Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the union was already dealing with 500 cases of possible redundancy among its members . |
2 | YESTERDAY 'S endorsement of grant-maintained schools by Peter Smith , the General Secretary of the Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , marked a significant change in his union 's attitude towards the Government 's education reforms . |
3 | Some , like the Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , of which only a single item of evidence remains , appears to have had friendly relations with the National Sailors and Firemen . |
4 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
5 | Rabkrin ( the Central Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ) calculated that at the start of 1923 from 20 to 26 per cent of all village Soviet business lay in this sphere , whereas cultural and commune activities took up only 5 to 10 per cent of their time . |
6 | Whereas the men 's and women 's toilets in large American stations usually led off the separate men 's and women 's waiting-rooms , no such delicacy prevailed for the Blacks . |
7 | When we held activities at the school , the girls would always opt for the domestic tasks ' and it was difficult to persuade them to take on some other responsibility . |
8 | The brief history of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association in the following chapter suggests that this is , however , an incomplete conceptualisation . |
9 | The following chapter on the role of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association ( NVALA ) in the 1960s , and the following case studies , will consider evidence which casts doubt on this order of priority . |
10 | The following chapter looks at the debates over permissiveness in more detail , by examining the preoccupations of the moral entrepreneurs of the period , and in particular , Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association . |
11 | Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association |
12 | The chapter takes as its focus the work of Mary Whitehouse and the organisation with which she is most closely associated , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association ( NVALA ) . |
13 | THE NATIONAL VIEWERS ' AND LISTENERS ' ASSOCIATION |
14 | By November 1965 , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was being launched in London to the full glare of press publicity by James Dance , MP for Bromsgrove , by then another leading figure in the campaign . |
15 | The National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association is by no means the only ‘ moral entrepreneurial ’ group of this sort , although it is one of the most long-standing , and it has , through Mary Whitehouse , generally achieved a higher profile than many of the others . |
16 | Mary Whitehouse , founder of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , admitted to being ‘ 81.5 ’ . |
17 | The two were speaking as Mrs Mary Whitehouse , president of the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association , called for a clamp-down on screen violence . |
18 | The Southampton branch refused to send delegates to the Annual General Meeting at which its complaints were to be discussed and addressed a letter to the meeting in which the branch committee advised Southampton members to secede from the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union in order to establish a local and independent society . |
19 | On 28 September 1911 Hermann Jochade , secretary of the International Transport Workers ' Federation in a letter to its secretary Arthur Cannon expressed his surprise at the branch 's actions , and noted " I have myself investigated the workings of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , as I have done with other unions connected with the International Transport Workers ' Federation in Great Britain , and have pleasure in stating and testifying that the Seamen 's Union is one of the best organised and conducted of all unions I have made enquiries into . |
20 | Buxton was not a man to be deterred by the shipowners ' protestations that the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not only unrepresentative of seamen but would fail " to command support in the event of a decision of a conciliation board which did not secure the immediate approval of the persons affected " . |
21 | Within a week of the outbreak of war the co-operation of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was sought over the manning of merchant vessels requisitioned or chartered by the Admiralty and an agreement arrived at jointly with the Board of Trade . |
22 | The union supported the idea of a national wage for seafarers , determined by and supervised by a National or London Joint Committee of the parties concerned and corresponding Local Joint Committees but proposed that labour should be supplied by the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union . |
23 | The PPC won eight seats and 7.7 per cent of the vote ; the Independent Moralising Front ( FIM ) won seven seats and 6.2 per cent ; Renovation , led by Rafael Rey Rey , a member of the previous congress , won six seats and 5.5 per cent ; the Democratic Left Movement ( MDI ) won five seats and 4.8 per cent ; Democratic Co-ordination , led by José Barba Caballero , an APRA member of the previous congress , won four seats and 4.1 per cent ; and Solidarity and Democracy , the Popular Agricultural Front , the National Workers ' and Peasants ' Front ( Frenatraca ) and the Popular Agricultural Front each won two seats . |
24 | How Newco is to be funded , and the instititional investors ' and banks ' requirements in connection with the funding , must be addressed early in the buy-out process . |
25 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |
26 | It was formed in 1913 out of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants , together with the General Railway Workers ' Union and the United Pointsmen 's and Signalmen 's Society ( Bagwell 1963 ) . |
27 | Anne Gibson and Jim Mailer , who won the respective women 's and men 's national titles earlier this month , spearhead Scotland 's challenge at the All England , and they will be backed up by Gillian Martin , Kevin Scott , Bruce Flockhart , and Gordon and Jillian Haldane . |
28 | Many Harvard dealers have failed the registered Representatives ' and Traders ' exam . |
29 | After being virtually the first dealer at his firm to pass the Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination , he was applauded by his colleagues only to be shunted off the sales desk into the back office . |
30 | Top dealers with plummy accents who had passed the registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination were primed to speak with the inspectors . |