Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mary Daly , for example , in GynlEcology , sometimes writes as if most women were really little more than the programmed , robotic puppets to which women were reduced in Ira Levin 's novel The Stepford Wives ; the language of ‘ fembots ’ and ‘ mutants ’ and ‘ puppets ’ , whilst intended , I am sure , to enunciate a critique of women 's oppressors , veers perilously near to sounding like contempt for those who are subject to that oppression . |
| 2 | I do n't think that after the triumph , we are going to experience a drop in women 's involvement . |
| 3 | The Financial Times , which accorded WHS ' ‘ poor figures ’ only three short paragraphs , nevertheless managed to include a mention of analysts ' concern at the decline in margins and disappointments at the tone of the post-results meeting . |
| 4 | The submission calls for changes that will require all companies to include a statement of directors ' responsibilities in their annual reports . |
| 5 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 6 | Women interested in being their own boss are invited to attend a seminar in Women 's Skills offices , Sun Alliance House , from 9.30am to 3.30pm tomorrow . |
| 7 | It will be used by owners , and other users for making decisions in respect of continued investment in that enterprise and help them to form a judgement of managers ' performance etc . |
| 8 | A Cleveland council leader criticised new regulations forcing councils to publish a register of members ' Page 4 . |
| 9 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |
| 10 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 11 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 12 | To be effective , political advertising needs to be undertaken well in advance of elections , to fix an image in voters ' minds ahead of the campaign itself . |
| 13 | For example a curriculum leader in a small primary school leads a small group to scrutinise a selection of pupils ' work from different year groups to examine progression and continuity and their relation to the National Curriculum a department in a secondary school reviews its curricular provision ; assesses the implications of the National Curriculum for that subject ; analyses policies and practice on pupil assessment ; analyses examination/test results ; reviews pupils ' written work to check on progression and continuity a team considers relations with parents and the wider community the head , a deputy or a senior teacher leads a working party on topics such as cross-curricular issues , curriculum provision as a whole , pupil attendance , school documentation the staff development or INSET co-ordinator leads a working party to review staff development , INSET provision and dissemination , teacher appraisal , care of probationer teachers ( DES 1989e:8 ) . |
| 14 | He 'd managed to grab a couple of hours ' sleep in the cell since they 'd brought him in , but it was scarcely enough to refresh him . |
| 15 | IRELAND is to hold a referendum on women 's rights to go abroad for abortions and to obtain information in Ireland before doing so . |
| 16 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 17 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 18 | The overall objective of this research is to develop a profile of children 's early vocabulary development based upon both comprehension and production data . |
| 19 | It is therefore possible for a defendant in a negligence action to raise a defence of volenti non fit injuria , but consent to the risk in question can not be inferred merely from the other party 's knowledge of the purported exclusion . |
| 20 | The opposition also expressed concern that political parties would be required to pay a deposit of francs CFA30,000,000 ( US$157,800 ) . |
| 21 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 22 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 23 | Thus , to get a picture of pupils ' understanding of what a triangle is , it is not sufficient to ask them to name one exemplar ( especially if it is a special case such as an equilateral triangle ) , nor to draw one exemplar , for they are likely to draw a special case . |
| 24 | This is bound to have an effect on publishers ' conceptions of the market . |
| 25 | They continue to have an impact on women 's involvement in public religion and on social attitude towards ‘ the female ’ . |
| 26 | we had to spend a couple of years erm longer at school . |
| 27 | Woolworth 's are appealing to shoppers to return a make of children 's sandal which has been found to be faulty . |
| 28 | PNGWIM , with Lady Nennie Tololo from Boroko as newly-elected Chairperson , hopes to compile a directory of women 's groups , publish a booklet on gender issues in media education and establish contact with existing women 's networks . |
| 29 | For example , the QUESTOR command : PRINT FROM EMP INCLUDE NAME , BIRTHDATE ! tells the system to print a list of employees ' names and birthdates . |
| 30 | A significant proportion of the public must have the impression that their library services are regularly prey to the ad hoc , impulsive indulgence of liberal/authoritarian , prurient/puritanical , left-wing/right-wing librarians , rather than guided by a set of selection policies trying to achieve a balance of users ' and nonusers ' educational and leisure needs and preferences , circumscribed by statutory requirements , within the limits of financial reality . |