Example sentences of "on the [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not unreasonable that the investors should want the managers ' views on the accountants ' report , but management 's advisers should try to restrict this warranty to the facts in the report and exclude any opinions given by the accountants . |
| 2 | The acquisition search service provided by MAS is based on the list of companies for sale which are held on the Accountants ' Business Network database jointly shared by the major accounting firms . |
| 3 | In the museum display of these materials ( such as the treasures of Tutankhamun 's tomb ) , stress may be laid on the objects ' discovery by British archaeologists , thereby helping to legitimize the implicit pseudo-evolutionary claims of historical advance as civilization ( Gidri 1974 ) . |
| 4 | This will depend on the parents ' working hours , but it can be a long day , possibly 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.mm. , or even longer . |
| 5 | On the parents ' separation the mother initially left the four children of the marriage with the father in the former matrimonial home but on her subsequently removing one of the children the father applied ex parte for orders , including a residence order , a prohibited steps order and a specific issue order pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989 requiring her to return the child and directing her not to remove any of the children from the father 's care and control . |
| 6 | This is obvious if we consider societies which have systems of partible inheritance , where resources are divided equally between the surviving children on the parents ' death . |
| 7 | On the administrators ' appeal : — |
| 8 | It rests on what is bound to be , to some extent , subjective assessment , as in playing a game when there are rules and communal experience to draw on , but ultimately it depends on the players ' awareness and skill . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Albert he was made 12th man and , with no substitutes allowed in those days , spent the match idle on the players ' bench . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
| 11 | The paper was prompted by the Law Society 's concern over the increasing cost of defaults — it estimates that claims against its compensation fund will reach £20m annually , mainly attributed to defaults of sole practitioners ( defaults within partnerships usually fall on the solicitors ' indemnity fund ) . |
| 12 | On the solicitors ' appeal : — |
| 13 | The city is one of the most popular destinations on the visitors ' map … but accomodation bookings have fallen roughly a quarter over the past two years . |
| 14 | They had offered Dalglish an emotional welcome when he emerged before the game and took an unfamiliar place on the visitors ' bench . |
| 15 | Our man on the visitors ' end assures us that the chant was ‘ Big fat Ray 's black and white army ’ virtually throughout . |
| 16 | This , not unnaturally , led to further confusion on the students ' part , and the treatment suggested here was adopted as the solution that fitted best with what the students felt they wanted to write . |
| 17 | And while there was some variation depending on the students ' IT subject area , other than in the still numerically small area of IKBS/MMI/AI , in no other subject did the proportion of SERC-funded students seeking employment fall below one quarter . |
| 18 | But today Education Secretary John Patten launched a viscious attack on the students ' union . |
| 19 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 20 | Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students ' preparedness to respond . |
| 21 | Now the curtain rises on the friends ' meeting . |
| 22 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 23 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 24 | Gould is on the Fabians ' executive committee , while Smith and Beckett are mere members , and Prescott is not even that . |
| 25 | Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ . |
| 26 | Such ideas , however , were not based entirely on the critics ' response to what was on display ; rather , they derived from opinions about O'Keeffe and her art that had been formulated by Stieglitz and his circle of friends and published before 1923 . |
| 27 | Questioned more closely on how he gets his sound — for instance , the mind-boggling tone for the slide solo on the Pahinuis ' versh of Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues — it becomes more and more apparent that the unassuming , virtually ego-free Mr. Cooder is far happier discussing musicians other than himself … |
| 28 | On the receivers ' application to determine whether receivers appointed over the property of an unregistered company were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 : — |
| 29 | That solicitor attended on the magistrates ' court at 4.20 that afternoon . |
| 30 | Coinciding with an exhibition at the RIBA , ‘ Design Classics : Charles and Ray Eames ’ , Christopher Wilk , Curator of the Furniture and Woodwork Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum will lecture on the Eames ' furniture designs on 20 November . |