Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a subject that historians and sociologists , stressing the activities of men 's lives , have been inclined to overlook . |
| 2 | " Consideration should be given to the possible institution of a mechanism for the defence of citizens ' rights as regards Community matters ( " ombudsman " — a Danish proposal ) … " |
| 3 | The outcome of this project will be a computer simulation routine usable on standard microcomputers designed to assess the response of consumers ' expenditure and VAT revenue to changes in VAT rates . |
| 4 | Wales notes that great care is needed in making claims about the universality of the forms of children 's pictorial representation . |
| 5 | All chairmen were social class I , the majority of employers ' representatives were social class II and over 80 per cent of employees ' representatives fell within social classes II and III ( Bell et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | The majority of women 's organisations , even those representing employed women , have never ( until very recently ) made family allowances one of their major preoccupations , although equal pay has ( and still is ) an issue of vital concern . |
| 7 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 8 | Others emphasize capitalism 's success in raising the majority of workers ' living standards , as the most famous early Marxist revisionist , Eduard Bernstein ( 1961 ) , contended . |
| 9 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 10 | Between 1908 and 1948 several groups negotiated the needs of older people , among them the National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) , the National Spinsters ' Pensions Association ( which played an important role in the reduction of women 's pension age from 65 to 60 ) , the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations ( NFOAPA ) , and the National Old People 's Welfare Committee , established by voluntary groups during the Second World War . |
| 11 | After all , is n't that a rejection of the complexity of women 's oppression ? |
| 12 | Fourthly , the growing awareness of the complexity of children 's problems , coupled with an ecological perspective that views them as part of an extended family and local community with its own history and culture , mean that no single person or agency will be able to provide all the necessary services . |
| 13 | Differences in provision between one authority and the next can be wide ( eg on capitation allowances , the funding of teachers ' centres , off-site visits by school groups ) . |
| 14 | Multinational publishers also made a considerable contribution and investment to the process of subject curriculum development , in co-operation with institutes and centres , through the funding of writers ' workshops in Science , Mathematics and later , Social Studies and in the production , on numerous occasions , of trial editions , particularly of language courses . |
| 15 | It will encompass issues of the force men use against women , gender relations in the formal political arena , and the variety of women 's resistance to their subordination . |
| 16 | Personalised design for parts of the core training programme overcomes the two problems of differing regional resources and the variety of entrants ' experiences . |
| 17 | The direction of subjects ' lateral eye movements has been correlated with EEG alpha activity , consistent left movers showing a relatively greater degree of alpha activity ( Bakan and Svorad , 1969 ) . |
| 18 | For example , voluntary organizations played , and will continue to play , a central role in the provision of children 's services ; they were also influential in shaping new child care legislation ( for example : The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Children Act , 1908 ; Association of British Adoption Agencies and the 1975 Children Act ) . |
| 19 | Heads and governors were not required to manage these two main influences although headteachers themselves were often directly involved in the committees and working parties which steered the programmes of teachers ' centres . |
| 20 | The women claim that the existence of commoners ' rights invalidates the defence bylaws under which thousands have been fined or imprisoned for trespassing inside the base . |
| 21 | Moreover , the stereotype of women 's behaviour stresses the differences between ‘ all women ’ and ‘ all men ’ at the expense of exploring differences among women , or even the possibility that factors other than gender itself may be important in explaining supposed differences . |
| 22 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |
| 23 | Nowhere else , however , are the meanings of residents ' assessments explained . |
| 24 | Mary Daly 's indictment of male power and brutality similarly allows little space for a consideration of the patterns of women 's lives , or the strengths and capacities that these might have enabled them to develop . |
| 25 | The criminal activity of these older users was in the main restricted to offences relating to the possession and supply of the drugs themselves and the burglary of chemists ' premises to obtain drugs . |
| 26 | The swell of responses seemed alone to fill the crisp air , even the rasp of soldiers ' boots on the paving-stones went unheard . |
| 27 | Inefficient and ineffective note-making methods often lie at the heart of students ' inability to realise their potential . |
| 28 | Sanjukta Gupta Gombrich shows how at the heart of women 's place within Hinduism , lies a basic paradox . |
| 29 | The pathology of women 's bodies is a source of great mystery and unease to Vic . |
| 30 | War is pre-eminently an outrage on motherhood and all that motherhood means ; the destruction of life and the breaking-up of homes is the undoing of women 's work as life-givers and home-makers . |