Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty among young people on income support is now so bad that it 's affecting their physical and mental health , according to a leading children 's charity . |
| 2 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 3 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |
| 4 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |
| 5 | This sexism was traced in the stereotyping of women ( the madonna/whore dichotomy of classic Hollywood is a well-known example ) , and critics implicitly or explicitly called for an authentic women 's cinema which would portray real women as they really are . |
| 6 | For ten weeks in the summer , Vorarlberg also offers the largest programme of children 's event in Europe ; the little town of Bludenz plays host to a huge Children 's Chocolate Festival , and 1000kg of Suchard chocolate is donated for the occasion . |
| 7 | Hopkins refers to a German seamen 's manifesto of March 1917 , " with its impudent assertion that , apart from a few " isolated mistakes " U-boat warfare had been conducted with respect for human and humane principles " . |
| 8 | It had been planned as a separate men 's and women 's race , with the latter being sent off 20 minutes earlier , but only Dorre managed to stick to the plan , winning in 2hr 29min 38sec . |
| 9 | Both parents ordered him to stop calling his sister ‘ Brian ’ , a nickname derived from a slow and rather dull-witted snail who featured in a popular children 's TV show , ‘ The Magic Roundabout ’ . |
| 10 | A new paperback edition of Maeve Kelly 's first novel — an urgent , provocative story of a woman 's escape from the claustrophobia of provincial family life and her baptism of fire into the feminist movement , working for a battered women 's refuge . |
| 11 | While there existed a small women 's civil rights organization , the Liga Femenina Salvadorena , whose members were from the impatient middle classes , it could not be described as a broad women 's suffrage movement . |