Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition requires the deposit to be paid only by a banker 's draft or solicitors ' cheque . |
| 2 | The notice will be ineffective , however , unless ( as per s 394 ) it includes a statement of any circumstances connected with the resignation that the auditor considers should be brought to members ' or creditors ' attention . |
| 3 | Despite the trials of 1830 trouble had continued , particularly in the east , where labourers ' trades unions had met in Lewes , Uckfield , Seaford and Rye to keep up pressure for higher wages , placarding the towns with posters . |
| 4 | Deep caves and passages have been cut into the limestone by streams flowing from Ben More Assynt : by the glen of Traligill Burn , the Vikings ' Trolls ' Gill or giants ' ravine ; Noc nan Uamh , the ‘ hill of the caves ’ , Allt nan Uamh , the ‘ burn of the caves ’ . |
| 5 | You 'll find lists of publishers and what magazines look for in the Writers ' & Artists ' Yearbook ( A & C Black , £7.95 ) . |
| 6 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 7 | Other provisions ‘ abolished the prohibition on hearsay evidence and rendered admissible as evidence ‘ confession ’ statements which , although involuntary , had not actually been obtained by torture , inhuman or degrading treatment , threats or inducements ' ( ibid . ) . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , all these ‘ occupational ’ or employers ' pensions were either ‘ public sector ’ pensions derived from formal arrangements made for central or local government employees or ‘ private sector ’ pensions . |
| 9 | Many labour markets are now characterized by countervailing market power ; there is bilateral bargaining between unions and large firms or employers ' organizations . |
| 10 | When acting as a representative of HCIMA the interests of the association should be paramount to personal or employers ' interests . |
| 11 | Conversely , where employers ' associations remained weak and underdeveloped — as in France up to the inter-war period — collective bargaining played a negligible role in setting the terms and conditions of employment , with the result that legislative provisions assumed relatively greater importance . |
| 12 | In a rural situation proximity to motorways , pig farms , sewage disposal works and unsightly light industrial operations such as scrap or builders ' yards , have a significant impact on site value . |
| 13 | Professional services such as architects ' or surveyors ' offices , or a design studio would suit the property . |
| 14 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 15 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 16 | They can not control outputs because they can not control customers ' or clients ' mental processes . |
| 17 | Where Sessions 's military history is filtered through Hollywood , Petherbridge for his ‘ pop-up guide to the theatrical imagination ’ seems to have taken Ronnie Corbett 's rambling monologues as his model . |
| 18 | Across the stretch of water are the three other islands , the Střelecký , where archers trained in their craft ; the Dětský or Jews ' Island , now given over to a children 's playground ; and the Slovanský which used to have a fine dance hall . |
| 19 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 20 | But first of all , soak the brains for four hours ( lambs ' or calves ' ) , changing the water every 30 minute , and pick off any skin or blood vessels . |
| 21 | Similarly , in order to construct a notion of ‘ genre ’ , it is necessary to generalise across experience and determine what it is that is common to fairy stories , chats , news broadcasts , epic poems , debates or salesmen 's routines which enables us to recognise one as being a token of the generalised type . |
| 22 | By then , though , many communities had their clubs and institutes , among the few places of pleasure on their barren landscape , or miners ' " casinos ' , as one aggrieved Durham clergyman called them . |
| 23 | Once it would have been greeted with disbelief , and even now it is bound to jolt those who watched the original , anarchic troupe of strolling players perform works like Joe 's Drum or Wee Red Hen in community venues or miners ' welfare halls , and who followed with greater or lesser sympathy John McGrath 's attempts to identify a Scottish theatrical idiom for the mixture of radical politics and popular culture he aimed to put on stage . |
| 24 | No profit and loss account or directors ' report is required to be filed with the Registrar for a small company . |
| 25 | The first you asked again about , er , directors ' salaries er , or directors ' er er remuneration erm , and I would only say that all the directors are er bonuses are linked to earnings per share . |
| 26 | Over a third had moved , roughly half into their children 's or grandchildren 's homes , and half to live as ‘ lodgers ’ — sometimes with other kin — or go into institutions . |
| 27 | There is a narrow line between harness fund raising and commercial exploitation and within the thin financial margins that schools operate there may be a temptation to fudge issues and associate with producers and distributors of products that conflict with the school 's or parents ' values . |
| 28 | Even though the PTA or parents ' association may have their own management structure including a treasurer there needs to be inbuilt into the system a means of close financial supervision by the school . |
| 29 | This normal pattern of development , however , can be delayed by poor management or parents ' inability to stop themselves responding to crying and screaming . |
| 30 | Anyone who has ever participated in a voluntary organisation , youth work or parents ' association will know what a central place is taken by jumble sales and selling raffle tickets ( see Table 9.1 ) . |