Example sentences of "[is] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a trend in women 's politics set , of course , by Margaret Thatcher although Virginia is naturally much more attractive . |
| 2 | There 's a couple of points er er perhaps worth making about it . |
| 3 | And the sorts of objectives that er these wars are concerned with er may be control over resources , over particular minerals , control over markets con control over trade the acquisition of territory or the recovery of lost territory and ideological or political objectives , objectives which are strictly speaking er to do with the belief system which predominates in particular states or where there 's a conflict between states er which have radically conflicting er ideologies . |
| 4 | There 's a list of girls ' names in here . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a section for Women 's Art and Industries , or we could see Royle 's Self-Pouring Teapot . |
| 6 | Right , I think I know what it is and there 's a forest of hands erm they know what it is . |
| 7 | It 's a waste of taxpayers ' money . |
| 8 | We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do . |
| 9 | The freedom to dress as we choose is a symbol of women 's liberation . |
| 10 | If proof were needed that intelligent children 's television is a friend of children 's books , the recent BBC serialisation of The Borrowers provides it amply . |
| 11 | They prattle on about equality , when really what they mean is a down-grading of women 's rights . |
| 12 | If it is a style of women 's shoe , the population memeticist may use sales statistics from shoe shops . |
| 13 | Returning to our earlier theme , we notice there is a tradeoff for shareholders ' representatives in employing a manager . |
| 14 | Wayward Girls and Wicked Women is a collection of women 's animation from the last 13 years — many of which were included in the Channel 4 animations seasons . |
| 15 | It is a cause of women 's relatively low pay and limits women 's chances by the narrow range of occupations to which they tend to be confined . |
| 16 | Berghaus is a distributor of women 's coats and jackets which are sold in western Europe and Russia . |
| 17 | I do not wish to carp but what this book lacks is a list of MPs ' secretaries together with their personal details , buttressed where necessary with photographs . |
| 18 | Andermatt too is a place for travellers ' decisions : whether to return north back to Uri , or to choose one of the other three cardinal points of the compass for further travel . |
| 19 | At the east end of the south side of the De La Warr vault at Withyham , Sussex , is a group of children 's coffins dating from the early seventeenth century . |
| 20 | In this case , the accounts are addressed to the shareholders and the balance sheet is a statement of shareholders ' financial position while the income statement is the change in shareholders ' financial position . |
| 21 | PSI , which is supported by the EPHOS guide to public procurement , is a reaction to end-users ' belief that too much time has been spent focusing on the protocol aspect of interoperability — in which users are n't at all interested . |
| 22 | In practice it is difficult to predict the precise amount by which money supply will expand if there is an increase in banks ' liquidity . |
| 23 | There is an analogy between teachers ' in-service development and the mounting evidence that intervention in pupils ' careers which take place away from their school have limited value for either pupil rehabilitation or for changes in school ethos ( Topping 1983 ) . |
| 24 | In our terms , this book is an account of migrants ' moral careers , albeit careers constrained by the demands of a thriving capitalist economy . |
| 25 | This is an analysis of countries ' environmental characteristics , and the classification of countries as ‘ hot ’ , ‘ moderate ’ or ‘ cold ’ on the basis of these characteristics . |