Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] 's [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Women 's Sportsfighting Club ’ , explains Carri a 17 year old skin from Clapham , ‘ I do wrestling , judo , boxing and sportsfighting . |
| 2 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 3 | Hertha Ayrton was a strong supporter of the women 's movement , a representative of the Women 's International League , and an original member of the International Federation of University Women ( 1919 ) and of the National Union of Scientific Workers ( 1920 ) . |
| 4 | Throughout the 1920s and 1930s her moderate and conciliatory personality worked to mediate between the revolutionary and the gradualist wings of the Women 's International League ( founded under Jane Addams at The Hague in 1915 ) as she served on its international executive . |
| 5 | She was one of the founders of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For example , the experience of members of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , who in both their own estimation and that of observers were adjudged respectable married women , shows that family misfortune , particularly in the form of sickness and unemployment , could quickly plunge a family into poverty , whereupon the wife would probably resort to strategies similar to those of her poorer sister . |
| 8 | These findings are reminiscent of the self-reported morbid conditions of the Women 's Cooperative Guild members published in 1915 . |
| 9 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 10 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 11 | , George Robert ( 1847–1922 ) , writer , was born at 8 Newton Terrace , Kennington , London , 2 September 1847 , the eldest of the six children of George Sims , wine merchant , cabinet manufacturer , and plate-glass factor , and his wife Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson , who became president of the Women 's Provident League . |
| 12 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 13 | of a sort of they call one of the women 's essential oils er cos I suppose they think rose was a woman really do n't they . |
| 14 | Simultaneously , close links were formed with the Women 's Trade Union League to promote trade unionism , and launch inquiries under the auspices of the Women 's Industrial Council into conditions of female employment . |
| 15 | The failure of the WTUA in 1894 led to the formation of the Women 's Industrial Council . |
| 16 | Anna Martin preferred the approach of feminists such as Clementina Black , a former President of the Women 's Industrial Council and the head of its Investigation Committee , who argued that women should have a legal right to a certain portion of their husband 's wage . |
| 17 | As a member of the Board and Executive of the British Amateur Gymnastics Association which is responsible for shaping the sport in this country , chairman of the Women 's Technical Committee and the Commonweath Games Council for England gymnastics representative , Paul takes a high profile role . |
| 18 | Accordingly , " with the praiseworthy assistance of Miss Irwin , Secretary of the Women 's Federal Council " , and with financial help both from the ETS and the STA , a " Female Compositors Society " was set up as the STC reported in July and August 1898 . |
| 19 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |
| 20 | Characteristically she left it to enlist as a section officer in the photographic intelligence unit of the Women 's Auxiliary Air Force ( 1942–5 ) . |
| 21 | Elspeth Burnside looks at how the growth of the women 's professional circuit has revitalised the amateur game . |
| 22 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
| 23 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 24 | She was a founding member of the Women 's Liberal Federation in 1887 , editing their Women 's Gazette and Weekly News from 1889 to 1891 , and of the Women 's National Liberal Federation in 1892 , writing the life of the founder ( Lady Fry of Darlington , 1898 ) . |
| 25 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 26 | Seizinger , winner of the women 's downhill World Cup last season , finished 0.16sec ahead of Austria 's Sylvia Eder . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was this desire for privacy that made the demands by some middle class feminists and leaders of the Women 's Labour League for communal eating and washing facilities unpopular . |
| 29 | Consultant gynaecologist Mr Ray Garry accepted the cheque from Post Office worker Carol Evans on behalf of the Women 's Endoscopic Laser Foundation , of which he is director , at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 30 | Linda describes the details of their daily lives , the problems that arose in trying to set up a network of support that was sufficient , stable and yet not undermining of the women 's growing independence , and the different reactions of Elizabeth and Helen to their new life . |