Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ ? |
| 2 | Many academic feminist psychologists emphasize women 's and men 's common biological natures , and want the understanding of this to spread to men , instead of being concentrated in women , as at present ( e.g. Bardwick 1972 , Baumrind 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The point that the position of women is not an independent factor , a simple enough point in itself , but one often explicitly refused and , more commonly , implicitly ignored , is again one which most anthropologists would now entirely support , even though they rarely acknowledge Engels 's work . |
| 4 | Showell Styles 's sea-stones , moderately coloured by invention , provide entertainment in the broadest sense . |
| 5 | Christ ripped away the cover and put men 's obligations to their fellow men on full view . |
| 6 | In the streets they affect the manners of a pantomime dame to gain attention : they pinch men 's buttocks , purposely make buffoons of themselves , but are quick to take offence . |
| 7 | ‘ Go on , my love , ’ she used to whisper in Estella 's ear , ‘ break men 's hearts and have no mercy ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure you know , sir , that women do not , on the whole , break men 's necks . |
| 9 | WOMEN SPEAKOUT : Count Women 's Work — Legislation Now ! takes place on March 8 at Manchester Town Hall , Reception Room , ( Lloyd St entrance ) , Albert Square , Manchester . |
| 10 | ‘ A day a week for life , ’ says Quadracci.Peters says such traits closely match women 's inherent strengths and men 's inherent weaknesses . |
| 11 | Those who scorn or censure women 's talk diminish women . |
| 12 | These sentences support Erades 's and Wood 's intuitions about the meaning of the bare infinitive construction . |
| 13 | Remove women 's facial hair , if needed . |
| 14 | It is fiscal changes , however , which reveal women 's double burden of second-class work status and family obligations and dramatise the government 's contradictory attitude to women : since April 1990 , married men and women have been separately taxed ; but this is a phantom recognition of women because the married couple 's new allowance is given to the husband . |
| 15 | The danger here is that stand personnel 's time can be taken up talking to the converted , whereas the objective should be to seek to interest potential customers . |
| 16 | Findspots and masons ' marks confirm Pausanias 's division of the subjects between east and west , and his order ( except that by a slip he omits the dragging of Cerberus from Hades ) . |
| 17 | Thus women are caught in a double bind : if they take a ‘ compliment ’ at face value they confirm men 's right to treat them as ‘ open persons ’ , while if they ignore the remark or reply negatively they may be accused of rudeness and/or showered with abuse . |
| 18 | It 's not like reading a story , which you have been doing because you 're a child and you read children 's stories in which you have people and things , it 's about entirely abstract ideas and |
| 19 | I mean I enjoy children 's programmes |
| 20 | All I ever do when my husband is at work is sit at home and watch children 's television . |
| 21 | The government defended this charge by arguing that some LEAs manipulated the curriculum for ideological purposes rather than solely seeking to accommodate electors ' wishes and meet children 's needs . |
| 22 | Brathay Women 's Institute decided to work on Spinning Galleries , and as I am a spinner and weaver and at that time was a member of the Institute , I became involved in the search for galleries . |
| 23 | While holding that gender differences in political behaviour are small they also challenge the criteria by which the political is defined and evaluated in malestream analysis , and the degree to which these criteria underestimate women 's political contributions . |
| 24 | Older women are also more likely to have acquired the male-identified characteristics that frequently accompany women 's integration into psychological professions . |
| 25 | Many girls and young women also read women 's magazines with cigarette advertisements [ 5 ] . |
| 26 | I could almost smell the peat and oil from the lamps ; the flour and the sugar in the big bins and sacks ; and hear children 's voices echoing through the rambling old house . |
| 27 | Again however the emphasis is on co-operative effort and , at the end of the 1979/80 year , the school set about producing review reports that would ‘ collectively reflect the ways in which staff plan and organise children 's learning ’ . |
| 28 | Reformers argue that the only way to improve education is to introduce tests that measure children 's ability to think analytically . |
| 29 | ( 1981 ) , for instance , revalue women 's lack of egotism , which has strongly negative implications in psychology , by calling it modesty . |
| 30 | take part in and encourage children 's educational and leisure activities |