Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the sum which the Lord Chancellor has indicated he has to find by way of savings in the legal aid scheme to meet Treasury targets in 1993/4 . |
| 2 | An increased ceiling was also to apply in respect of rebates for the community charge ( poll tax ) which was being introduced in England and Wales from April 1 , 1990 , to replace domestic rates [ see below ] . |
| 3 | You have to look at quality of earnings over the next decade , not over the next year . |
| 4 | This can be used to reinforce the differences between preference and ordinary shares although in this case the explanation does not lie in that direction as there are no preference shares ; rather the explanation is more to do with stability of dividends in an attempt to bolster shareholders ' confidence . |
| 5 | But unsatisfactory in what respect : as representatives of a body established to negotiate on behalf of employees with management acting on behalf of owners ; or as representatives of the union but charged , along with representatives of the owners , with the corporate responsibility for the performance of the enterprise ? |
| 6 | Back in the mid-1970s , Philip Rowntree gave me the funds to establish the Low Pay Unit ( LPU ) to campaign on behalf of workers in Wage Council industries . |
| 7 | To inform teachers and academics of the work of Amnesty International and in particular to encourage them to campaign on behalf of colleagues around the world who are victims of human rights abuses . |
| 8 | The mental health charity MIND had already canvassed the idea of taking the opportunity presented by the decline in the population of the hospitals to argue for sale of parcels of land in order to fund community services . |
| 9 | This is subject to the minor exceptions in subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , and to adaptations when a private company has validly elected under section 252 to dispense with laying of accounts before general meetings or when shareholders of listed companies have elected under section 251 to receive summary financial statements instead . |
| 10 | On Friday , August 13 , I was asked by your reporter to respond to criticism of banks by the Consumers ' Association . |
| 11 | Would be easing , so to speak in sort of units of horses or electricity . |
| 12 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |