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

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1 It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter .
2 Leapor focuses her description on the labourers ' experience of the environment :
3 Wilson had borne a personal grudge against ‘ politically motivated ’ militants ever since the seamen 's strike of 1966 had spoiled his incomes policy and the attempted revival of the balance of payments upon which he had staked so much of his credibility .
4 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 .
5 Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials .
6 If this trend is allowed to continue unchecked it may lead to more solicitors finding criminal defences unprofitable and yet another field of work will be lost to the solicitors ' branch of the profession generally .
7 They have little experience of the style of presentation in higher courts ‘ and it matters ’ and whilst a number of solicitors are extremely good others ‘ let themselves down in court ’ and in doing so let down the solicitors ' branch of the profession as a whole .
8 In marked distinction to the solicitors ' branch of the profession , the pupil barrister may not earn any money during the first six months of pupillage and there are only limited opportunities for earning in the second six months of pupillage .
9 I am determined to avoid such division in the solicitors ' branch of the profession .
10 They fought tooth and nail to protect the solicitors ' monopoly of conveyancing but eventually compromised by not objecting to licensed conveyancers .
11 There had , however , been ‘ extensive contact ’ with the Law Society , which had decided that the system did not contravene the solicitors ' code of practice .
12 Asked to explain the clubs ' change of heart , Parry said : ‘ Time is a great healer .
13 Berwicke like many leading women repealers , found the work disturbing and felt that what was needed was a revival of the repealers ' message of anti-statism and personal liberty .
14 Under the influence of excessive risk aversion managers are thus liable to cause the firm to grow to an inefficient size and to engage in other forms of behaviour which are sub-optimal from the shareholders ' point of view , such as making low dividend payouts and an inadequate use of the company 's borrowing capacity .
15 Finally , for three weekends beginning on 8 May , the artists ' quarter of Saint Gilles is hosting a third series of ‘ Parcours d'Artistes ’ an opportunity for experts and general public alike to visit artists ‘ at home ’ in their studios and view some of their works .
16 Current assets , such as debtors , stocks and cash , amount to £33,000 , which is fairly paltry in comparison with the creditors ' figure of £400,000 , three quarters of which is due within one year .
17 The case was pleaded and argued before the Sheriff , and on appeal , on the basis that in addition to establishing the defenders ' breach of contract as a material breach , the pursuers also required to show that they were entitled to rescind the contract , leaving the system in an incomplete state .
18 Otakar Motej , Chairman of the Supreme Court , who represented Havel during the Federal Assembly 's discussion of his proposals , expressed disappointment at the deputies ' lack of trust in the President .
19 In his ministerial programme submitted to parliament for the deputies ' vote of confidence on December 30 , Mr Badran said his government will study the legal and economic effects of martial law after taking steps to return suspended passports , restore the elected boards to the three Arabic dailies and abolish a previous martial law order to dissolve the Jordanian Writers Association .
20 In any event , even a successful challenge of the courts ' interpretation of the effects of Britain 's obligations under international law would be of somewhat limited value .
21 Depending upon the courts ' interpretation of the term ‘ good faith , ’ this amendment may include a larger number of protected holders than the Pomerene Act .
22 It also forms the key to the courts ' justification of managerial autonomy in the model which superseded the agency theory at the beginning of this century .
23 After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co .
24 As Lord Porter recognised , it is inevitable that the courts ' view of what is non-natural should change in response to changing social conditions and needs .
25 From 1980 to 1992 , the multilaterals ' share of African debt grew from 19% to 28% .
26 The recovery of a piece engraved with a horse 's head from the reindeer-hunters ' station of Meiendorf , north-east of Hamburg , shows indeed that this began during the final stage of the Ice Age .
27 Cresswell believed that the ‘ dole business ’ in the south was responsible ; Cooper claimed that on election day ‘ when children went to get free dinners they were told to tell their parents that if Cooper was returned no more free dinners would be given ’ ; Coath said that electors had been told that if they voted for him ‘ they would get no more doles ’ ; and Clare had been accused of voting against the guardians ' grant of coal to the unemployed ( SE 11 November 22 ) .
28 They responded with blankets , clothes and seeds which have made a considerable difference to the prisoners ' quality of life .
29 Along with the rest of Scotland 's front five — Kenny Milne , Paul Burnell , Andy Reed and Damian Cronin — Wright made sufficient impact to earn selection for the Lions ' tour of New Zealand .
30 The role of the zebra in the relationship seems too innocent and wronged to warrant the pejorative ‘ enemy ’ But individual zebras do everything in their power to resist being eaten by lions , and from the lions ' point of view this is making life harder for them .
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