Example sentences of "[det] as [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 In his heart , he still regarded this as women 's work , and felt humiliated that it was now Joshua who acted as Marcus Judge 's chief assistant at the dockyard .
2 Bodies such as farmers ' , young farmers ' and women 's organisations are playing an important and innovatory role .
3 Darwinistic Victorian science derived psychological and cultural difference between men and women — such as women 's stereotypically greater tenderness , generosity and intuition — from male and female biology .
4 The differences between men and women seem to arise from factors such as women 's hesitancy , women 's role as cajoler and mediator for men , and men 's social dominance and sense of themselves as more authoritative .
5 We have become aware of other contending histories previously rendered largely invisible , such as women 's history and the ‘ history from below ’ of groups socially disenfranchised by reason of class , colour , religion .
6 Non-wage costs such as firms ' social-security payments add 20–45% , far more than in America and Japan .
7 Furthermore , attacks such as Crews 's are , as he acknowledges , not taken seriously and replied to in their own terms , but treated as symptoms of repressed disturbance .
8 If such changes are introduced , in-house benefits such as directors ' dining rooms , sports facilities and so on will be a significantly less attractive means of providing benefits to employees .
9 The workshop produces a wide range of one-off furniture and interiors ranging from specialised pieces such as collectors ' cabinets or jewellery boxes through to complete ranges of furniture for dining rooms and studies .
10 But it was obviously impossible to deal with a nation-wide emergency such as lorry-drivers ' strikes , and equally impossible to respond properly to a rash of major disputes all at the same time .
11 Many litigation firms also suffer from the transactional " nature of their practice and find it difficult to build institutional , long-term relationships with clients even where this is possible , particularly where the practice is dependent on referrals from agencies such as Citizens ' Advice Bureaux and law centres where staff changes make relationships difficult to build and maintain .
12 What distinguishes the Gilbert Collection is the wide spectrum not only of techniques and materials , such as goldsmiths ' work , enamel , porcelain and especially hardstone , but also the countries of origin .
13 In terms of norms associated with dress , awards are made by official bodies such as tailors ' organizations to the best-dressed men in Britain .
14 Each need identified has its own place in the vicious circle : a reluctance on the part of schools to deploy community language teachers as part of their staffing establishment , and to offer adequate capitation for teachers deployed from units outside of the school ; a shortage of Section 11 staff to meet the demand from schools for community language provision ; a lack of back-up facilities in local institutions such as teachers ' centres , curriculum development units and local universities and polytechnics .
15 Supplier groups that is to say the welfare professional organisations such as teachers ' groups and social workers ' groups , also have an interest in the expansion of government expenditure .
16 When you buy your wedding ring you will received a 10 per cent discount on your next purchase , such as bridesmaids ' and best man presents .
17 The term is also used for one who manages the causes of others in courts of civil or canon law such as Doctors ' Commons was : described by Steerforth as ‘ a sort of monkish attorney ’ , DC 23 .
18 The line-printer , dot-matrix printer and inkjet printer each has its own advantages and disadvantages , but all can be used to generate maps ranging from draft-quality maps such as Figures 4.3(a) and ( b ) to finished choropleth maps ( Figure 4.9 ) .
19 You could also look to outside advisory agencies for assistance , such as employers ' associations , training organizations , and specialized bodies for articles and literature such as the British Institute of Management , or the Institute of Personnel Management .
20 Thus the criminal law defines only some types of avoidable killing as murder : it excludes , for example , deaths resulting from acts of negligence , such as employers ' failure to maintain safe working conditions in factories and mines ( Swartz 1975 ) ; or deaths resulting from an organization 's reluctance to maintain appropriate safety standards ( Erickson 1976 ) ; or deaths which result from governmental agencies ' giving environmental health risks a low priority ( Liazos 1972 ) ; or deaths resulting from drug manufacturers ' failure to conduct adequate research on new chemical compounds before embarking on aggressive marketing campaigns ( Silverman and Lee 1974 ) ; or deaths from a dangerous drug that was approved by health authorities on the strength of a bribe from a pharmaceutical company ( Braithwaite and Geis 1981 ) ; or deaths resulting from car manufacturers refusing to recall and repair thousands of known defective vehicles because they calculate that the costs of meeting civil damages will be less ( Swigert and Farrell 1981 ) ; and in most jurisdictions deaths resulting from drunken or reckless people driving cars with total indifference to the potential cost in terms of human lives are also excluded .
21 The on-costs on labour such as employers ' national insurance contributions , CITB levy , holidays with pay scheme and other more indirect on-costs such as allowances for severance pay and legislation affecting employment , sick pay , allowance for employer 's liability and third party insurance , will be processed through both the cost and financial accounts .
22 John Gillis has shown from a study of the London Foundling Hospital that higher servants , such as ladies ' maids , seem to have been particularly vulnerable which may be explained by the contradictions they experienced in attempting to combine customs of courtship and marriage appropriate to women of their class backgrounds with the standards of conduct expected by their employers .
23 Although infant care practices , such as infants ' sleeping position , vary between countries , comparisons are difficult as socioeconomic , cultural , and environmental factors and temperature also vary greatly .
24 Abuse of Market Power — Consultative Document on Possible Legislative Options , considers practices such as companies ' refusal to supply or the driving out of competitors through loss-making pricing , to be anti-competitive .
25 Group I introns reside in a large number of genomes from various sources such as phages T4 and SPO1 ( 47 , 48 , 49 ) , cyanobacteria ( 50 , 51 ) , plastids ( 52 , 53 ) , mitochondria and nuclei ( Tetrahymena ( 54 ) ; Physarum ( 55 ) ) .
26 The employer 's business was supplying fresh chickens and it was alleged that the employee had made wrongful use of sales information such as customers ' names and addresses .
27 In a number of industries each firm 's product has some point of difference that differentiates it in some way from the products manufactured by other firms ; differentiation may be in terms of quality , design or even an intangible difference such as customers ' perceived image of the product .
28 The opposition will want copy fee notes , certainly in respect of major disbursements such as experts ' fees and counsels ' fees .
29 Some , indeed , were criticised for aspects of their habitability , such as mothers ' inability to watch , from the kitchen , children at play on the open space located at the front of the houses .
30 Listening to parents in the playground and at more formal events such as parents ' evenings should alert staff to early stages of parental disquiet .
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