Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is a perceptible change in judges ' attitudes to judicial review . |
| 2 | These visions would appear , unsummoned , while she sipped cups of strong tea in clients ' bedsitters … |
| 3 | Anne Higonnet 's essay on 19th century women 's ‘ Secluded Vision ’ , by contrast with these analyses of women 's professional practice , explores images of feminine experience in women 's albums and ‘ amateur ’ paintings . |
| 4 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 5 | Most schools accepted a need to enhance basic provision of fiction and general reference material and in at least one school the development of a sound base in children 's fiction was a priority . |
| 6 | Young people in care in North Wales are being deterred from making complaints about abuse because of an alleged lack of progress in investigating allegations of widespread physical and sexual abuse in children 's homes in the 1970s and 1980s , it has been claimed . |
| 7 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 8 | It also highlights significant regional variations , possibly reflecting a marked difference in schools ' approach to discipline . |
| 9 | Economic recovery , coupled with the current low-inflation environment in borrowers ' financial positions . |
| 10 | The development of verb-phrase anaphora in children 's language |
| 11 | In fact no one argues that the marked increase in provision to service this model ( Department of Education and Science 1978b Ling and Davies 1984 ) has led to a marked improvement in pupils ' behaviour . |
| 12 | Few men go to birth control clinics , although the Brook Advisory Clinics have reported a slight increase , and contraception is certainly not a salient feature in men 's magazines , where sex never seems to bring such consequences as birth and fatherhood . |
| 13 | Thus , for Dr Young , the fatal , the mortal , the life-deciding interest in women 's bodies . |
| 14 | A third possibility that should not be overlooked is that the stereotype is just a stereotype and has no real correlate in women 's behaviour . |
| 15 | Luce opened her eyes to find that a burly stranger in workmen 's overalls was at the wheel , and she was lying cradled against Michele 's chest , her head on his shoulder . |
| 16 | This relegation - for as such it was undoubtedly construed — to the domestic realm , whilst on the one hand promoting a higher status than before for women in terms of motherhood ( a status generated for society 's structural purposes and needs ) , also resulted in an overall decrease in women 's status generally , for , to use the well known Levi-Straussian model , the domestic unit — i.e. the ‘ biological ’ family concerned with reproducing and socializing new members of society — was seen as separate from the public entity — i.e. the superimposed network of alliances and relationships which comprised society proper , as it were . |
| 17 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 18 | The regular CBI surveys and the regular Department of Employment labour force survey show that over the 1980s — this is the answer to the hon. Member for Newport , East ( Mr. Hughes ) — there has been a consistent increase in employers ' commitment to training , even in this current recession . |
| 19 | I would contend that the scapegoating of the education system , in general , and of certain local authorities , in particular , has acted as a diversionary tactic for the inadequacies of central government responses to the funding of the state education system , their failure to stem the spiralling decline in teachers ' morale and the pitiful attempt to provide real job opportunities for school leavers . |
| 20 | We feel there is a very important place for sexually explicit material in women 's lives . |
| 21 | ‘ Beyond the Family Album ’ , which Jo showed at the Hayward alongside the elegant landscapes of Thomas Cooper and the ironic social documentary of Martin Parr , was a turning point in women 's photography and everyone took notice . |
| 22 | Any change in public deposits must be matched by an equal and opposite change in bankers ' deposits , from which still further consequences may follow . |
| 23 | The industry is expected to excuse itself by highlighting the last-minute change in voters ' allegiances , reflected in the last polls . |
| 24 | Beyond these specific studies there is little support for the view that the domestic theme in women 's general situation has been substantially muted over recent decades . |
| 25 | We show that the variety of the types together with the noise prevents a large jump in agents ' strategies from complete ignorance to complete knowledge . |
| 26 | What of the specifically feminist folklinguistic belief in women 's cooperative speech ? |
| 27 | Hoghughi said the traditional psychotherapeutic approach in children 's homes had proved ‘ positively damaging ’ for disordered young people , who needed clear authority . |
| 28 | She believes that the sudden growth in women 's writing and the interest in issues relating to women was largely owing to the rise of the companionate marriage . |
| 29 | One GRIST coordinator , whilst pointing to the need to develop a more sophisticated understanding in teachers ' responses to their INSET needs , exemplified the difficulties of arts education by quoting a survey carried out by one LEA into teachers ' views of their own INSET needs . |
| 30 | Roy sketches an idyllic portrait of the fabled singer 's musical powers and triumphal return to his native land in movements l-3 ( [ Air ] -Récitatif-Ariette ) , all of which is in E minor . |