Example sentences of "of [noun sg] in [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite some evidence of change in teachers ' attitudes and behaviour , they themselves were reluctant to admit that the project had influenced them . |
| 2 | One of the most critical problems for organizations in designing well and competitively is their response or lack of response to change and , more specifically , to rates of change in markets ' technical and economic conditions . |
| 3 | Indeed recent surveys by the National Foundation for Educational Research have revealed that there is often a great deal of confusion in pupils ' minds , particularly as so many educational programmes for history now employ dramatic reconstruction . |
| 4 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 5 | Our next move was to co-operate with anglers by meeting the National Federation of Anglers and taking a joint initiative to remove the use of lead in anglers ' tackle . |
| 6 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 7 | Such a code would be concerned with a commonsense size of user party , but it might equally address issues such as litter removal ( incl. bags of salt and empty whisky bottles ) , defaecating against outside walls and the drawing of genitalia in visitors ' books . |
| 8 | They were nurtured by Qaddafi 's rhetoric of individual autonomy ; they survived and became sources of inspiration in Libyans ' conflicts with their state . |
| 9 | FORENSIC scientists are using techniques originally developed to catch arsonists to detect traces of glue in sniffers ' blood . |
| 10 | Early experience with particular individuals is not the only source of variation in adults ' mating preferences . |
| 11 | When I visited the area in 1981 I was regaled with fishermen 's stories of discoloured fish with scabs and other unusual deformities , of boxes of fish removed from the quayside for testing by the authorities , of radiation in seagulls ' eggs , of friends from the same school who had later died unexpectedly of cancer . |
| 12 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 13 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 14 | Many respondents found the discussion paper 's proposals in this area confusing or illogical , which caused the Board to re-examine it and to propose requiring disclosure only of the total amounts of the respective kinds of interest in shareholders ' funds . |