Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were like that about women 's lib . |
| 2 | In his heart , he still regarded this as women 's work , and felt humiliated that it was now Joshua who acted as Marcus Judge 's chief assistant at the dockyard . |
| 3 | A theme raised in recent studies is that of women 's consciousness : in the classic form of class consciousness ( Hunt , 1980 ; Porter , 1978a , b ) and of gender consciousness within class , within work and trade unions ( Cunnison , 1983 ; Wajcman , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 5 | A central plank of the current attack upon education and the teaching profession ( and one which has grown since Callaghan 's Great Debate speech ) is that of employers ' dissatisfaction with educational standards and with the quality of young workers . |
| 6 | We have become aware of other contending histories previously rendered largely invisible , such as women 's history and the ‘ history from below ’ of groups socially disenfranchised by reason of class , colour , religion . |
| 7 | The differences between men and women seem to arise from factors such as women 's hesitancy , women 's role as cajoler and mediator for men , and men 's social dominance and sense of themselves as more authoritative . |
| 8 | If such changes are introduced , in-house benefits such as directors ' dining rooms , sports facilities and so on will be a significantly less attractive means of providing benefits to employees . |
| 9 | Many litigation firms also suffer from the transactional " nature of their practice and find it difficult to build institutional , long-term relationships with clients even where this is possible , particularly where the practice is dependent on referrals from agencies such as Citizens ' Advice Bureaux and law centres where staff changes make relationships difficult to build and maintain . |
| 10 | What distinguishes the Gilbert Collection is the wide spectrum not only of techniques and materials , such as goldsmiths ' work , enamel , porcelain and especially hardstone , but also the countries of origin . |
| 11 | Thus the criminal law defines only some types of avoidable killing as murder : it excludes , for example , deaths resulting from acts of negligence , such as employers ' failure to maintain safe working conditions in factories and mines ( Swartz 1975 ) ; or deaths resulting from an organization 's reluctance to maintain appropriate safety standards ( Erickson 1976 ) ; or deaths which result from governmental agencies ' giving environmental health risks a low priority ( Liazos 1972 ) ; or deaths resulting from drug manufacturers ' failure to conduct adequate research on new chemical compounds before embarking on aggressive marketing campaigns ( Silverman and Lee 1974 ) ; or deaths from a dangerous drug that was approved by health authorities on the strength of a bribe from a pharmaceutical company ( Braithwaite and Geis 1981 ) ; or deaths resulting from car manufacturers refusing to recall and repair thousands of known defective vehicles because they calculate that the costs of meeting civil damages will be less ( Swigert and Farrell 1981 ) ; and in most jurisdictions deaths resulting from drunken or reckless people driving cars with total indifference to the potential cost in terms of human lives are also excluded . |
| 12 | Abuse of Market Power — Consultative Document on Possible Legislative Options , considers practices such as companies ' refusal to supply or the driving out of competitors through loss-making pricing , to be anti-competitive . |
| 13 | Some , indeed , were criticised for aspects of their habitability , such as mothers ' inability to watch , from the kitchen , children at play on the open space located at the front of the houses . |
| 14 | This complex web includes : a ) local and regional offices of central government departments , such as the DSS and DOE ( see Young 1982 ) ; b ) non-departmental public bodies usually dealing with a single specialized function , such as health and water authorities ; c ) decentralized units of public corporations , such as electricity boards ; d ) innumerable autonomous and semi-autonomous official and quasi-official organizations , each with its part to play in the policy-making process , such as tenants ' liaison committees and youth service advisory councils ( see Cousins , 1982 , 1983 ) ; e ) elected local government ( see Figure 8.2 ) . |
| 15 | There was a massive expansion of public housing ( which was even called council housing ) ; responsibility for personal social services ( such as children 's welfare and provision for the old ) grew dramatically ; the growth of education budgets and responsibility for ( almost ) universal primary and secondary education gave local education authorities very high profiles in the lives of ordinary people ; and the introduction of a nationally organized town and country planning system suggested a major new influence over development . |
| 16 | Moreover , in contrast to much of Buxtehude , the spaces are occupied for most of the day so that space is not freed for other uses , such as children 's play or adults ' talk . |
| 17 | The Sainsbury 's Lifestyle range of textiles went from strength to strength as the new team of specialist buyers and technologists introduced more quality items such as children 's footwear and men 's knitwear . |
| 18 | The project has already shown the need for small-scale processing units for products such as goats ' cheese and vegetables . |
| 19 | Organizations such as Media Expenditure and Advertising Ltd. in the UK provide regular information on media expenditure for subscribers , and other sources provide information on other key facts such as competitors ' market share . |
| 20 | There are organisations for the United Kingdom , the Pensioners ' Convention and the Pensioners ' Liaison Forum , which bring together other national groups such as Pensioners ' Voice , the British Pensioner and Trades Union Association and other retired members groups . |
| 21 | At a later stage in the project , the investigators shall consider the impact of changes in financial assets on ‘ real ’ variables such as consumers ' expenditure . |
| 22 | Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community . |
| 23 | Chief officers also liaise with other administrative units operating in the locality ( such as the field offices of central government departments along with health and water authorities ) and there are also important linkages with other councils , members of the public , and local pressure groups ( such as ratepayers ' action groups , local trade union branches , tenants ' associations ) . |
| 24 | Of course , it is hard to know much of women 's thinking because they are so rarely represented in the source material ; for example , having no legal personality in common law , they were forced to remain silent in ‘ crim. con. ’ actions . |
| 25 | Subsection 2(f) specifically empowers regulations to be made which authorise the retention by firms " of so much of clients ' money as represents interest " . |
| 26 | Rangers ' Stuart McCall spent more time on the ball than all of Hibs ' midfield put together and never wasted a moment , either . |
| 27 | ‘ The deputy tries to prove to his manager that he is as good as the man he is replacing , ’ said Broos , doubtless applying that theory to all of Rangers ' outfield worries . |
| 28 | Another generation of artists has emerged ( many from Goldsmiths ' College in London ) , which has successfully developed the rival approach . |
| 29 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 30 | But the form of that narcissism tells us more about men 's love of men : it is masculinity in general that they love , and there is " a contradictory corollary in the iconography of miners — it both suggests and suppresses sexuality . |