Example sentences of "to a [noun] of [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like these writers , Assiter makes a consideration of pornography central to a consideration of women 's social situation . |
| 2 | They had a band and a guard of honour outside the station , their backs to a row of railwaymen 's cottages . |
| 3 | A small number of schools mentioned that as part of their monitoring procedures , pupils were asked to evaluate social education programmes and one secondary school referred to a survey of pupils ' attitudes to health education . |
| 4 | We then made brief visits in turn to some greenhouses , to a school where we witnessed an English lesson , to a clinic where we saw barefoot doctors and Chinese herbal medicines , to an agricultural machinery factory , and finally to a couple of peasants ' homes . |
| 5 | Many were homeless or orphaned , held in gaol owing to a lack of children 's homes ; others , it was even alleged , were deliberately arrested on flimsy pretexts to be exploited as unpaid servants or sweepers when the gaol population rose . |
| 6 | Statistical modelling of spells in a geriatric ward : Development of models to describe the length of stay of patients in geriatric wards and flows of patients between wards and in and out of hospital ; Applications of these models to a database of patients ' histories in geriatric care . |
| 7 | Building society offices will often provide a great deal of window space to a display of children 's work as part of their community service . |
| 8 | This project involves the development of a collaboration begun in 1981 between British and French teams with the aim of extending the theory of social representations ( Moscovici , 1981 ) to an interpretation of children 's socio-moral concepts and beliefs . |