Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressure on consultants to work faster , participate in audit and management , and accept financial responsibility for their clinical work , coupled with the reduction in junior doctors ' hours , were considered to militate against educational developments . |
| 2 | Shortly , we shall launch a further information campaign because , to achieve the changes in junior doctors ' hours , it is important that the NHS task forces in each region can work with the juniors , managers and consultants to find practical solutions at their particular places of work . |
| 3 | It was potentially a valuable and interesting debate , but , as happened during the debate on constitutional reform on 17 May , which was also held in private Members ' time , time has become rather squeezed , mainly because the Conservatives seem keen to spin out the debate through their speeches and interventions instead of allowing a proper debate . |
| 4 | Whatever the merits of this line of reasoning , it ignores a significant development in economic agents ' behaviour . |
| 5 | Each will provide , where appropriate , services in Regional Railways ' three areas of operation — urban , inter-urban and rural . |
| 6 | It was not conceived to address many of the concerns uppermost in social workers ' minds . |
| 7 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 8 | To allow us to compare community care plans without appearing overly judgemental , and to structure our discussion of the part played by care programming in different authorities ' policies for mental health , the rest of this section employs the biological concepts of assimilation and adaptation . |
| 9 | and erm then we kept the babies in different toddlers ' homes at |
| 10 | Nevertheless , we have been told by counsel that the matter is far from academic , in that justices ' courts are concerned , this being a matter which has exercised justices ' courts on many occasions and on which there are different practices in different justices ' courts . |
| 11 | ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . ) |
| 12 | Often you even come across portraits of Kurt Cobain in teenage girls ' weekly mags . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State rather coyly referred to the increase in Scottish Homes ' total funding , but not to the overall position . |
| 14 | His other great interest was in climbing , especially in the Alps ; a subsidiary peak on the Matterhorn is named after him , and the Zermatt museum possesses his ice-axe and his signature ( and those of other Victorian intellectuals ) in old visitors ' books . |
| 15 | Either the afternoons are as endless as those in old folks ' homes , which prompt the matrons to pin up Reality Orientation charts ( ’ When is your birthday ? |
| 16 | Some 97,000 families will be affected by cuts of up to 40% in civil servants ' pay , part of a World Bank/IMF plan to reduce government spending . |
| 17 | The Council of State ( its constitutional decision making role , which the previous Stroessner regime had ignored , restored by Rodriguez ) on April 14 had decreed a 30 per cent increase in civil servants ' wages and increased the national budget by just over 33 per cent . |
| 18 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 19 | A central problem remains the small role assigned to administrators in liberal corporatists ' accounts ( Nordlinger , 1981 , pp. 171 — 2 ; Diamant 1981 , p. 120 ) . |
| 20 | Now these visitors were dressed in simple shepherds ' tunics though they were fashioned in stripes of crimson satin and cloth of gold . |
| 21 | Authors have identified considerable consistency in individual authorities ' spending patterns over time despite the variation between authorities . |
| 22 | It is not clear why this happened , but it does illustrate the inherent instability in individual practices ' annual referral rates and the consequent difficulties involved in estimating budgets on the basis of past referral patterns . |
| 23 | According to this thesis , the distribution of responsibilities left the GLC and MCCs with too little to do , but with access to large rating resources : ‘ This generates a natural search for a ‘ strategic ’ role which may have little basis in real needs ' ( DOE 1983b:3 ) . |
| 24 | The extraordinary 19 per cent rise in real consumers ' spending between 1985 and 1988 was mainly due to the real wage rise of 14.1 per cent . |
| 25 | However , allied to the improvement in companies ' financial position has been an increase in large companies ' liquidity ratios , to their highest level since the end of 1987 ( though this may have been partly at the cost of the liquidity of smaller companies , because of trade credit effect ) . |
| 26 | There has been a steady increase in illegitimacy in the 1980s accompanied by a rise in unmarried parents ' applications to court for maintenance , custody and access . |
| 27 | Hewitt ( 1989 ) , for example , accepts that the speech of black adolescents shows influences from Creole but asserts that the same influences can be seen in white adolescents ' English in certain areas : the English of many black youngsters also itself displayed evidence of Creole influence beyond those stretches that might be plainly treated as switches . |
| 28 | At the end of five years , you 've got the option er and you can er then extend the er into the erm er next issue if you wish , or you can go on the extension rate , which is n't usually good , or in index-linked certificates ' case , they 'll perhaps give you indexation , but no er bonuses . |
| 29 | These reports are a valuable aid to our Information Department in answering Members ' enquiries about resorts , and to the guide 's editor , Chris Gill , in compiling the new edition . |
| 30 | It would be wrong to dismiss this sort of criticism as mere sales talk , particularly in grand auctioneers ' catalogues , though there is little danger of such publications being reticent . |