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

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1 Because wages are part of the employers ' costs , which they must seek to minimise if they are to survive , workers experience a ceaseless downward pressure on their standards of living .
2 After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff .
3 Latterly he has been director of the Actors ' Centre in London .
4 But New Forum , the leading force in the independent opposition movement , remained sceptical yesterday , saying that the offer could be part of the Communists ' attempt to regain the initiative .
5 To Marian it seemed that she and Allen were being overwhelmed and carried along by the rush of sound and the race of the sun up the sky , as though they were part of the birds ' song and the general triumphant awakening of the dawn .
6 I know from experience that one of the frustrations of being head of the Children 's Book Foundation is that however bright and brilliant Julia Eccleshare 's Children 's Books of the Year is , no one seems to buy it .
7 Leading business representatives have access through many different channels being members of the Employers ' Federation , trade associations , industrial associations or public advisory bodies , not to mention regular contact through LDP research groups .
8 The defendants were members of the Musicians ' Union , a union with many coloured members , and they gave notice to the plaintiffs that members of the union would not be permitted to play at the ballroom so long as the colour bar was in operation .
9 While compassion and concern were hallmarks of the churches ' approach to the victims of HIV and AIDS , he went on , the central message of the churches remained the same .
10 It is part of the players ' contracts that all the semi-finalists must turn up to the function after the World Open title .
11 I remember when my mum and dad were on this committee , actually the this records department is part of the Libraries ' erm , committee 's responsibility , records sub used to be there , and used to regularly meet and that used to deal with it .
12 SHEFFIELD United forward Brian Marwood is being frozen out of football — because he 's boss of the players ' union .
13 The Nursing Agencies Forum at the RCN is evidence of the agencies ' rise to respectability , and it is no longer the case that ‘ those who can , do ; those who ca n't , work for agencies ’ .
14 Although Mr de Klerk is accused by the ANC of meddling with the list to get his own people in , there is no doubt that the days when the SABC was part of the Nationalists ' mighty propaganda machine are over .
15 From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization .
16 In 1904 she was president of the Women 's Local Government Society .
17 Shanks was president of the Mechanics ' Institute of St Helens .
18 Within months of his marriage his wife , Florence , was leader of the women 's social services .
19 Her parents were prominent local business people ; her mother was chairperson of the Parents ' Association .
20 From 1913 to 1918 she was secretary of the Women 's Labour League , and strongly defended the need for separate women 's political organizations , at least until women had acquired political experience and maturity comparable with that of men .
21 His father was active in City companies , and was master of the Carpenters ' Company in 1906 .
22 Mary Neal , a leading protagonist of the folk-dance movement , was also the organizer of the Esperance Guild for working girls , which she had founded jointly with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence [ q.v. ] , who was treasurer of the Women 's Social and Political Union .
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