Example sentences of "of an [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 This tendency has been especially marked within large establishments in the engineering and chemical industries , although multi-employer bargaining by means of an employers ' organisation still remains the predominant pattern in highly competitive industries with low capitalisation and a high ease of entry such as clothing , construction and printing ( Sisson , 1984 ) .
2 In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy .
3 By February 1890 , this temporary arrangement had extended its coverage and become permanent with the establishment of an Employers ' Labour Association representing thirty of the principal steamship owners and twenty master stevedores and porters who together employed some three-fifths of the seamen and dockers in the port .
4 I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study .
5 Poindexter kept in his study a poster with the words ‘ Blessed are the Peacemakers ’ though possibly it had been put there by his minister-wife ; North was a member of an officers ' prayer group that prayed regularly for peace , particularly in the Gulf .
6 When that will was vitiated either by the monarch 's evil counsellors or , as the later theoreticians of military indiscipline were to maintain , by the corrupt operation of Parliamentary institutions run by a clique of national ’ politicians , then it could be salvaged by the heroic gesture of a general or the conspiracy of an officers ' mess .
7 The determinants of an individuals ' welfare can be broadly classified as depending upon their own capacity to care for themselves combined with ( a ) market activities and relationships ; ( b ) the behaviour of ‘ significant others ’ as providers of ‘ informal care ’ amongst whom family members are likely to be the most important ; and ( c ) the role played by the state .
8 For instance , one may have to identify the real settlor of an employees ' trust or a trading trust .
9 The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought .
10 The bird simply sits on top of an ants ' nest and allows the ants to climb all over it , squirting their defensive fluids as they do so .
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