Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 CGI Corp , US subsidiary of the Faris company , will present a resolution at Computer Horizons ' May 5 annual shareholders ' meeting to ‘ modify or terminate ’ Computer Horizons ' shareholder rights plan and the golden parachutes in place to give the top officers a handsome pay-off should the company be acquired .
2 William Terris ' ghost seemed to have an affinity with Mr Hayden because the foreman saw him nearly every day in some part of the station for some two years .
3 Workmen from the Maintenance Department , which is responsible for the smooth running of the lifts and escalators in the station , have seen William Terris ' ghost on numerous occasions as they work mostly at night so that their work causes the least interference with the travelling public .
4 Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back .
5 Certainly , it was the effects of such rising social tensions and widespread industrial conflict which motivated the giant Siemens company in the electrical engineering industry to join the metalworking employers ' association ( Homburg , 1983 ) .
6 ( Interestingly , in the car industry , although Ford has never belonged to an association in Britain nevertheless in Germany it is an active member of the metalworking employers ' association and follows the terms of its negotiated agreements . )
7 TIM STEVENS / Trail Riders ' Fellowship
8 After the contra field commanders ' rejection of their exiled political leaders , and as a result of Washington 's loss of leverage , the estimated 12,000-strong force has become an even more unpredictable element in a complex equation .
9 It could be the Slaters ’ and Tilers ' Institute of Cheshire , Lancashire Floor-Coverers Association , The Duke of Gisburn 's Light Cavalry Eleven 's Re-Union Dinner , Haslingden Plunge Bath Attendants ' Monthly Meeting , Wellingborough Skin Lifters ' Society , or the like .
10 The general concept of Kinmount , with its vast Soanic central saloon rising into a tribune gallery and a lantern tower , was reproduced in neo-Tudor form as his ambitious enlargement of Saltoun , East Lothian ( 1817 ) ; without the lantern tower , at his neo-Classical Adderston , Northumberland ( 1819 ) and the much larger Camperdown , Dundee ( 1821–28 ) ; and , at Blairquhan , Ayrshire ( 1820 ) where he retained the lantern tower but began to experiment with asymmetrical planning and to adopt more archaeologically correct Tudor forms , following the example of William Wilkins ' Tregothnan ( 1816 ) and Dalmeny ( 1814 ) .
11 GEORGE MILLS / Gary Mills ' Brother
12 We discuss , instead , literary genius and smack daddy William Burroughs ' involvement with Ministry .
13 Likewise , less expensive , sparkling wines from farther afield are also being brought into their own by the champagne houses ' hauteur .
14 The strike by the staff of the School of Food and Consumer Studies will go ahead as planned tomorrow and the union , the University Lecturers ' Association , is drawing up proposals to spread the industrial action throughout the university .
15 Earlier this week the members of the University Lecturers ' Association at the school , where Mrs Falconer 's post as a senior textiles lecturer is being made compulsorily redundant , voted 19-2 for the one-day strike , with the threat of escalating their action next week .
16 There were also delegates from industry associations including the Building Employers ' Federation and the Heating and Ventilating Contractors ' Association .
17 Some companies may use the standard form of ’ Labour-only subcontract ’ issued by the Building Employers ' Confederation , in place of or alongside their own terms and conditions .
18 Head of the Building Employers ' Confederation , Sir Brian Hill , on Tuesday called on the Government to raise the threshold of mortgage tax relief , now £30,000 , for a limited period and abolish stamp duty on house purchases .
19 End the limbo : Maginnis Maginnis ' way ahead
20 A seminar for practitioners and other professionals has been organised by the British Academy of Forensic Sciences , the Criminal Bar Association and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors ' Association on the subject , ‘ False Confession ; False Evidence — can psychiatrists assist the courts ? . ’
21 It includes representatives of professional associations [ the London Criminal Courts Solicitors ' Association , the Criminal Law Solicitors ' Association , the Legal Aid Practitioners ' Group and the Institute of Legal Executives ] , the Legal Aid Board and academic institutions , [ the College of Law and the University of the West of England ] .
22 This work is accomplished by manually digitizing the field surveyors ' Master Survey Drawing ( MSD ) which consists of the current published map sheet plus amendments noted by the surveyors .
23 Thus Emerson 's career breaks into three parts : his years as a champion and at the top of the FI drivers ' hit parade , his years as an unhappy and frustrated team-manager and his last years as an itinerant driver in search of a lost career .
24 The Italian Transport Minister , Carlo Bernini , said on Sept. 19 that an agreement had been reached with the truck drivers ' union under which all drivers seeking transit permits would be able to cross until the end of the year .
25 Jim Almonds ' jeep caught fire and several men were wounded .
26 Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea .
27 David Kossoff , who played the Baker brothers ' father , still remembers the impression that Crawford left on him .
28 Pan Books ' spokesman Martin Neild tells me : ‘ I would n't like to comment officially , because it 's so terribly difficult to tell — you 've got to take into account overseas sales , borrowings from foreign libraries and so on . ’
29 ( London University Examiners ' Report : A level History , 1981 , p.359 )
30 ( London University Examiners ' Report : A level History , 1981 , p.361 )
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