Example sentences of "' [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the window was deep porcelain sink stained with the detritus of seventy years ' washing-up and impossible to clean adequately . |
| 2 | It set out therefore to ensure , in consultation with the DES , that surveying came within the polytechnics ' orbit and that ‘ centres of excellence ’ for surveying education were established . |
| 3 | On company cars , he continued the policy of his predecessor , Mr Nigel Lawson , in recognising that perks provided by employers are just as much part of employees ' remuneration as salaries are , and should therefore be just as taxable . |
| 4 | It would , furthermore , be difficult to justify the scale of directors ' remuneration if the recipients did not possess comparatively scarce abilities , and it would , if only for that reason , be surprising if directors were themselves to deny the possession of special skills . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the auditors ' remuneration and expenses charge fell from £895,000 to £785,000 . |
| 6 | The annual report should also give information on directors ' remuneration and the cost of non-audit services provided by the auditor . |
| 7 | non-recurring costs incurred in 19XX , 19XX and 19XX , including the directors ' remuneration and related employer 's national insurance contributions ; |
| 8 | If you 're fed up with poor food , consult The Good Food Guide 1991 , by Tom Jaine ( Consumers ' Association/Hodder & Stoughton , £12.95 ) , giving details of the best value restaurants . |
| 9 | A disagreement over patients ' preparation and post-operational recovery regime resulted in Daniel leaving his father in 1763 to set up on his own at Ingatestone , Essex . |
| 10 | Lawyer moved his lodge into the centre of the commissioners ' camp and , under his influence , the chiefs seemed ready to sign . |
| 11 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 12 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 13 | There , I learned , the churchyard was closed to burials , although her ashes might be interred — not in her parents ' grave as I had asked — but in the church 's garden of remembrance . |
| 14 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 15 | The phenomenon drew comment from nearly all the booksellers taking part in the survey , looming larger in most booksellers ' experience than the formerly familiar threat of expansion by the chains ( although the latter phenomenon has obviously not disappeared , with Jarrolds , in particular , awaiting the arrival of a 10,000 sq ft Dillons store in Norwich with a certain apprehension ) . |
| 16 | Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary . |
| 17 | She knew from thirty years ' experience that bullies were a breed apart . |
| 18 | This study will continue the analysis of data on aspects of Unit infants ' experience that might explain the developmental strengths and weaknesses demonstrated in the main study . |
| 19 | Secondly , we can turn to Berger and Mohr 's account of migrants ' experience as they travel from an economically peripheral society to a thriving industrial economy in Western Europe . |
| 20 | However , this will not preclude other world faiths from that particular discrete area of the curriculum should their introduction be appropriate to the childrens ' experience or the particular theme , topic or unit of work being studied . |
| 21 | He said that after 3 ½ years of competition between British Telecom and the Cable and Wireless subsidiary , Mercury Communications , it was time to survey customers ' experience and , if necessary , ‘ identify practices which might still be inhibiting competition ’ . |
| 22 | But some distillation of the authors ' experience and wisdom would have been welcome . |
| 23 | International book-building puts a premium on intermediaries ' experience and ability to sell to 300-odd investing institutions around the world . |
| 24 | However , this book does more than foreground girls ' experience and the culture of femininity . |
| 25 | The Director of Studies expressed an interest in how much three dimensional ( 3D ) work was included in pupils ' experience and was dissatisfied with what he was told . |
| 26 | This one-term course is intended for practising UK and overseas teachers with two years ' experience and good English . |
| 27 | A Yorkshire pay clerk 's widow was able to play a ‘ big part ’ in her granddaughters ' upbringing because she lived next door across a common yard and could be ‘ always there ’ , in and out of the house . |
| 28 | In a recent report no difference was found between the effects of perindopril and nifedipine on patients ' microalbuminuria and blood pressure over one year . |
| 29 | We studied the effect of adding increasing doses of salbutamol to salmeterol 50 , 100 , and 200 µg to examine the drugs ' interaction and estimate dose equivalence . |
| 30 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |