Example sentences of "to [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Finance was sympathetic to employers ' insistence that their authority should not be undermined . |
| 3 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 4 | The Confederation of British Industry estimates that the move could add more than £40 billion to employers ' pension costs . |
| 5 | Women 's limited access to employers ' pension benefits are directly related to the traditional domestic division of labour which assigns the ‘ breadwinner ’ role to men , principally husbands , and the major responsibility for the unpaid work of the home ( especially child care ) to women . |
| 6 | I have received representations from various sources on the subject of a statutory payroll levy related to employers ' training expenditure . |
| 7 | Their significance for Woolf was in contributing to prisoners ' sense of injustice . |
| 8 | The video , Right First Time , will not be appearing in the shops , but is designed to highlight the importance of a team approach to Inroads ' work . |
| 9 | If your husband dies , you will be entitled to widows ' benefit in the same way as any other widow . |
| 10 | A widow who has cohabited and loses her entitlement to widows ' pension will , if the cohabitation ends , be entitled to claim it again . |
| 11 | An information paper ‘ Hygiene Developments ’ , describing in more detail CCG 's response to the Act , was circulated to Operations ' Management to assist them in planning to cope with the onset of the new legislation . |
| 12 | A ‘ Food Safety Update ’ sheet was launched in January to ensure that early clarification of the progress of regulations was made available to Operations ' Management . |
| 13 | According to the release from Peter de Savary 's Land 's End Limited , the move was prompted by increasing concern over cliff-top erosion and a growing threat to climbers ' safety due to deteriorating in-situ protection and lack of regulatory control . |
| 14 | They have therefore decided , subject to shareholders ' approval , to introduce a new executive share option scheme and a series of savings related share option schemes for employees overseas as well as making a change to the UK SAYE scheme . |
| 15 | As Venables issued his plea , Alan Sugar delivered a vote of confidence to Spurs ' management team of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence . |
| 16 | Peter Wright : from third-choice Scot to Lions ' selection |
| 17 | You can pass , in a short tour , the BBC , LWT , Granada , Central and a host of other UK broadcasters , Berlusconi , Freemantle/Talbot ( ‘ The World 's Biggest Supplier of Game Shows ’ , according to the slogan adorning their massive exhibition space ) , a bewildering array of Euro-broadcasters , MTV ( USA ) and literally hundreds of producers of everything from serious arts/documentary programmes to kids ' animation , producers of ‘ erotic ’ material , light entertainment and cult films . |
| 18 | CASKET , the Falcon bikes to kids ' clothier , waved off chairman Neil Balfour just before Christmas . |
| 19 | This will entail all curriculum areas in schools to establish more coherent and thorough techniques of assessment , capable of being linked to schools ' reporting procedures . |
| 20 | Heseltine 's team , by contrast , was highly skilful , visibly enthusiastic , extremely active and very well informed as to backbenchers ' voting intentions . |
| 21 | We gained ready access to heads ' thinking on such matters , especially in the sample schools . |
| 22 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 23 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 24 | At the PDA 600 Pen Pad launch ( see front ) , he responded to journalists ' concern that the pen would go missing : ‘ We give three away free in the box … after that they are £500 each ’ . |
| 25 | The Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations is calling for all references to traders ' responsibility to be removed . |
| 26 | The material presented so far in this book offers an educational , self-help approach to clients ' anxiety problems . |
| 27 | The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks . |
| 28 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 29 | Take time to adjust to parents ' death . |
| 30 | We report here the results of a case-control study set up to investigate whether the excess was related to parents ' employment in the nuclear industry . |