Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 2 | Where Sessions 's military history is filtered through Hollywood , Petherbridge for his ‘ pop-up guide to the theatrical imagination ’ seems to have taken Ronnie Corbett 's rambling monologues as his model . |
| 3 | Similarly , in order to construct a notion of ‘ genre ’ , it is necessary to generalise across experience and determine what it is that is common to fairy stories , chats , news broadcasts , epic poems , debates or salesmen 's routines which enables us to recognise one as being a token of the generalised type . |
| 4 | Over a third had moved , roughly half into their children 's or grandchildren 's homes , and half to live as ‘ lodgers ’ — sometimes with other kin — or go into institutions . |
| 5 | Many people reacted to certain assertions in our own book as if The Passover Plot , or Graves 's King Jesus , or Moore 's The Brook Kerith — or , for that matter , the Koran itself — had never been written . |
| 6 | Previous estimates of the amount of methane emitted by cattle as they digest their food have been based on experiments in sealed chambers , where cattle 's behaviour is different from when they are outside . |
| 7 | I was travelling with camels in hot , arid country under testing conditions where , if things went wrong , I could get no help and where men 's lives depended on my judgement . |
| 8 | The system can be searched by author , title or pupils 's name , as seen with LIBRAFILE above and overdues can be produced for a pupil , a class or for the whole school . |
| 9 | In practice women and men are involved in different ways in giving and receiving support , but much of this is explained not by a cultural definition of what counts as women 's business or men 's business , but by three other factors . |
| 10 | And the pressure remained at the top : no access to the old boys ' clubs or men 's rooms for deal-making , and the constant reminder that ‘ if a man fails it 's because he 's inadequate , but if a female does it 's because of her sex . ’ |
| 11 | PASS CONCERNING WOMEN & CHILDREN 'S ROLE IN THE MINES ? |
| 12 | With a brand new Ferguson 14M1 14in colour TV you will have all the advantages of a second television at a special low price : whether it 's in the kitchen , bedroom or children 's room , a portable television offers you total viewing flexibility . |
| 13 | The recent survey Trends in public library selection policies shows that about 20 % of public libraries do not even allocate to categories such as adult fiction , or children 's books , and very few record stock revision separately . |
| 14 | There was a time when a discussion of children 's literature or children 's reading implied a discussion of ‘ good ’ books — and ‘ good ’ books implied fiction , indeed , the ‘ classics ’ of literature . |
| 15 | We of course understood if he could not move on personal grounds , but those grounds could be related to health , or elderly parents , or children 's schooling — never his wife 's career . |
| 16 | Despite large numbers of women professionals employed in mainstream print and broadcast media in Third World countries , they still tend to be concentrated in sex-stereotyped posts such as announcing or children 's programming , and are largely absent from management and decision-making positions . |
| 17 | A dozen families were consequently contacted by telephone , and asked to provide information about their family life ; self-identified concerns ; parent 's seizure type and frequency ; the child or children 's response to seizures and the relationship of partners . |
| 18 | The popular media — such as Tomorrow 's World , for example , or children 's science books — tend to present science as consisting of benevolent inventions , or a series of clever tricks . |
| 19 | Restaurants qualifying for family-specialist status must also have children 's furniture , a children 's menu and a play corner or children 's lawn . |
| 20 | The family situation will have specific marketing implications , as in the purchase of housing , washing machines or children 's clothes . |
| 21 | 4.30 It is particularly important to consult supervisors when carrying out statutory duties under mental health or children 's legislation . |
| 22 | I see my own skyline , but I am convinced that when my children or children 's children get there there will be another skyline , another horizon , another dawning , another glorious beckoning from heaven itself . |
| 23 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 24 | Yet while these rays tan it now seems UVAs are also the rays which are much more capable of penetrating deeply into the skin , and so cause damage , especially where children 's sensitive skin are concerned . |
| 25 | There is in sociolinguistics an implicit assumption that where women 's speech differs from men 's , it is the behaviour of the women rather than the men that requires explanation ; men are the norm from which women deviate . |
| 26 | You can get help from your GP or from your local Social Services Department and you could contact a local rape crisis centre or women 's refuge . |
| 27 | Being ‘ single issue ’ means SPUC has no position on contraception or women 's rights . |
| 28 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 29 | You can get help from you GP or from your local Social Services Department and you could contact a local rape crisis centre or women 's refuge . |
| 30 | Do you have a hobby — gardening , painting , collecting — or an activity — church or women 's group , political group , etc. — to which you regularly go ? |