Example sentences of "' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Worthing hopes to convert four of its eight dustcarts with sponsorship from the Institute of Grocery Distribution , the supermarkets ' think-tank , to extend the service to half the town . |
| 2 | She left her girls ' boarding school ( St Mary 's , Calne ) without any notion of saving the planet , and did a number of well-bred girls ' things in London and Paris — Harrods ' toy department , a cordon bleu course , door-to-door sales , modelling — before starting what she regards as her first proper job , in an advertising agency 's information department . |
| 3 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 4 | A waiting list for one of Doreen Copas ' daytime classes from the ‘ 83–84 session formed the nucleus of another new Class . |
| 5 | Under the window was deep porcelain sink stained with the detritus of seventy years ' washing-up and impossible to clean adequately . |
| 6 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 7 | The Hooker collection charts not only the claims of obsolete products but also the swell of public sentiment during two world wars , as well as some prize not-in-front-of-the-children examples of publicans ' ribaldry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 10 | In 1927 , Professor Elton Mayo of Harvard University designed an experiment about the relationship between working conditions , workers ' tiredness , and their productivity . |
| 11 | When the Bank of Scotland had threatened to imprison his Constable partner Robert Cadell in Calton Hill Gaol , Cadell took refuge in the debtors ' sanctuary at Holyrood — where Thomas de Quincey had also stayed for some time . |
| 12 | Cats and cat statues were worshipped , and mummified cats were buried with much ceremony in the goddess ' sanctuary at Bubastis . |
| 13 | Minister visits endangered birds ' sanctuary |
| 14 | The influence of television on second-rank politicians ' visibility is confirmed by a more detailed trend analysis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |
| 17 | Occasionally , a Bill will be abandoned as was the Judges ' Remuneration Bill 1953 , which proposed tax-free salaries for judges . |
| 18 | They also restore small companies ' exemption from the requirement to disclose auditors ' remuneration in the abbreviated accounts . |
| 19 | Another argument in favour of fees over commission is that there will be more incentive for stockbrokers to take a real interest in their clients ' portfolios , since any increase in their value will bear directly on the brokers ' remuneration . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the auditors ' remuneration and expenses charge fell from £895,000 to £785,000 . |
| 21 | The financial press has devoted much space to the 54% increase in chief executive Greg Hutchings ' remuneration to £995,000 ( v £646,000 ) . |
| 22 | The annual report should also give information on directors ' remuneration and the cost of non-audit services provided by the auditor . |
| 23 | At first sight , the most time-consuming area seems to be directors ' remuneration details . |
| 24 | In the notes to the accounts for the year ended 30 June 1992 , the pharmaceuticals group has analysed directors ' remuneration under fees , performance-related payments , other emoluments , pension scheme contributions , payment to former director and pension to former director . |
| 25 | By 1978 , thanks largely to Roche , Heidrick and Struggles were earning higher total fees than any other search firm ; charging 33.3% of the successful candidates ' remuneration , these reached $13.5m . |
| 26 | The majority of these items related to solicitors ' charges , other professional advisers ' charges or receivers ' remuneration . |
| 27 | We do not think the criterion can be put any better or more clearly than it is put in R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) and would hold that , on the true construction of the 18 February 1985 mortgage , the defendants are entitled to be paid or to retain out of the mortgaged property all their actual costs , charges and expenses ( including the receivers ' remuneration ) except in so far they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and with any doubts as to whether the costs have been reasonably incurred or are reasonable in amount being resolved in favour of the defendants . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) The defendants have a contractual right to retain out of the mortgage funds in hand their costs , charges and expenses , including the receivers ' remuneration , on an indemnity basis . |
| 29 | In In re Laceward Ltd. [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 133 Slade J. went further and held the expression ‘ proceedings to recover costs ’ in the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 ( S.I . |
| 30 | The auditors ' remuneration must be fixed or determined in some way by the company in general meeting . |