Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the company is a parent or subsidiary undertaking or where the total directors ' emoluments ( including pension contributions ) is £60,000 or more , the following should be disclosed : emoluments of chairman emoluments of highest paid director if they exceed the emoluments of the chairman the number of directors whose emoluments fall within rising bands of £5,000 . |
| 2 | Where the company is a parent or subsidiary undertaking or where the total directors ' emoluments ( including pension contributions ) is £60,000 or more , disclose the number of directors waiving emoluments and the total amount ( including pension contributions ) thereof . |
| 3 | Currently , the TUC 's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives ' courses , not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues . |
| 4 | His claims for communications were , in fact , much more modest than the English lecturers ' claims for English . |
| 5 | What I 'm trying to say is that er Notts County supporters have got ta watch out for the other English teams ' scores rather than the Italian teams ' scores . |
| 6 | These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers ' scapegoat , the rapacious landlords . |
| 7 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 8 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 9 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 10 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 11 | If the radical criminologists ' assumptions are correct , then the figures for the second half of the 19th century might probably show the opposite from that which they do ’ ( Emsley , 1988 , p. 42 ) . |
| 12 | If the clearing banks ' balances are above target — that is , if the final clearing on the previous day left the clearers with balances at the Bank above those which they desire to keep in order to meet day-to-day requirements — then there will be a corresponding easing of the market 's cash position . |
| 13 | It had jeopardized the government coalition , because the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( FKgP ) for a long time had been unwilling to make concessions which compromised the commitment in its electoral programme to full restitution [ see p. 37790 ; 37975 ] . |
| 14 | Expanding supermarket chains preferred the white breeds because the plucked birds ' sin was clean and white , as opposed to the speckled skin of bronze- or black-feathered turkeys . |
| 15 | Around 38 per cent of seats nationwide went to independent candidates , while the Polish Peasants ' Party performed best of the national political parties , with around 6.5 per cent of seats . |
| 16 | ( The chairman of the special committee of the German Bundestag , Günter Verheugen , also described the UK 's presidency of the EC as " a downright disaster " in comments on Nov. 20 , while the German Farmers ' Association ( DBV ) had criticized the EC for bowing to " massive pressure " from the USA . ) |
| 17 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 18 | From the liberal wing of the Ukrainian Communist Party , Fokin was regarded as a compromise candidate and was elected unopposed in the third ballot ( he had re-entered the contest after withdrawing from the second ballot ) , after the communist hardliners ' candidate , Aleksandr Bulyanda , had been persuaded to stand down . |
| 19 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 20 | When the national selectors ' viewpoint was put to him , Watt took up the challenge : ‘ I was happy to give it a real bash . |
| 21 | When the Social Services ' Committee raised concerns about basic definitions for collaborative working and about the apparent overlap between the care programme approach and care management , the Secretary of State for Health referred them to Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond — Policy Guidance . |
| 22 | The head-on clash with Kuwait , which has been allowed to produce oil without restriction since the end of the Gulf war , was seen by many OPEC observers as a rehearsal for the more difficult problems arising when the United Nations ' embargo on Iraq is lifted . |
| 23 | The Greens were still arguing over whether the time had come to loosen principle a little and elect a leader , a public face , perhaps Sara Parkin , the International Liaison Secretary of the UK Greens as well as the European Greens ' co-ordination co-secretary . |
| 24 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 25 | Is your own information on the tide and wind predictions the same as the local sailors ' interpretation ? |
| 26 | They are as boring as a civil servants ' convention , but for armagnac , they are ideal . |
| 27 | Then , in 1914 , major renovation of the building was undertaken to give a new large room , some 5ft. wider and 7ft. higher , as well as a new infants ' classroom and cloakrooms . |
| 28 | IT WILL be summer all over again at Dundonald International Ice Bowl when a new Kids ' Club starts on Saturday , September 11 . |
| 29 | Sheringham was the scene of the famous ‘ what train ? ’ incident involving Joyce Wethered in the final of the 1920 English Ladies ' Championship ; Cromer witnessed the conception of the Curtis Cup when a British ladies ' team first met the Americans there in 1905 . |