Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 A brief review of the impact of oil prices , external debt , financial flows and the Brandt Reports will enable readers to assess in their own minds the true nature , scale and possible solutions to LDCs ' problems .
2 Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place …
3 the effects of product market trends and regional specialisms on employers ' strategies ;
4 I see that men 's traditions are held in higher esteem and some parts of women 's lives , like cooking and making clothes and so on
5 The steady and purposeful development of pupils ' language and of their skill in its use should be a constant aim of education at all stages and levels .
6 Practical considerations , such as the difficulty of finding enough foster placements and adequate staff for children 's homes , also lent weight to arguments in favour of preventing children from coming into care .
7 Young people in care in North Wales are being deterred from making complaints about abuse because of an alleged lack of progress in investigating allegations of widespread physical and sexual abuse in children 's homes in the 1970s and 1980s , it has been claimed .
8 If pursued effectively , this consultation could lead to a planned programme of visits to classrooms or units and periodic reports of governors ' meetings by the sub-committee , the headteacher or teachers dealing with special needs in their daily work .
9 We will ease the transition from the present wasteful and inefficient price support mechanism to market prices and direct support for farmers ' incomes to achieve environmental and social goals , to be funded by savings made from the present intervention payment system .
10 These and similar articles on women 's and other pages were syndicated from agencies in Britain .
11 Jones sets out to document and to praise the distinctive historical and contemporary modes of women 's speech , ignored by linguists and trivialised culturally by terms like gossip ( which Jones proposes to reclaim ) .
12 " Artisan " could embrace many independent craftsmen trading in their own product from their own shops , but it usually covered as well those skilled manufacturers dependent on work put out by merchant capitalists and wage-earning journeymen on employers ' premises .
13 A note should be presented reconciling the opening and closing totals of shareholders ' funds of the period .
14 An immediate and obvious problem with pluralists ' methods is that in the effort to achieve falsifiability , only major visible issues reaching decisional status are used , yet of course it is possible for pre-decisional power to be used to keep grievances from becoming observable issues .
15 Parliament has given journalists the right to be present , even though the rest of the public is excluded , in the case of juvenile courts and domestic proceedings in magistrates ' courts .
16 After all , rape and/or the fear of rape is a real and constant part of women 's lives in a way that other cinematic staples , such as murder and mayhem , are not .
17 Any change in public deposits must be matched by an equal and opposite change in bankers ' deposits , from which still further consequences may follow .
18 Their wave-cast harvests included kegs of brandy , cases of gin crates of oriental crockery , baskets of fresh fruit and large quantities of ships ' fittings .
19 There also needs to be much clearer reference to the limitations in the audit process and , in particular , in relation to collusive or immaterial fraud and sudden changes in companies ' financial positions , as these are also fundamental to the expectations gap .
20 Spring Books , with 650 pages of titles due for publication to August 1993 — the most comprehensive and informative guide to publishers ' plans — coming on 12th February .
21 Here near to Foxton are examples of all sorts of things that excite the blood of the canal enthusiast : a delightful cut through the centre of the village taking the boatman to the once prosperous wharves and building yards of Market Harborough ; a wonderful hand-operated swingbridge allowing the more adventurous visitors to negotiate Swingbridge Lane on their own ; visible and tangible memories of boatmen 's inns .
22 The support and guidance of ‘ real ’ employers on the boards of mini enterprise schemes can be helpful ; the advice of professionals about equipment purchase , attendance-pattern of trainees , syllabus choice or , even , staff recruitment can all be derived from an active and effective pattern of Governors ' Advisory Committees ; industrial or commercial figures on governing bodies can give a helpful perspective ; one-off lectures or presentations on an aspect of the business world can enhance a course — but all these examples depend for their success on agreed objectives .
23 This theme is echoed by the discrepancy in results between experimental and observational studies of children 's knowledge of causal connectives .
24 An extremely ‘ permissive ’ parent , on the other hand , attempts to behave in a non-punitive , accepting and affirmative manner towards children 's impulses , desires and actions ; always to consult with them about policy decisions and give explanations for family rules ; to make few demands for household responsibility and orderly behaviour ; to present himself/herself to them as someone to call upon for help and company as they wish , rather than as an active ‘ disciplinary agent ’ responsible for shaping or altering behaviour .
25 The whole concept of quotas should be abandoned because of the economic damage that they cause by preventing the proper and flexible use of farmers ' resources and assets and by preventing technological innovation .
26 Some male anti-suffragists used a more hostile and demeaning picture of women 's place reminiscent of Spencerian Darwinism to justify their arguments .
27 Why make the wet and stormy trek to Otters ' Bay ?
28 Similarly , a good deal of attention has been directed to the important and topical issues of workers ' participation in enterprise decision-making , along with ‘ international ’ studies concerned with the operation and labour relations implications of multinational corporations .
29 It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families .
30 INTEREST in portable computers of all kinds has been stimulated by the Gulf War , when everything from tanks and armoured vehicles to airmen 's flying helmets were fitted with a range of increasingly smaller and more rugged technology .
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