Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty was jealous of Nails 's riding Switchback with Biddy all to himself every night but had to admit it had saved their chance for the competition . |
| 2 | ‘ If you remained a friend of Bills 's — and it was difficult not to — you were forced to admit that modesty did not rate highly in his scheme of the virtues . |
| 3 | This realization has led to the abandonment of the large institutional type of children 's home and a policy favouring the boarding out of children in ordinary homes where possible . |
| 4 | They make adequate monitoring of children 's learning a particularly demanding task and children themselves may find that such arrangements reduce their opportunities for the quiet , concentrated study required by the reading and writing activities which dominate their curriculum . |
| 5 | The majority of the discussion so far has been concerned with the assessment of children 's artistic rather than their aesthetic development . |
| 6 | These parts of the Act govern the provision , conduct and management of the various categories of children 's home . |
| 7 | And between n and s of children 's , and d and s in ward 's . |
| 8 | Their average earnings have stayed at two-thirds of men 's for the past decade , with employers segregating the sexes in job grades , said the commission . |
| 9 | Women tend to earn less than their male counterparts ( women 's wages were 73.5 per cent of men 's in 1979 ) , and to be in less stable areas of employment and more frequently in part-time work than men ( Bruegel , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Shulamith Firestone undoubtedly did everyone a great service by vigorously extending this notion to women , and pointing out the absurdity of men 's viewing themselves as totally detached individuals in relation to the rest of society , while still expecting to go home to a wife who would always have their dinner hot for them in the evening . |
| 11 | The crucial factors are the relative opportunity costs and the ratio of men 's to women 's earnings . |
| 12 | These increases in women 's relative wage rates , from about 65 per cent of men 's in the 1960s to 75 per cent by 1975 , can be shown to have substantially reduced the number of births during the 1970s — by 130,000 — and made their timing more volatile ( de Cooman , Ermisch , and Joshi 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | Women 's gross hourly earnings as a proportion of men 's increased , under the influence of equal pay legislation , from 63.1 per cent in 1970 to 75.5 per cent in 1977 . |
| 14 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 15 | Well , men , the fabrics of men 's usually better , stronger |
| 16 | ‘ Difference ’ researchers by contrast see it as evidence of women 's more cooperative , more person-oriented style . |
| 17 | The effect of the sharp rise of the ratio of women 's to men 's wages in 1972 is evident in the graph ( Ermisch 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The fact that such a statue could be produced , and was apparently meaningful to women , shows something of women 's yearning in their religion in a culture which is now deeply conscious of feminist issues . |
| 19 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 20 | As with men 's share of unpaid household work , indicators such as the ratio of women 's to men 's rates of pay , plotted in figure 10.2 , and women 's share in household earnings , have shown some changes but still display a gulf between the sexes . |
| 21 | The slowly evolving British family leaves a much more easily discernible impact on women 's employment in Britain than the possible reverse influence of women 's earning opportunities on family formation and dissolution . |
| 22 | Cultural and social forces are also likely to be important in explaining the fall in fertility , but among economic factors the ratio of women 's to men 's pay emerges as having contributed to falling birth rates during the 1970s . |
| 23 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |
| 24 | They acknowledged the importance of motherhood : Mill wrote of wives ‘ naturally ’ running a household and teaching their children , and of women 's ‘ naturally ’ greater elegance and taste . |
| 25 | Seth suggests that our beliefs are like children 's playing blocks , which can be moved around with ease : ‘ … all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play , as opposed to work . ’ |
| 26 | We ate by the light of three candles and our eyes all shone like children 's around the table . |
| 27 | Useful advice for school librarians is also included in " Getting started with micros 's a booklet produced for ILEA school and college librarians and in Costa and Costa 's A micro handbook . |
| 28 | hang on , could you do the same with fishermen 's , could they not have an apostrophe after the s . |
| 29 | She concludes that women 's views need to be considered and then synthesised with men 's to ‘ find a human whole ’ . |
| 30 | Yes , but plants evolved with men 's , man 's |