Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONLY through concrete policy changes will the quality of human life for women in Sudan be changed , Fatima Ibrahim , President of the Sudanese Women 's Union , told AI 's annual conference on Women and Human Rights . |
| 2 | The Delegation was composed of seven women : Margarita Papandreou ( Women for Mutual Security , and Global Co-ordinator of the Delegation ) ; myself — Nawal El Saadawi ( writer , medical doctor and President of the Arab Women 's Solidarity Association ) ; Fatheya Seoudi ( Women 's Centre , Jordan ) ; Joan Drake ( Institute of Policy Studies in Washington and Madrea , Latin America ) ; Maude Barlow ( Voice of Women — Canada , Women World Parliamentarians for Peace ) ; Flora Abrachmanova ( World Democratic Federation of Women ) and Kay Kamp ( Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom ) . |
| 3 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 4 | As a result of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 , and later Acts , the capacity of a married woman to own property , to make contracts , and to incur liability for torts was different from that of a man . |
| 5 | On Feb. 14 the US government filed fresh corruption charges against Gotti , several other alleged Mafia leaders and six branches of the International Longshoremen 's Association . |
| 6 | The Harewood House charity auction , hosted by the Queen 's cousin the Earl of Harewood , is in aid of a new children 's day hospital in Leeds . |
| 7 | On Saturday , Princess Margaret , in her capacity as patron of the Scottish Ballet , will attend a gala performance at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow in aid of the Scottish Children 's League , of which she is president . |
| 8 | Another was sent by the Chairman of the local Children 's Panel Advisory Committee . |
| 9 | There was a former junior Home Office Minister , Earl Jellicoe , from the Lords ; with the voluntary side of the Party being represented by Mrs Adelaide Doughty , chairman of the National Women 's Advisory Committee , and Mrs Lucille Iremonger , a journalist and wife of a Conservative MP . |
| 10 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 11 | This originally appeared as part of a Fabian Women 's Group report based upon research from 1909 – 13 into the daily lives of families living in Lambeth . |
| 12 | This became law immediately in England and Wales , and is part of the new Children 's Act . |
| 13 | It became a part of the official women 's movement and was able to push for the rights of the professional woman artist . |
| 14 | AS PART of the Scottish women 's squad training , a Bulgarian national ladies ' team is visiting Scotland this week . |
| 15 | This points to the existence of a distinctive women 's politics and culture prior to the entry of the term feminism into linguistic usage . |
| 16 | The only campaign undertaken by mainstream feminists in the late nineteenth century to improve the position of wives was in support of the Married Women 's Property Acts , which aided only middle class women . |
| 17 | Family Allowance , or Child Benefit as a modified version of it is now known , has not always had the unequivocal support of the entire women 's movement . |
| 18 | In January 1987 a branch of the Young Women 's Association was formed with Mrs Averil Capper as president , Mrs Norma Burke as vice-president , Mrs Sylvia Courtney as secretary and Mrs Gale Davison as treasurer . |
| 19 | In John v. Matthews ( 1970 D.C. ) a packet of cigarettes , displayed in the bar of a working men 's club bore the statement ‘ 3d. off . ’ |
| 20 | The opposition to Raybestos was unusual in that it involved the formation of an autonomous women 's group , in which up to 30 women became involved . |
| 21 | OXFORD university students were branded ‘ over-privileged plonkers ’ by the editor of a top women 's magazine yesterday after a debate turned into a drunken farce . |
| 22 | The historical significance of this book is therefore multi-levelled : it is a reminder of the intellectual scope of one of America 's leading feminist art historians , it testifies to the changing interests of the discipline of the history of art and , perhaps most importantly , it charts the developing priorities and concerns of the American women 's movement . |
| 23 | Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event . |
| 24 | B.Butcher , the general secretary of one of the most stable and better run of the local seamen 's organisations of the time , made no bones about his own experience . |
| 25 | A mid-week meeting with a member of Diana 's circle in the incongruous circumstances of a working men 's cafe in North Ruislip outside London was the turning point . |
| 26 | They visibly sharpened at the end of the decade as medics were forced onto the defensive by a growing feminist campaign demanding the repeal of the acts — itself part of the wider upsurge of the mid-Victorian women 's movement . |
| 27 | It only missed hitting an oncoming white sports-car by inches and by the swiftness of the young sports-car-driver 's reaction . |
| 28 | EVER since Neil Adams retired , Densign White has been the spokesman and leader of the British men 's judo squad . |
| 29 | Similarly prolific and passionate in their dedication were Canon Roger Lloyd , author of , among other works , The Fascination of Railways , Canon Reginald Fellows , researcher into the history of Bradshaw , Canon Victor Whitechurch , creator of the fictional railway detective Thorpe Hazell , and Revd Wilbert Awdrey , author of the much-loved children 's books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends . |
| 30 | Curious subject matter for a children 's picture book , you might think , and hardly guaranteed to win the approval of the gimlet-eyed children 's book world . |