Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gran sighed , and the wind came again , rushing round the house with a noise like women 's voices wailing . |
| 32 | 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 ' . |
| 33 | Background music made a change from bookies ' cries . |
| 34 | Thank you for the lovely , lively lunch ‘ hour ’ … made a change from children 's chatter & ’ baby 's gurgling ! |
| 35 | Underlying this increased union activity was a change in women 's consciousness : in their perception of their jobs , their place in society and their role as trade unionists . |
| 36 | Well I think that message is getting across to the P L P and we 've seen more women coming into the House of Commons , sitting on the Labour benches at the last general election , but there also is a sense that the progress , although it 's being made , needs to be speeded up , because when you have profound social changes outside the House of Commons , with a change in women 's role in society , a change in women 's role in the Labour force , and a change in women 's role in the family as well , you ca n't allow your parliament to lag behind . |
| 37 | Well I think that message is getting across to the P L P and we 've seen more women coming into the House of Commons , sitting on the Labour benches at the last general election , but there also is a sense that the progress , although it 's being made , needs to be speeded up , because when you have profound social changes outside the House of Commons , with a change in women 's role in society , a change in women 's role in the Labour force , and a change in women 's role in the family as well , you ca n't allow your parliament to lag behind . |
| 38 | Well I think that message is getting across to the P L P and we 've seen more women coming into the House of Commons , sitting on the Labour benches at the last general election , but there also is a sense that the progress , although it 's being made , needs to be speeded up , because when you have profound social changes outside the House of Commons , with a change in women 's role in society , a change in women 's role in the Labour force , and a change in women 's role in the family as well , you ca n't allow your parliament to lag behind . |
| 39 | Vernage spent his early years in a succession of children 's homes . |
| 40 | During the 1960s , however , this traditional role was partially disarticulated , and replaced with a recognition of women 's sexual pleasure and satisfaction . |
| 41 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 42 | There are more than 1,000 women deacons in the Church of England , awaiting a vote on women 's ordination by the General Synod . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | As a result of women 's ‘ unavoidable ’ domestic responsibilities , women are extremely disadvantaged in the labour market . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | A study of women 's occupations in London for the period 1695 to 1725 has found only 26 from a sample of 256 women who shared the occupation of their spouse and these were usually involved in retailing . |
| 49 | A study of mothers ' reports of their four- and seven-year olds over a four-week period indicated an act of helping ( excluding regular duties ) every day or so . |
| 50 | Spear also found in a study of teachers ' attitudes to girls and technology that the most sex-differentiated replies came from science teachers ( Spear in this volume ) . |
| 51 | Many midwives feel the current emphasis in antenatal care should be of a social nature rather than a medical one , yet Taylor ( 1985 ) , in a study of consumers ' perceptions of maternity care , showed that clients ' emotional needs are often ignored . |
| 52 | For a study of clients ' perspectives with fairly limited time and money , group interviews can be very productive , as in the National Children 's Bureau 's ‘ Who Cares ? ’ study ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) in which young people in care spoke at length about their experiences . |
| 53 | Well , when we were doing the long-running series , Today 's History , it seemed perfectly sensible to do a programme about women 's history , along with a number of other things which were n't adequately covered . |
| 54 | In addition a programme of children 's events takes place every school holiday . |
| 55 | A tension between officials ' perceptions of equity and efficacy is , for them , a familiar dilemma . |
| 56 | Until mass production , the art of cider-making was a sideline of farmers ' wives . |
| 57 | In the Introduction to his History of Sexuality Foucault suggests four strategic unities , linking together a host of practices and techniques of power , which formed specific mechanics of knowledge and power centring on sex : a hysterisation of women 's bodies ; a pedagogisation of children 's sex ; a socialisation of procreative behaviour ; a psychiatrisation of perverse pleasures . |
| 58 | There was a jumble of children 's voices , then the smaller child looked round the door . |
| 59 | Education Secretary John Patten is also fighting off a cut in teachers ' pay and campaigning for his budget to push through education reforms and repair crumbling schools . |
| 60 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |