Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rights issue has the advantage of preserving shareholders ' pre-emption rights in respect of a new issue of the offeror 's shares , whereas this is not possible with a cash underwritten alternative unless accompanied by an open offer and clawback ( see below ) . |
| 2 | Part of the burden was thereby eventually eliminated as the prices of advanced countries ' exports to the primary producers rose — reducing the deterioration in the terms of trade . |
| 3 | The teaching association therefore represents one of the most vocal and important expressions of professional women 's organized opposition to the regime . |
| 4 | Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera . |
| 5 | Their soft , fleshy , heavy contours — hardly the image of the perceived quintessential woman — were those of professional painters ' models ; what was important for Penn was that they were comfortable with their own bodies and not shy of intimacy with the camera . |
| 6 | Gustason 's ( 1983 ) findings on positive views of ASL by teachers is augmented by Stewart 's ( 1983 ) finding of attitudinal change towards ASL being part of deaf children 's bilingualism . |
| 7 | The key is the understanding of deaf children 's processing of their own language , and it is this which requires our immediate and continued attention . |
| 8 | When we apply these views to early childhood we begin to have a clearer picture of deaf children 's future . |
| 9 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 10 | PTE grants in fact provide a hefty chunk of Regional Railways ' revenue , and within each area the executive can stipulate exactly the services it wants . |
| 11 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 12 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 13 | In the circumstances prevailing in industrial societies , with their mass parties , the only viable kind of democracy is what he called a ‘ plebiscitarian leader-democracy ’ , in which charismatic leaders set goals ‘ which are then to be ‘ sold ’ to the people at large by ‘ party machines ’ , and afterwards implemented with the help of administrative bureaucracies ' . |
| 14 | Both have appeared in botched film versions of classic children 's tales ( Hill in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , Jackson in The Wiz ) |
| 15 | The government on May 31 introduced legislation to determine the value of political parties ' assets and for the expropriation of the assets of those parties existing on Oct. 7 , 1989 . |
| 16 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 17 | As an OECD study notes the borderline between public and private enterprises is difficult to draw … some enterprises are more public than others , some are only nominally public and have all the essential characteristics of private organizations ' ( 1985 : 75 ) . |
| 18 | Even the World Bank regularly despatches different missions to an individual country unaware of each others ' presence , or who may meet by accident in a permanent secretary 's outer office . |
| 19 | We humans lay out our highways and byways in our fashion and each species does so in theirs , and we mostly remain unaware of each others ' very own and personal world of perception . |
| 20 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 21 | Agreed royalties will be paid for the use of each others ' code for an agreed period of time . |
| 22 | There is the potential for several wards to share ideas and to develop broader understanding of each others ' specialisms and problems while building valuable resources in the form of teaching aids and expertise . |
| 23 | Encouraged by their interpretations of each others ' dreams they set off against Humbaba to cut down his cedar forests . |
| 24 | A by-product of the computer revolution has been an increased understanding by scientists and humanists of each others ' methods and preoccupations . |
| 25 | But there is a sense in which the genes of different species , even if they do n't meet at close quarters inside cells , nevertheless constitute an important part of each others ' environment . |
| 26 | It has the aim of enabling participants to understand the reality of each others ' lives , and thereby contribute to changes in both societies . |
| 27 | Two differing interpretations , both stressing the role in history of class conflict yet both bearing the distinctive hallmarks of each writers ' individual ideological perspective . |
| 28 | According to Stephen Howard , the company 's founder and chief executive , Make Systems is the only supplier of network planning software to use device-specific libraries to model the performance of specific vendors ' routers and time division multiplexers . |
| 29 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 30 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |