Example sentences of "[art] [noun] in [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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31 His sometimes enigmatic expression and behaviour were likened to that of the sphinx in cartoonists ' caricatures .
32 Another headcrunching mixture of ‘ Jungle House ’ ( let's have another term , please : ai n't there enough jibes about black people being from the jungle in Nazis ' heads already ? ) from Rebel MC 's terrifyingly on-the-case label .
33 Bedmakers in Cambridge colleges were issued with stout gloves to protect their hands from the sharp sedge as they lit the fires in undergraduates ' rooms .
34 Editor , — John R Hampton may be right to lament the decline in doctors ' abilities to elicit and interpret physical signs , but I believe that he is wrong to conclude that training in the setting of general practice will sound the deathknell of these skills .
35 Another route to a part-time job might be by looking at the cards in newsagents ' windows , or asking as your local Job Centre or office of Professional and Executive Recruitment , addresses of which will be in your local Yellow Pages .
36 I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools .
37 The expectation is that by increasing patient participation in this way the project will achieve a reduction in patients ' forgetting and misunderstanding of instructions and advice , and a reduction in the number of questions which occur to patients after their consultation .
38 The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill .
39 Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools .
40 THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month .
41 The reason why a cut in members ' allowances was not in our budget is I think we did n't consider it and we did n't consider it because the figures involved are so small that it was n't a matter which was , as I say , worthy of financial comment , although I accept it has a political dimension .
42 If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation .
43 The government banks with the Bank of England , therefore the daily flows of funds between the private and public sectors are reflected in equal but opposite changes in two of the Bank 's liabilities , a flow towards the government , for example , causing a fall in bankers ' deposits and a matching rise in public deposits .
44 This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year .
45 This involves a difference in teachers ' perception of themselves and of other professionals .
46 This wastes space , but the user will not be able to avoid such a shortcoming in manufacturers ' software by any other technique .
47 He welcomed the fact that VAT had not been extended to food and that there would be no increase in employers ' National Insurance contributions .
48 Nonetheless , it would be misleading to ‘ read off ’ from the unemployment situation a decline in workers ' resolve to take independent action .
49 The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support .
50 The rise of mass education saw a decline in social mobility and merely an inflation in employers ' demands for qualifications .
51 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 .
52 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 ) .
53 He announced an increase in Members ' salaries from £400 to £600 .
54 Pension funds face shortfall An increase in employers ' contributions can not be discounted , says DEBBIE HARRISON
55 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 .
56 In practice it is difficult to predict the precise amount by which money supply will expand if there is an increase in banks ' liquidity .
57 It is usually the case that those things which best suit the Michels model are social movement organizations which have goals which can be ‘ compromised ’ because they are things — like an increase in workers ' standards of living or an improvement in working conditions — which are divisible .
58 The reforms entailed an increase in employees ' contributions from 3 to 11 per cent of gross wage ; the raising of the pensionable age from 63 to 65 for men and from 58 to 60 for women ; the abolition of special allowances for particular categories of employees ; and the merger of pension funds .
59 This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance .
60 However , the growth has not been matched by an increase in lessees ' sophistication .
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