Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , André was always a hit with the girls , and he did have a certain effeminate appeal and a wonderful way with words , but he lacked Piers 's vitality , the vibrant sexuality that seemed to smoulder away inside him . |
| 2 | To do this the distance on the graph from X to each of the three points ( water , grassland and pine forest ) is calculated using Pythagoras 's theorem , and pixel X is allocated to the class for which this distance is the shortest . |
| 3 | The threat from the employers was paralleled by that from disgruntled seamen or former agents of the union who felt that they had personal grievances against Wilson or cherished ambitions to establish seamen 's organizations of their own . |
| 4 | I remember driving Piers 's car somewhere near Carcassonne . |
| 5 | While such data should help to concentrate managers 's minds on the need to improve efficiency , the paperwork generated by putting the business out to tender and negotiating on the replies is a significant additional burden . |
| 6 | Here , we are concerned with the way in which Piaget described children 's ‘ knowledge of the world ’ at different stages of development . |
| 7 | *a proportion of the proceeds from each sale will fund children 's educational grants |
| 8 | Primary schools must respect children 's talk , as pupils put into words their thoughts and feelings , explore new ideas and deepen understanding . |
| 9 | A traditional concern of the English teacher has always been to develop the ways in which children interpret texts , spoken or written , literary or non-literary , and to increase children 's understanding of how texts convey multiple layers of meaning and meanings expressed from different points of view . |
| 10 | Media education … seeks to increase children 's critical understanding of the media — namely , television , film , video , photography , popular music , printed materials , and computer software . |
| 11 | Moreover , it is permissible to make objects multi-functional , for example where a speed-bump is designed also to attract children 's play . |
| 12 | I 'm co-ordinating children 's ministries there . |
| 13 | When an invitation is to a whole family , you need not include children 's names on the envelope . |
| 14 | Penalties may be combined with rewards in order to modify children 's behaviour . |
| 15 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 16 | Sorry to disturb you but these are times that are sent to try men 's souls . ’ |
| 17 | A display in the entrance hall headed ‘ These are our absolutely wonderful entries to the Cadbury 's children 's art competition ’ will boost children 's morale and self-esteem whatever judges in distant places may think . |
| 18 | If you like , you could pipe children 's names on to each animal too . |
| 19 | Such arrangements are also often associated with the custom of keeping men 's and women 's worlds sharply segregated , although as Saifullah Khan ( 1976 ) points out in her discussion of purdah in Bradford , the luxury of remaining truly separate could only ever be afforded by the comparatively wealthy . |
| 20 | This project aims to evaluate the usefulness of two styles of motivation in understanding children 's learning and behavioural difficulties . |
| 21 | Teachers had to learn to accept children 's idiosyncratic ideas , even those which appeared to them to be wholly misconceived or ridiculous . |
| 22 | Part of what is wrong with pornographic eroticism , where people are not treated as autonomous , is that it reinforces men 's desires to treat women as means , as objects , in areas of their lives other than the erotic . |
| 23 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 24 | In order to standardise children 's learning , teachers tend to standardise their approach to teaching . |
| 25 | In This New Season , a book about English teaching in Stepney , Chris Searle expresses his belief in the validity of working-class culture and the English teacher 's responsibility to encourage children 's pride in their own identity . |
| 26 | It was a programme concerned to encourage children 's visual awareness through the careful observation of the variety of tangible things in their environment . |
| 27 | We ca n't we devise publishing concepts which capture children 's imaginations in such a way that they are confident to spend as much time talking about what they have been reading as they are about last night 's episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ ? |
| 28 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 29 | 1 long hook on a stick ( to retrieve children 's toys , balls , etc. , which roll way beyond red cordon which says DO NOT GO BEYOND THIS RED CORDON ) |
| 30 | Nevertheless the Church could not preserve men 's minds from modern heresy ; it failed in the campaign to exclude ‘ dangerous ’ books nor could it prevent the influence of contacts established by Aranda and others with the French intellectuals . |