Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] of [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
2 | As standards are being finalised , consideration is given to arrangements for the assessment of candidates ' competence . |
3 | The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work . |
4 | Tom Sanders , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ' water and leisure safety adviser , says : ‘ They tend to be one-offs . |
5 | By fighting for pits to be kept open , the NUM was fighting not only for miners ' jobs but also for the survival of miners ' communities . |
6 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
7 | When the publication of HMI reports on university departments of education was discussed ( as part of the approval mechanism for teacher training courses of the Council for the Accreditation of Teachers ' Education , CATE ) there was initial resistance . |
8 | During his lively speech Mr Giles sharply criticised publishers for the overproduction of children 's books , and poured scorn on their attempt to justify their differential treatment of book clubs and supermarkets . |
9 | The Womens Artist Slide Library is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in retaining its Arts Council funding for the publication of Women 's Art Magazine and has been offered financial assistance towards the running of the organisation over the next year . |
10 | Kenneth Simpson , the Perth-based spokesman for the Society of Sheriffs ' Officers , says they are already getting results . |
11 | However , rather than serving to dissuade us from finding some base for the notion of students ' academic freedom , the epistemological grounding of the German universities holds some definite clues that are worth pursuing . |
12 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
13 | It also decided that a ‘ code of conduct ’ leaflet should be produced for the benefit of events ' organisers . |
14 | Before me there was an analysis of the arrangements that are available in other jurisdictions exercised by justices for the making of costs ' orders and for the assessment of those costs . |
15 | " Consideration should be given to the possible institution of a mechanism for the defence of citizens ' rights as regards Community matters ( " ombudsman " — a Danish proposal ) … " |
16 | As this duty had not been broken there was no room for the defence of volenti non fit injuria to operate . |
17 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the draft of the treaty at Maastricht today provides for the improvement of employees ' working conditions , for legal protection and for entitlement to consultation and to information . |
18 | The failure of the Leeds Convention 's call for the establishment of Workers ' and Soldiers ' Councils reflected the inappropriate nature of the proposed organizational structures , not the absence of popular support for peace agitation as such . |
19 | The strong controls which are necessary to enforce public accountability for the use of taxpayers ' money lead to caution , since experiments by their nature can fail . |
20 | With a statutory duty to promote standardisation , the nationalised Boards were willing to go ahead with these schemes , paying for the conversion of consumers ' apparatus as well as of their own mains , even where the returns to themselves were not adequate . |
21 | Reduced time for the idiosyncrasies of clients ' problems |
22 | ‘ Community ’ and informal care therefore provide appropriate contexts within which to argue for the value of women 's unpaid caring work to be recognised , as Land ( 1991 ) and Ungerson ( 1990 ) have recently done . |
23 | The $30,900 million budget for the Department of Veterans ' Affairs included an increase of $1,000 million in the allocation for its 172 hospitals . |
24 | Movimento Popular de Libertaçáo de Angola , Partido do Trabalho ( MPLA-PT — Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party , José Eduardo dos Santos ch. , Roberto de Almeida ideology sec . ) . |
25 | Hopes grew throughout April that a workable peace settlement might emerge from the continuing talks in Portugal between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) government and the US-backed rebel National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) . |
26 | Rising expectations of a successful conclusion of peace talks between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) were realized on May 1 , when a ceasefire was agreed and a peace agreement initialled [ see also page 38133 ] to end a civil war which had raged since independence from Portugal in 1975 . |
27 | Celebrations throughout Angola across the weekend of June 1-2 followed the signing of the May 31 peace agreement between the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) and the United States-backed rebel National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) [ for which see p. 38180 ] . |
28 | On Aug. 1 the Joint Political and Military Commission ( CCPM ) overseeing the peace process between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) government and the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) [ see p. 38180 ] , reported delays in the implementation of the accord . |
29 | UNITA accused the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) government of not fulfilling the agreement and listed seven conditions to be implemented before it would return to the CCPM . |
30 | With preparations under way for the first multiparty elections on Sept. 29-30 , the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) held its third special congress on May 7-12 . |