Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] 's [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 2 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |
| 3 | Her wartime work for the Women 's Voluntary Service and the Red Cross resulted in tremendous changes in her sense of self-worth , in her relationship with her husband and in her attitude towards housework . |
| 4 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 5 | She then lectured on philosophy and economics for the Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 6 | No when used to get music for the Women 's Own choir to do for Mothering Sunday , she used to say keep quiet where you got the copy from . |
| 7 | Lt. Hugh Hutchinson won the RAF inter-service Slalom Challenge Cup , the Robert Redhead Downhill Cup , and the Duchess of York Trophy for the Men 's Overall Champion . |
| 8 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 9 | Suggestions for the children 's own work , as well as the simple ones of drawing , model-making , painting , writing and drama , included : |
| 10 | A piece of magic from Collins settled the issue when he won a tackle and looped over a high pass for Chris Higgs to race clear for the Police 's fourth try . |
| 11 | The warning came at a meeting with Scottish Social Work Minister Lord Fraser during the associations 's annual conference in Inverness . |
| 12 | At the Wolverton end , Polly was stabled in the Engineer 's yard during the men 's working period . |
| 13 | At Woodhole , the Earth 's magnetism pulls downwards and during the bacteria 's short life of an hour or so , they move in the direction of this force . |
| 14 | This trend was welcomed by articulate working class women 's groups such as the Women 's Cooperative Guild , because of poor working class housing conditions and because they believed that working class wives needed a respite from the cares of managing a household . |
| 15 | By the end of World War 1 , working class women 's groups , such as the Women 's Labour League , were making three basic demands in terms of housing design : an indoor bathroom , a scullery/kitchen for cooking , and a front parlour . |
| 16 | The scheme only operated because of the assistance given voluntarily by groups such as the Women 's Voluntary Service , 17,000 of whose members were mobilised on 1 September . |
| 17 | But what about the children 's primary need , that of contact with their families ? |
| 18 | The chapter indicates how , in spite of the fact that medical reports are a statutory requirement for children entering care , no systematic collation of information takes place , and little is known about the children 's physical health . |
| 19 | Her Social Conditions in Oxford ( 1912 ) grew out of her three earlier local preoccupations : housing reform , getting adolescents into skilled work , and ( through the Women 's Industrial Council ) extending women 's job opportunities . |
| 20 | A SUNNY HALLOWE'EN MORNING in Houstin , midway through The Shamen 's American tour , and Colin Angus is sitting by the hotel pool . |
| 21 | ( ‘ I 'm a member of the Women 's Sportsfighting Club ’ , explains Carri a 17 year old skin from Clapham , ‘ I do wrestling , judo , boxing and sportsfighting . |
| 22 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 23 | Hertha Ayrton was a strong supporter of the women 's movement , a representative of the Women 's International League , and an original member of the International Federation of University Women ( 1919 ) and of the National Union of Scientific Workers ( 1920 ) . |
| 24 | Throughout the 1920s and 1930s her moderate and conciliatory personality worked to mediate between the revolutionary and the gradualist wings of the Women 's International League ( founded under Jane Addams at The Hague in 1915 ) as she served on its international executive . |
| 25 | She was one of the founders of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom . |
| 26 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 27 | For example , the experience of members of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , who in both their own estimation and that of observers were adjudged respectable married women , shows that family misfortune , particularly in the form of sickness and unemployment , could quickly plunge a family into poverty , whereupon the wife would probably resort to strategies similar to those of her poorer sister . |
| 28 | These findings are reminiscent of the self-reported morbid conditions of the Women 's Cooperative Guild members published in 1915 . |
| 29 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 30 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |