Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also approved the Democracy and the Individual review , proposing : To replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber ; Devolved assemblies for Scotland , Wales , and the regions of England ; Unification of Ireland only by consent of the majority in the North ; A Freedom of Information Act ; A Ministry for Women ; A Department of Legal Administration to run the courts ; Extend legal aid ; A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives ; A Children 's Commissioner to act as an ombudsman on childrens ' rights ; Firm opposition to reform of the voting system for the House of Commons . |
| 2 | She 's a lawyer , an advocate of childrens ' rights , a former member of several corporate and public interest boards . |
| 3 | This is bound to have an effect on publishers ' conceptions of the market . |
| 4 | Under U.S. GAAP accounting for goodwill as an offset against shareholders ' equity is not permitted ; rather goodwill must be amortized over the period of its expected useful life , subject to a maximum write-off period of 40 years , through the income statement . |
| 5 | Librarians see advantages in tel ms of increased use of resources , increased interest and involvement of pupils and teachers in the library , a chance to identify accurately information needs and an enhancement of pupils ' abilities to locate and use pertinent information sources . |
| 6 | When the interview is simulated in the classroom using pre-prepared videos , cassette recordings or role playing , an exchange of trainees ' reactions , fears and responses to the situation presented can improve an adviser 's ability to cope with real interviewing . |
| 7 | Jane Lucas explains how you can gain an insight into horses ' feelings by the physical signs they give out . |
| 8 | Being an enabler of pupils ' learning is an unselfish task and " imaginative " teachers do not necessarily excel in qualities of humility and standing back and giving space to others . |
| 9 | An alliance of manufacturers ' representatives , the BFICC , according to Pugh , aims to formulate UK market requirements for submission to national and international standards meetings and generally to monitor the UK facsimile market and provide industry liaison with the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications . |
| 11 | The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so . |
| 12 | The introduction of National Curriculum History will have an impact on teachers ' methodologies and on classroom management techniques . |
| 13 | For free copies of Travellers ' Diarrhoea and Avoiding Viral Hepatitis , send an sae to Travellers ' Advice , BDF , 3 , St Andrews Place , London . |
| 14 | An avenue of fortune-tellers ' trailers led into the funfair , displaying yellow or red cards in their windows . |
| 15 | There was also palpable relief from the auditing section of the accountancy profession because the report had not favoured an extension of auditors ' liabilities , or recommended a ban on their providing their audit clients with other services . |
| 16 | He begins an affair with Scots ' nurse Sandra Nicholl . |
| 17 | It is assumed that the purposeful provision of facilities , or the success of intervention strategies to encourage fuller use of available resources , depends critically upon an account of adolescents ' reasoning about leisure . |
| 18 | The balance sheet should show the total amount of shareholders ' funds and an analysis of shareholders ' funds between the amount attributable to equity interests and the amount attributable to non-equity interests . |
| 19 | an analysis of Teachers ' reports on their use of IT in the classroom |
| 20 | No-one appeared to carry out an analysis of pupils ' needs . |
| 21 | He will probably announce the scrapping of residential segregation , and an end to blacks ' exclusion from most South African land . |
| 22 | To be effective , political advertising needs to be undertaken well in advance of elections , to fix an image in voters ' minds ahead of the campaign itself . |
| 23 | One head of English in a comprehensive school described the compilation of an anthology of students ' writing which had included writing in languages other than English . |
| 24 | However , one of the chief difficulties in creating an improvement of schools ' practice at grassroots level is that schools , when faced with the challenge presented by self-examination and with a relatively limited knowledge of available strategies and resources , tend to use the process to reinforce existing ( perhaps inadequate ) practices rather than to seek new , more fruitful relationships between curriculum areas or to develop more appropriate teaching methods . |
| 25 | In the USA at least , there needs to be an improvement in scientists ' understandings of how to influence the allocation of funding for remedial measures or for further research ( see Kitsos and Ashe 1989 ) . |
| 26 | The devolution of detailed financial control from local authorities to head teachers and governing bodies means that schools will in future have to manage their own budgets which include an amount for teachers ' salaries . |
| 27 | He announced an increase in Members ' salaries from £400 to £600 . |
| 28 | Pension funds face shortfall An increase in employers ' contributions can not be discounted , says DEBBIE HARRISON |
| 29 | It follows that , other things being equal , the average price level will rise if there is an increase in average wage earnings , an increase in the average cost of imported material inputs , an increase in firms ' profit margins or a decrease in the average productivity of labour . |
| 30 | In practice it is difficult to predict the precise amount by which money supply will expand if there is an increase in banks ' liquidity . |