Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] of [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ True ’ workers ' control will never spring into existence in fully fledged form and socialists must fight , within the present society , for democratic measures which can help to ‘ de-mystify ’ management and raise radical questions concerning the organisation of work and the goals of production , whether these measures involve the accountability of managerial agents or the promotion of workers ' plans .
2 But the University was n't responsible for the cuts or the erosion of lecturers ' salaries .
3 The assumption that once women had freedom from fear of pregnancy they 'd like men and they 'd like sex , just like that , meant neither sex nor men nor the economics of women 's powerlessness had to change .
4 Yet if one accepts that a number of very accomplished poets remained firmly off the routes of mainstream development , it must be accepted that the history of women 's poetry , and of poetry in general through the eighteenth century , has been interpreted in a simplistic manner .
5 While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians .
6 Now the distinctness of the ALT patterns making up P and Q means that the sets of booleans unc and unc both partition the states satisfying b according to these shapes .
7 Taking data on all full-time manual workers , figure 10.2 shows that the ratio of women 's hourly pay to men 's suddenly rose in the mid-1970s from the level it seems to have previously held over recorded history , 60 per cent , to over 70 per cent in 1977 , a level more or less maintained subsequently .
8 In Table 3.3 we can see that the ratio of banks ' holdings of ‘ base money ’ to total assets/liabilities is rather less than 1 per cent .
9 This is a change from the discussion paper , which envisaged that the components of shareholders ' funds ( such as the share premium account ) would be allocated between equity and non-equity .
10 It should be emphasized that the interpretation of users ' actions is to some extent context-driven .
11 Examples like these make it appear that the performance of manufacturers ' software can always be bettered .
12 It recommended that the pace of girls ' education be slowed , that physical education reflect the need of girls for ‘ smoothness and expressiveness ’ and of boys for ‘ strength and energy ’ , and that allowance be made for the effect of menstruation , which condemned many girls ‘ to a recurring and temporary diminution of general mental efficiency ’ .
13 It is hoped that the level of tutors ' honoraria fairly reflects their responsibilities to students .
14 These included : that the diversity of pupils ' abilities should be recognised , and a ‘ differentiated curriculum ’ and range of examination papers provided ; that the quality of the maths teaching force be improved — by the recruitment and retention of more well-qualified mathematicians through financial incentives , flexible salary structures and guarantees of employment , and through increases in in-service training and support ; that the subject should be approached by teachers in a variety of different ways , including exposition , discussion , practical work and problem solving , as well as mental and oral work ; and that curriculum materials be developed reflecting a ‘ foundation list ’ of mathematical topics identified by the committee .
15 The women claim that the existence of commoners ' rights invalidates the defence bylaws under which thousands have been fined or imprisoned for trespassing inside the base .
16 Even more laudable is the awareness of many difference researchers that the problem of women 's speech is not so much how it is as how it is valued .
17 In this chapter , I have argued against the natural ability of black sportsmen theory and offered the bones of an alternative , suggesting that the intensity of blacks ' involvement with sport stems from their perception of restricted opportunities in other major occupational areas .
18 Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls .
19 In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension .
20 Now that the firing of horses ' legs has been banned by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for soft tissue injuries , this has effectively removed that type of treatment .
21 We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take .
22 It is assumed that the nature of members ' complaints against their union is such as to warrant special support , but why is this so ?
23 It is also interesting to note that the value of women 's unpaid housework as a percentage of GNP is estimated at 33 per cent in India , this is compared with 23 per cent in the US .
24 17.69 It is axiomatic that the context of children 's learning is significant .
25 Once Wordsworth could believe that the sound of angels ' wings comforted childhood sleep but now , thanks to Dr Freud , the belief is that childhood imagination is an extended video nasty , with unacknowledged lusts and cravings giving way to fantasies of violence and the visitation of mutants .
26 The court circular announced within three months of the Altrincham criticisms that the business of debutantes ' presentation at court would be ended .
27 It is no use any hon. Member saying that the length of miners ' hours has nothing to do with safety .
28 It seems to me that the growth of women 's art and its imagery wrests a place for female utterance within the symbolic order , from which Lacanian theory on the whole excludes the female .
29 We found that the pattern of boys ' attitudes to the police were consistent with those of adults , Blacks and Whites tending to be similar , and Asians slightly more favourable than the others .
30 At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ .
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