |
| 19 | The Government have taken no action to limit the authorities ' scope for charging . |
| 20 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 21 | The Northern Territory Attorney-General , Daryl Manzie , told the parliament in Darwin yesterday that he was denying the Chamberlains ' request for confidentiality because the claim for legal expenses was almost double the figure given in a submission last year . |
| 22 | This same meeting also queried , in time-honoured fashion , the builders ' account for the clubhouse as ‘ several of the prices for extras being thought very high ’ , the matter to be dealt with — also in time-honoured fashion — by a sub-committee . |
| 23 | During the 1950s pressure for road improvements mounted ; the British Roads Federation , which represented road construction interests , joined forces with professional lobbies , motor manufacturers and traders , while the TUC aligned with the employers ' associations for more spending . |
| 24 | The seamen had good reason to suppose that the arguments on the employers ' side for resisting negotiations at national level were weakening . |
| 25 | We gain little from minute attention to the manufacturers ' congratulations for our choice of car , or from the swearing-in in court , and , on a first reading of a novel , it may be more important to follow those parts which forward the plot than those which set the scene . |
| 26 | Davies holds the Chemics ' record for most points in a season with 342 from 30 tries and 112 goals , including two drop goals . |
| 27 | The Friers ' award for decor was presented to Cornmill Theatre who had staged ‘ The Gentle Island ’ on the final evening . |
| 28 | In June 1988 it reported , recommending the removal of any improper restrictions upon the right of individual Tatars to return to their native land and calling for more attention to be paid to their cultural needs , but also rejecting the Tatars ' call for the reestablishment of their autonomous republic . |
| 29 | On the supporters ' calls for his removal , he said : ‘ The supporters wo n't change my opinion of what I 'd like to do at Darlington . |
| 30 | Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums . |