Example sentences of "a [noun sg] on [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | IRELAND is to hold a referendum on women 's rights to go abroad for abortions and to obtain information in Ireland before doing so . |
| 2 | There are more than 1,000 women deacons in the Church of England , awaiting a vote on women 's ordination by the General Synod . |
| 3 | It is significant that Charlotte Lennox 's The Female Quixote , one of the most interesting novels of its time , is essentially a satire on women 's education . |
| 4 | No party would now dare go to the voters promising a prohibition on women 's right to work and to a wage . |
| 5 | But the essential conservatism of UDC thinking is revealed in the fact that , apart from a footnote on women 's suffrage , the only addition made to a platform written within weeks of the outbreak of war was a commitment to the defence of free trade . |
| 6 | A recent study conducted by Women Against Rape revealed that 60 out of 1,236 women who responded to a questionnaire on women 's safety had been raped by their husbands . |
| 7 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 8 | A report on women 's work during World War I made the point that women 's employment might be a lesser evil than poverty . |
| 9 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 10 | Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work . |
| 11 | She also mentioned the Factory Acts as a restriction on women 's usefulness to employers . |
| 12 | The central figure on this occasion was the more locally known organizer , Margaret Irwin of Glasgow , acknowledged to be an expert on women 's trades in Scotland . ] " |
| 13 | ‘ I am an expert on women 's hands . |
| 14 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 15 | By then an issue on women 's rights was already in the planning stage . |
| 16 | They continue to have an impact on women 's involvement in public religion and on social attitude towards ‘ the female ’ . |
| 17 | The use of alternative media , when sustained , has indeed had an impact on women 's knowledge and skills and is capable of reaching significant numbers of local women . |
| 18 | Knowing when particular comparisons--with individuals and between groups--exert an impact on children 's self-evaluations will help parents and teachers to guide children towards appropriate comparisons for maximizing their well-being . |
| 19 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |