Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed recent surveys by the National Foundation for Educational Research have revealed that there is often a great deal of confusion in pupils ' minds , particularly as so many educational programmes for history now employ dramatic reconstruction .
2 Initially , as many men have recounted , there was a great deal of prejudice about women 's military capacities :
3 Under the Bill , responsibility for the administration of funding for nurses ' education will be transferred from the national boards of Wales , Scotland and England to health authorities and health boards .
4 I am encouraged in my hope by the fact that insects frequently visit bright blobs of colour on women 's dresses ( and also by more systematic experiments that have been published ) .
5 Chodorow suggests that the concentration of childcare in women 's hands brings daughters to identify symbiotically with their mothers , and to carry this interdependency and need for mutual mothering into future relationships , most especially with their own children .
6 He posits a difference in the attitude to risk on the part of management on the one hand and shareholders on the other , the former being much more risk averse than the latter , given the effect of insolvency on managers ' jobs and on the value of their shareholdings in the company ( which often constitute a considerable proportion of their total wealth ) , together with the possibility of personal liability in the event of winding up .
7 FORENSIC scientists are using techniques originally developed to catch arsonists to detect traces of glue in sniffers ' blood .
8 Such a code would be concerned with a commonsense size of user party , but it might equally address issues such as litter removal ( incl. bags of salt and empty whisky bottles ) , defaecating against outside walls and the drawing of genitalia in visitors ' books .
9 As Venables issued his plea , Alan Sugar delivered a vote of confidence to Spurs ' management team of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence .
10 Possessors of the book and of good memories could become the lions of weather-talk on commuters ' trains .
11 The particular contribution of the teaching of French to pupils ' perceptions will be explored through observation by a researcher based in the two schools over a period of at least six months .
12 PNP policy was embedded in the broader framework of Authority-thinking about children 's needs , the curriculum , teaching strategies , classroom practice , school management and home-school relationships .
13 He asked for and was sent Sketches of Anatomy for Artists ' Use , and struggled to teach himself the complexities of bones and muscles by endless copying .
14 Obscenities have a kind of magic in children 's circles and they can be certain of raising shrieks of laughter from their friends , just by saying them aloud .
15 She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before .
16 Even in Liverpool , which had some eighty years experience of organization to protect the shipowning interest in parliament , there was " an utter and lamentable want of cohesion among employers ' on matters affecting labour .
17 But the greatest blow to the dictates of fashion on women 's dress came with the World War I. Although Laura Ashley had , unconsciously , much in common with the nineteenth-century dress reformers it is ironic that their efforts towards change were entangled inextricably with the organized struggles for the rights of women ; women , to be taken seriously , had to dress in a more robust , sensible manner , they stated — an argument amply demonstrated by their usefulness in wartime .
18 The 20-page revised document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Children 's Residential Care , describes forms of permissible restraint , including holding a child 's arm or holding the child against a wall , but says such force should never be used punitively and should reflect the needs of individual situations .
19 Since most Western societies are liberal in outlook , cherishing the proposition that ‘ we 're all individuals ’ , it is not surprising that the early , uncompromising identification of sexism with women 's oppression was quickly challenged and replaced with the notion of individuals being oppressed by their restrictive sex roles .
20 Chapter 13 identifies two key concepts in the law of challenge to experts ' decisions : ( 1 ) the law of contract ; and ( 2 ) mistake .
21 Implied terms underpin the law of challenge to experts ' decisions , because some basic terms are not spelled out : namely , that the parties would not accept a final decision intended to have binding effect when that decision was vitiated by dishonesty , partiality or mistake .
22 The effects of care-giving on women 's paid employment and living standards , as described below , lend further weight to this argument .
23 For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real .
24 In what ways would your reading have been altered by the following instructions : ( a ) Find out about the effects of industry on workers ' standards of living .
25 There are significant differences in the degree of inequality between men 's and women 's earnings within the same occupation .
26 In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . "
27 From each country 's findings , Bjornsson derived a lix score which seemed to represent " normal difficulty " from a range of material including children 's books , factual prose ( written for non-specialists ) and technical literature .
28 The discussion opened with the ( as it turned out ) vexed question of politics in women 's film-making .
29 It has also become the focus of protest for miners ' support groups all over Lancashire and further afield , as demonstrated by the early arrival of three young members of Lancaster Miners ' Support Group in a transit van .
30 Now if there is no problem why on earth do we have to put that sort of that sort of work by officers erm , in , in to action erm , so between the , if I understand Labour 's position now Chairman , between the twenty fifth of August and the twenty eighth of September , we have now gone from accepting the problem and seeing how we can solve a number problem to saying that there is no no number problem and that everyone is cooking the books .
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