Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church 's 2,500 bishops and prelates , heads of men 's religious orders ( though not of women 's ! ) , and faculties of some thirty-seven Catholic universities were asked what they thought were the major problems facing the Church . |
| 2 | Holcomb , Kodras and Brunn ( 1990 ) selected 26 variables representing various aspects of women 's legal rights in 49 of the 50 States ( Kansas was excluded because of incomplete data : the source was Cherow-O'Leary , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
| 4 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 5 | To the extent that transformational rules have been challenged as accurate accounts of children 's emerging knowledge of the rules for organising language structures ( see Chapter 1 ) , the LAD is suspect . |
| 6 | Conceptions of pupils ' historical thinking and the training of history teachers |
| 7 | This programme of research has already brought to light unnoticed phenomena of children 's different abilities to communicate in the classroom . |
| 8 | Unlike recent ‘ innatist ’ views of children 's intellectual development , Campbell and Olson 's framework represents cognitive development as ‘ the accretion and expansion of representational powers ’ . |
| 9 | The appearance of new literary circles around Elizabeth Montagu and Hester Thrale Piozzi were further signs of women 's improved status in the literary world . |
| 10 | Within these billowing clouds strange and terrifying things are often seen ; whether these are the products of men 's ensorcelled imaginations or whether they actually exist is something not often discussed . |
| 11 | Over the back of the chair next to the table were two pairs of vergers ' white cotton gloves drying . |
| 12 | There is a curious paradox in these patterns of women 's paid employment . |
| 13 | Knowledge about cyclical patterns of women 's sexual feelings were in part dependent on further research in endocrinology , and it was not until 1928 that two scientists working separately , Ogino and Knaus , discovered the hormonal pattern for the menstrual cycle . |
| 14 | Wales notes that great care is needed in making claims about the universality of the forms of children 's pictorial representation . |
| 15 | These treatments may be useful on a more widespread basis , too ; the NIDR advocates that the chewing surfaces of children 's permanent teeth be treated with sealants as soon as they surface from the gum , as a precaution . |
| 16 | The financial hardship of most lone mothers ( see chapter 4 ) bears witness to the casualties of women 's weak position in the labour market . |
| 17 | Even Maccoby and Jacklin ( 1974 ) use the sex difference they are most sure of , women 's lower aggression , to give credence to other , less well-established hypotheses of women 's lesser competitiveness and their liking for large groups . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The foregoing analysis neglects the effects of firms ' other competitive variables such as product quality , product range and product differentiation . |
| 20 | It is by no means certain that a newly conceived " teachers ' contract " , will include such a notion We raise the question whether the long-term effects of teachers ' industrial action might render impracticable future projects in the ESSE/L Project mould . |
| 21 | The first three pieces are celebrations of women 's past achievements as inventors : in pre-agricultural societies , in ancient Alexandria and in American Shaker communities . |
| 22 | However , ‘ selective rationalization ’ was sufficiently widespread for Townsend and Peck ( 1985c ) and Watts and Stafford ( 1986 , 216 ) to draw up typologies of plants ' locational and other characteristics that might affect the probabilities of closure . |
| 23 | Both Josephine Butler , who was happily married and a strong feminist , and Florence Nightingale , who decided to reject middle class family life entirely and was scornful of feminism , were convinced of the possibilities of women 's spiritual leadership . |
| 24 | Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place … |
| 25 | Records of Achievement are essentially formative records providing summarizing statements of pupils ' personal qualities , including some element of the students own self-assessment . |
| 26 | The major projects under this heading are concerned with the nature and determinants of managements ' industrial relations policies in the hundred largest British private corporations ( Keith Sisson ) , management strategy and industrial relations in nationalised industries ( Anthony Ferner ) and the internal pay policies of large corporations ( William Brown and Paul Marginson ) . |
| 27 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , its ideas are echoed in many studies of women 's preferred conversational style . |
| 28 | These are examples of the way even studies of women 's domestic roles tacitly subscribe to the myth of feminine passivity . |
| 29 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 30 | On the other hand , studies of children 's spontaneous production have revealed that most of the causal sentences which children produce refer to intentions ( Hood , 1977 ; McCabe and Peterson , 1985 ) . |