Example sentences of "in [noun pl] ' [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1981 English House Condition Survey ( Department of the Environment 1982 ) supports the general urban-rural differences found in 1976 , although slight changes in surveyors ' classifications of district as rural , urban or conurbations make precise comparisons difficult . |
| 2 | However , it does appear that the notion of language teachers joining a profession with its own history does not figure largely in tutors ' conceptions of their work , that English tutors do not see ‘ language ’ as something requiring separate attention , and that all tutors tend to play down aspects of language policy or language in society . |
| 3 | Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) . |
| 4 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 5 | I am interested in readers ' experiences of this phenomenon , their encounters with the players and the stories that have grown up around some of the longer serving recruits . |
| 6 | Nowhere was this clearer than in moralists ' take-up of scientific logic and a language of rationality . |
| 7 | It is usually the case that those things which best suit the Michels model are social movement organizations which have goals which can be ‘ compromised ’ because they are things — like an increase in workers ' standards of living or an improvement in working conditions — which are divisible . |
| 8 | The second document , which covers Excise and Inland Customs , details improvements in Customs ' provision of information ; lays down specific standards on replying to enquiries ; provides clear advice on how to complain ; sets standards on how Customs will deal with complaints ; and clarifies the policy of reducing business ' burdens by simplifying and standardising regimes . |
| 9 | The reasons for this discrepancy probably lie in the different modes of service organization and in practitioners ' rationing of their own services , given scarcity of time , but other unexplored factors ( related to diagnosis or accommodation for example ) may also enter here . |
| 10 | As in the later Middle Ages , individual interest won out over class interest in landlords ' poaching of peasants from their peers ' estates . |
| 11 | Moreover , notwithstanding the different degrees to which individual teachers appeared to have taken on board the implications for progressive pedagogies , we believe that a substantial improvement in teachers ' awareness of the potential of the library as a central resource , and of the development of information-handling skills entailed therein , was a real consequence of the project in this school . |
| 12 | This involves a difference in teachers ' perception of themselves and of other professionals . |
| 13 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 14 | In the USA at least , there needs to be an improvement in scientists ' understandings of how to influence the allocation of funding for remedial measures or for further research ( see Kitsos and Ashe 1989 ) . |
| 15 | One may therefore think of an innovation in teaching methods as being designed to achieve a set of intentions ( eg , changes in pupils ' ways of thinking ) by means of a set of processes which are usually only rather coarsely determined . |
| 16 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
| 17 | Perhaps ironically , one important factor preventing precision and continuity in princes ' demands of their castellans was the intervention of other princes . |