Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 2 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 3 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 4 | It will 1 ) examine more fully the extent to which primary schools vary in their effects on a variety of pupils ' educational outcomes , including progress in reading and maths ; 2 ) establish whether the composition of pupil intakes is related to effectiveness ; 3 ) find out whether school vary in their effectiveness from year to year and whether their effects on pupils persist into secondary school . |
| 5 | Mr. McAvoy : If any bid included a reduction of employees ' pension rights , may we have a firm commitment from the Minister that the Government would not give that bid the go-ahead ? |
| 6 | In this case , the economic circumstances of a hospital necessitated , as the only alternative to closure ( in the employer 's view ) , a reduction of employees ' holidays , the abolition of overtime rates , replacement of a generous sick pay scheme by statutory sick pay and a standstill on pay levels . |
| 7 | It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside . |
| 8 | As I have already suggested , transmission styles are much more widespread than this , though : so familiar a part of teachers ' experience , in fact , that their practice quickly becomes a matter of habit and routine , of taken-for-granted competence , not strategic choice . |
| 9 | We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do . |
| 10 | The conventional sociological approach to housework could be termed ‘ sexist ’ : it has treated housework merely as an aspect of the feminine role in the family — as a part of women 's role in marriage , or as a dimension of child-rearing — not as a work role . |
| 11 | This makes it difficult to tell whether HP and other retail credit , as a part of consumers ' overall spending , is now increasing or declining . |
| 12 | The requirements for a defence of volenti non fit injuria in a negligence action are a matter for some controversy . |
| 13 | 1.7 If the judge is undecided on the other evidence after he has heard both sides then the conviction is conclusive , but the judge is not precluded from making a finding of contributory negligence against the plaintiff or accepting ( in an appropriate case ) a defence of volenti non fit injuria ( Murphy v Culhane [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 533 ) . |
| 14 | It is therefore possible for a defendant in a negligence action to raise a defence of volenti non fit injuria , but consent to the risk in question can not be inferred merely from the other party 's knowledge of the purported exclusion . |
| 15 | ( The rockery , left to my care , degenerated into a mass of elephants ' ears and clumps of coarse grass . ) |
| 16 | Past meets present : a gathering/reunion of CUBs ' chairmen . |
| 17 | The answer requires some specification of a ‘ quantity rule ’ ; that is , a description of agents ' behaviour when , because of price stickiness , disequilibrium prevails . |
| 18 | While some contributions amount to little more than a description of manufacturers ' software , others delve into the concepts and methodologies . |
| 19 | The support manoeuvre had been undertaken in order to outbid an existing takeover offer for Distillers from the Argyll supermarket group ; in April 1986 a majority of Distillers ' shareholders voted to accept the Guinness bid , then valued at £2,700 million ( US$5,180 million ) , and the merger of Guinness and Distillers was duly completed after clearance from the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 20 | It has set up a Directorate of Women 's Affairs and has sponsored a musical show , ‘ The Women ’ s Vision ’ , which is taken around the villages by travelling artists . |
| 21 | During the past two years , there has been a settlement of travellers ' caravans in a parking area at the centre of Robton in Central Scotland . |
| 22 | It will be used by owners , and other users for making decisions in respect of continued investment in that enterprise and help them to form a judgement of managers ' performance etc . |
| 23 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 24 | Vernage spent his early years in a succession of children 's homes . |
| 25 | During the 1960s , however , this traditional role was partially disarticulated , and replaced with a recognition of women 's sexual pleasure and satisfaction . |
| 26 | A dilution of women 's traditional commitment to the housewife role is , then , rare even in those families where there is symmetry between husband and wife on the paid job dimension . |
| 27 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 28 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 29 | As a result of women 's ‘ unavoidable ’ domestic responsibilities , women are extremely disadvantaged in the labour market . |
| 30 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |