Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attention new feminists paid to women 's needs as mothers represented a shift of emphasis and by no means implied a rejection of the equal rights philosophy . |
| 2 | Val Stephens , the Chair of the Equal Opportunities Committee , and the late Margaret Roff , the lesbian Vice-Chair , shared the concern of local activists about the dangers of bureaucratizing the struggle against oppression . |
| 3 | Joanna Foster , chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities Commission , says that while virtually every politician and company has accepted that more must be done , there have been more words than action : ‘ Provision is patchy and mostly accessible only to high income groups . |
| 4 | The budget of the Equal Opportunities Commission has been cut in real terms during recent years ; the report says : ‘ equal opportunity remains only an ideal ’ . |
| 5 | Christine Jackson , a Manchester-based national officer of the Equal Opportunities Commission and personal friend of Horsley for thirty years , became Director of Personnel in charge of Equal Opportunities . |
| 6 | The speakers who addressed the conference were Oliver Kearney for Springhill Community House , David Bass of the Milltown Action Team , Bob Cooper of the Fair Employment Commission , Liam Parker of Worknet , Alisdair McDonnell of the Phoenix Trust , Stevie Johnston of Falls Community Council , Brendan McCarthy of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee Royal Victoria Hospital , Mary Clarke-Glass of the Equal Opportunities Commission , Laura McCartney of the Northern Ireland Council on Disability , Caitriona Ruane of the West Belfast Action for the Unemployed , Mike Tomlinson of Obair , and Liam McCarney of Glenand . |
| 7 | ( See the annual reports of the Equal Opportunities Commission , the body responsible for promoting equality between the sexes , which monitors and analyses the proportion of men and women entering higher and further education courses . ) |
| 8 | Other forms of alternative dispute resolution , some of which arise out of Government initiatives , include the involvement of the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service in many industrial disputes , the work of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality in the settlement of disputes in their fields of interest , the role of ‘ ombudsmen ’ to deal with disputes in the banking and insurance worlds , as well as complaints against central and local administration and the National Health Service , the various alternative methods for resolving consumer disputes , and the use of arbitration to resolve commercial dispute in private . |
| 9 | ‘ The Law Society is proud that a solicitor and member of its Council has been chosen for the important post of Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission . |
| 10 | It is tempting to compare the role of the Commissioner with that of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality , bodies that are empowered to support individual cases in connection with complaints about discrimination on grounds of sex or race respectively . |
| 11 | Questionnaires were first designed with the assistance of the Equal Opportunities Commission and sent to samples of women and men barristers and Heads of Chambers at the Independent Bar . |
| 12 | The Law Society has issued guidance notes for equal opportunities in solicitors ' firms which reproduce a standard policy for their use which has been drawn up on the basis of recommendations of the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 13 | This includes consultancy fees for the development and implementation of the equal opportunities programme and for the sex discrimination survey . |
| 14 | DRG has spread the surplus over 8.5 years , which is long enough to justify valuing it as part of the overall earnings stream . |
| 15 | The Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the overall odds ratio and its variance were calculated from a set of studies by the Robins-Breslow-Greenland method . |
| 16 | A pooled estimate of the overall odds ratio of drop out was calculated by weighting each odds ratio by the inverse of the variance ; thus studies with more subjects were given more weight . |
| 17 | Their lawyer , Patricia Hambrecht , says : ‘ We witnessed a dramatic drop in our appraisal business for donations to institutions , and even though we realised it was not in our narrow self-interest , we knew it was for the good of the overall arts community ’ . |
| 18 | And what would be the reaction of the average police officer to this response from the computer : ‘ Gosh … |
| 19 | If its cost effectiveness was equal to that of the average police authority , it would be able to recruit up to full establishment . |
| 20 | Radwan Abu Ayyash , head of the Arab Journalists Association , was released from " administrative detention " on April 12 . |
| 21 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 22 | How do smaller companies meet their capital raising requirements , particularly in emergence from recession ; particularly in the face of venture capitalists , many of whom have become more renowned for risk averse than risk taking strategies ; particularly in the face of clearing banks ' policy which does not exactly involve them rushing to throw loan finance about as they emerge from one of the most traumatic periods in their history ; and particularly in the face of the closure of the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) with no successor currently in sight ? |
| 23 | A SOUTHERN Counties Chess Union representative team easily defeated county champions Kent in a friendly match at Charlton House , Greenwich , south London , commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Southern Counties Chess Union . |
| 24 | MPs familiar with claims for workmen 's compensation , or the operation of the Industrial Injuries Compensation Scheme , took a leading part . |
| 25 | of basic importance for understanding the functioning of the industrial relations system is the distribution of power resources between sellers and buyers of manpower and changes in this distribution . |
| 26 | Institutions must be considered within the general context of the industrial relations system of which they are an integral part … [ given that ] the point of departure of international comparison can not be an institution as such but must be the function it carries out . |
| 27 | And functions are a reflection of the operation of the industrial relations system in its entirety . |
| 28 | As Kassalow argues , ‘ without a fair understanding of the social , economic and political setting of the industrial relations system in a given country one can make errors of analysis or judgment , or , even more likely , learn only half truths about the significance of particular industrial relations policies or practices in a foreign country ’ ( 1968 : 99 ; cf. Shalev 1980 : 40 ) . |
| 29 | The EAT is the indirect successor to the National Industrial Relations Court which was so unloved by trades unions that it could not survive in its original form the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 30 | The CBI , and large companies in particular , refused to use the new powers of the Industrial Relations Act for fear of stirring up even more trouble , leaving them for smaller maverick employers to exploit , and discredit , in highly contentious situations . |