Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] ' [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | TIM STEVENS / Trail Riders ' Fellowship |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Likewise , less expensive , sparkling wines from farther afield are also being brought into their own by the champagne houses ' hauteur . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were also delegates from industry associations including the Building Employers ' Federation and the Heating and Ventilating Contractors ' Association . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | SID TAVENDER / Labour Camp Survivors ' Association |
| 15 | Scottish schools dominated the Hull University Schools ' Festival , where Edinburgh Academy beat Merchiston Castle in a hard-fought final , 7-0 . |
| 16 | INTEGRATED COMPUTER SOLUTIONS ' WIDGET DATABOOK FOR MOTIF |
| 17 | Thus the criminal law defines only some types of avoidable killing as murder : it excludes , for example , deaths resulting from acts of negligence , such as employers ' failure to maintain safe working conditions in factories and mines ( Swartz 1975 ) ; or deaths resulting from an organization 's reluctance to maintain appropriate safety standards ( Erickson 1976 ) ; or deaths which result from governmental agencies ' giving environmental health risks a low priority ( Liazos 1972 ) ; or deaths resulting from drug manufacturers ' failure to conduct adequate research on new chemical compounds before embarking on aggressive marketing campaigns ( Silverman and Lee 1974 ) ; or deaths from a dangerous drug that was approved by health authorities on the strength of a bribe from a pharmaceutical company ( Braithwaite and Geis 1981 ) ; or deaths resulting from car manufacturers refusing to recall and repair thousands of known defective vehicles because they calculate that the costs of meeting civil damages will be less ( Swigert and Farrell 1981 ) ; and in most jurisdictions deaths resulting from drunken or reckless people driving cars with total indifference to the potential cost in terms of human lives are also excluded . |
| 18 | The latest killing , in which a teenager was shot in the head by gunmen in a shop on the Stewartstown Road in west Belfast , was part of an apparent escalation of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters ' murder campaign . |
| 19 | Mr Bragge was applying for an injunction on behalf of French champagne producers Taittinger and the champagne growers ' association , to prevent Mr Woodall and his partner , Mr Ray Bevan , 39 , selling their product in bottles labelled ‘ champagne ’ . |
| 20 | The extent of British defence cuts is still anyone 's guess , even in Whitehall ; but the Defence Manufacturers ' Association reckons real annual spending will fall to about 75% of 1990 's figure within five years . |
| 21 | Brian Scott , secretary of the Processed Vegetable Growers ' Association , comments : ‘ It is n't easy and yields are very variable . |
| 22 | Curtis said he learned how to grow the mushrooms from a widely available book called the Mushroom Growers ' Guide . |
| 23 | He helped form the midweek walkers ' club for retired friends who shared his love of walking and it was after one of their regular meetings that he died . |
| 24 | Absent this year is the rich range of June drawings exhibitions timed to distract buyers from the major auction houses ' summer sales , leaving only Bellinger 's , and , in early July , Flavia Ormond 's . |
| 25 | The garbage giants ' advantage was their ability to meet new environmental standards requiring safer , costlier methods of disposal . |
| 26 | Seventy three per cent of them believe that inadequate resources are a key issue facing higher education , according to the survey , which was conducted by Gallup and commissioned by NATFHE , the university and college lecturers ' union . |
| 27 | The question of the Rent Acts ' regulation of tenancies is in the main irrelevant , since this legislation applies primarily to domestic tenancies , and business tenancies are outside the scope of the Rent Acts . |
| 28 | At the age of twenty-one he moved to London , working briefly as a civil engineer before joining the Admiralty hydrographers ' department . |
| 29 | But then think through the logic from the football authorities ' perspective . |
| 30 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |