Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fragmentation and lack of unity within the women 's movement in this country and elsewhere , resulting in a severe lack of power , organisation and strategy in the face of a very powerful oppression . |
| 2 | No sense of urgency or enthusiasm here , just as there had been no promise of support in the seamen 's ballot of the previous June . |
| 3 | As a consequence , the level of reliability of the directors ' statement and the degree of assurance from the auditors is high . |
| 4 | Leonard 's switch represents the second change of heart by the Lions ' management in the last week . |
| 5 | In the event that a company should fail , in spite of this scrutiny , policy-holders have some degree of protection under the Policy-holders ' Protection Act 1975 . |
| 6 | If I am correct — and the statement is also seen in some measure as a form of protection of the parents ' and child 's rights in this matter — it is surely anomalous that this statement appears largely to have become a passport to special schooling . |
| 7 | Nothing was achieved and several men had to be left ashore as they were unable to swim to the boats , whose RNVR crews would not beach for fear of damage to the crafts ' hulls . |
| 8 | The picture so far presented , of feminism being restrained by this form of response to the women 's movement , is not completely accurate , however . |
| 9 | However , the mayoral offer of money for the dolphins ' release was not forthcoming , and much of the goodwill between fishermen , villagers and conservationists evaporated . |
| 10 | There was no chance , Everett told them , of raising that sort of money with the Founders ' powers . |
| 11 | Miller 's involvement seemed to mark a change of gear in the police 's approach to the case . |
| 12 | " The following morning the Deputation again visited the School previous to the Scholars being dismissed for the Midsummer Holidays , and having inspected the Book of Entry of the Scholars ' Admissions & c we found that the whole number of 150 had been received into the School — that on the day of examination 141 were present and the remaining 9 absent from suspension or illness and one by death . " |
| 13 | Geary explains the return to tactical violence in the 1 980s partly in terms of the police 's tougher and more sophisticated approach to public disorder induced by the inner-city disturbances of 1981 , though he attributes much of the unusually high level of violence in the miners ' strike to certain exceptional characteristics of the dispute : |
| 14 | Furthermore , since the board is dominated by the most senior representatives of management ( this term will be used , except where the context requires otherwise , to refer to the executive directors and senior managers ) it can hardly be regarded as a body providing independent supervision of management on the shareholders ' behalf . |
| 15 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 16 | I can well understand the plaintiffs ' sense of indignation at the defendants ' breaches of the injunction , and the court will have to consider very carefully all aspects of those breaches when the inevitable contempt proceedings are heard . |
| 17 | Women 's bodies have been a focus of attention through the women 's movement at the different points in its history . |
| 18 | And , as with all myths , there 's a kernel of truth in the skinheads ' perception of themselves as outcasts . |
| 19 | But any suggestion of confidence in the players ' ability to perform on the field must be tempered by worries over their ability to handle life off it . |
| 20 | The request for reconsideration must be filed within two days of receiving the certificate of refusal from the magistrates ' court and copy documents must be served on the parties within this time limit . |
| 21 | There has been a lot of banter in the Supporters ' Club lately about the prospect of a supermarket on ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 22 | Perhaps the jumble of wood , cloth , metal and coal were even items of importance for the ghost-bottlers ' art . |
| 23 | The plaintiff must then put in the notes of evidence from the magistrates ' court ( or the Crown Court ) with a r21 notice and apply for directions under r28 in order to force the defendant to call all the witnesses from the magistrates ' court to give evidence in the civil trial . |
| 24 | To play music in this way is considered both a privilege and an obligation , an expression of pride in the ancestors ' memory and their own heritage . |
| 25 | Others dived and scurried for any food they found — sometimes a speck of meat from the eagles ' own food , or perhaps the crumbs from some piece of bread that the visitors to the Zoo wrongly threw in . |
| 26 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 27 | I had to write a letter of apology to the Children 's Department about the incident , which had n't done our already bad standing with them any good at all . ’ |
| 28 | His Origin of Forms and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy ( 1666 ) is a masterpiece of criticism of the Aristotelians ' substantial forms , a detailed classic exposition of the corpuscular theory he wishes to put in their place , and , finally , a compendium of experiments and results , all explained and analysed in corpuscularian terms . |
| 29 | When you say crafts more easily accessible , I think a lot of people regard craft as a sort of extension to the Women 's Institute . |
| 30 | This is usually enshrined in the Articles by attaching the right of appointment to the investors ' equity shares . |