Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [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 We 'll end up today by talking a bit about children 's role play .
6 I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools .
7 IRELAND is to hold a referendum on women 's rights to go abroad for abortions and to obtain information in Ireland before doing so .
8 There were many highlights in her career as a campaigner for women 's rights , but it may be that her greatest contribution was the way she inspired others .
9 She was secretary of the Tollemarche United Church Willing Workers ' Group , vice-president ( not president ! ) of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre , a driver for Cripples ' Transport , a member of the Car Dealers ' Wives Society and , she would remind him , a member of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals .
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 a reduction in men 's pensionable age is ruled out for the foreseeable future on grounds of cost … on the other hand , the government believes that raising the pensionable age for women would be unfair to women who have contributed over the years in the expectation of a pension at 60 .
13 The expectation is that by increasing patient participation in this way the project will achieve a reduction in patients ' forgetting and misunderstanding of instructions and advice , and a reduction in the number of questions which occur to patients after their consultation .
14 The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill .
15 It did a Big Ben chime , and I heard a chorus of kids ' shouts from inside .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 This makes it difficult to tell whether HP and other retail credit , as a part of consumers ' overall spending , is now increasing or declining .
20 The requirements for a defence of volenti non fit injuria in a negligence action are a matter for some controversy .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 ( The rockery , left to my care , degenerated into a mass of elephants ' ears and clumps of coarse grass . )
24 Past meets present : a gathering/reunion of CUBs ' chairmen .
25 The answer requires some specification of a ‘ quantity rule ’ ; that is , a description of agents ' behaviour when , because of price stickiness , disequilibrium prevails .
26 While some contributions amount to little more than a description of manufacturers ' software , others delve into the concepts and methodologies .
27 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 .
28 On the other hand , if it was quite clear and unambiguous then a written form was preferred Okay , now a study by Daft et al , Daft as in y'know one marble short of a whatever yeah or okay er Daft et al nineteen eighty-seven had a look at managers ' use of er of these two different media and found that in general most managers were media sensitive .
29 Forget the financial pages — have a look at women 's skirts !
30 its settings for mouse let's have a look in drivers erm you have n't got a mouse , have you ?
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