Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] association " in BNC.
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1 | He deserted the safe cloisters of that college in order to teach for the Workers ' Educational Association : he had been leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council since 1934 . |
2 | When in 1913 Alison Neilans of the Ladies ' National Association announced that ‘ we and our former antagonists can work cordially together ’ , Wilson explained that the olive branch was a result of the change of heart among medics and their new expansive definition of health . |
3 | One of Minton 's lithographs , Jamaica , was printed under the auspices of the Artists ' International Association and sold at four guineas , with discount for schools and institutions . |
4 | This is the main modus operandi of the teachers ' professional associations ( unions ) : to work to decrease demands by fending them off , whilst campaigning for more ( external ) resources . |
5 | That it is in the interest of the Workers ' Educational Association that the organisation of its activities and its expansion , and the direction of its policy , should continue in the hands of its members ; that the work of the professional officers in the field should be supplementary to that of the Branch and Federation members and not a substitute for it , and that all constitutional impediments to the holding of any Branch or Federation office by voluntary members of the WEA should be removed . |
6 | F. W. Moorman , Professor of English Language at Leeds and an active supporter of the Workers ' Educational Association , told the annual conference in 1914 that the main purpose of the teaching of English literature was not to impart knowledge , or to " equip students for the conquest of the world " ; indeed , the object was not to " teach " at all but to " delight " and , " for some , to sweeten leisure " . |
7 | By February 1890 , this temporary arrangement had extended its coverage and become permanent with the establishment of an Employers ' Labour Association representing thirty of the principal steamship owners and twenty master stevedores and porters who together employed some three-fifths of the seamen and dockers in the port . |
8 | The university works in partnership with bodies including the Workers ' Educational Association , councils and independent adult education centres . |
9 | Similarly , he used his connections with the promotion of adult education in the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ) and the Extra-Mural Department of London University to establish a joint and full-time crash course for a Diploma in International Affairs in the London Institution of World Affairs , of which he was the president until his death . |
10 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
11 | The Eden was contaminated with ammonia in 1987 by Express Dairies who were recently forced to pay £113,000 in compensation following action by the Anglers ' Cooperative Association . |
12 | At the Home Farm Trust , run by the Workers ' Educational Association , Medau classes for residents now go into their tenth year . |
13 | At a time when FISA , the sport 's organizing body , helped by the drivers ' own association , had belatedly begun to pay some attention to safety in a notably risky sport , Chapman 's remarks showed a callousness towards his drivers — and by implication , towards other human beings — that I found it hard to admire . |