Example sentences of "a [noun] in [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman spoke with anxiety of the possibility of a rise in miners ' wages as a consequence of this Bill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The reason why a cut in members ' allowances was not in our budget is I think we did n't consider it and we did n't consider it because the figures involved are so small that it was n't a matter which was , as I say , worthy of financial comment , although I accept it has a political dimension . |
| 7 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 8 | The government banks with the Bank of England , therefore the daily flows of funds between the private and public sectors are reflected in equal but opposite changes in two of the Bank 's liabilities , a flow towards the government , for example , causing a fall in bankers ' deposits and a matching rise in public deposits . |
| 9 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 10 | This involves a difference in teachers ' perception of themselves and of other professionals . |
| 11 | This wastes space , but the user will not be able to avoid such a shortcoming in manufacturers ' software by any other technique . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , it would be misleading to ‘ read off ’ from the unemployment situation a decline in workers ' resolve to take independent action . |
| 13 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |