Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] 's [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you ready to go now ? ’ he said , his voice sounding deep and harsh after the Women 's frail tones . |
| 3 | of a sort of they call one of the women 's essential oils er cos I suppose they think rose was a woman really do n't they . |
| 4 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |
| 5 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 6 | Within months of his marriage his wife , Florence , was leader of the women 's social services . |
| 7 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 8 | In those early stages , support workers , who were highly motivated to give Elizabeth and Helen a ‘ better life ’ , felt that the demands of the women 's physical needs , together with Elizabeth 's state of mind , undermined hopes for their social progress . |
| 9 | Robyn thinks she must be in Angleside , because the faces of the people slithering on the pavements or huddled miserably at bus-stops are mostly swarthy and dark-eyed , and the bright silks of saris , splashed with mud , gleam beneath the hems of the women 's drab topcoats . |
| 10 | Just as the slightest of doubts about him crossed my mind — perhaps during one of his endless lists of the women 's sexual problems — he would throw in a sensible remark about the funding of the National Health Service , or the small amount of time GPs can offer patients , and recovered his credibility . |
| 11 | The women and children take charge of the cattle 's night-time arrangements , gently guiding and scolding them . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't part of the clergy 's pastoral duties to know how to use fingerbowls , ’ he said testily . |
| 13 | He has vowed not to miss a moment of the children 's formulative years . |
| 14 | He has vowed not to miss a moment of the children 's formulative years . |
| 15 | This showed that , on average , children adopted by high-earning families had an IQ 12 points higher than similar children adopted by low-earning families — whatever the social class of the children 's natural parents . |
| 16 | Naturally , Waafs were never allowed inside the sacred portals of the men 's living quarters . ) |
| 17 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 18 | And yet the effective place of this life-soiled object is in the body of the book , nourishing the reality of the whole Marmeladov set-up , like the children 's washed day-clothes drying overnight . |
| 19 | Finally , two sets of adults most involved with the formal teaching of ‘ stranger-danger ’ , viz. primary schoolteachers and community involvement police officers , will be asked to repeat the experimental tasks , predicting how children would respond , in order to compare their predictions with the children 's actual responses . |
| 20 | In this way , the organizational climate interacts with the men 's personal qualities to predispose the majority of them to define their role as one of community service . |
| 21 | On Sunday play starts with the mixed doubles at 9am with the men 's open singles starting at 10am . |
| 22 | These interviews are directed at building up life histories for forty female offenders and are analysed with the aim of identifying significant turning points in the women 's criminal careers . |
| 23 | They were brittle , however , and we had tears as some ‘ wicked mega-whoppers ’ disintegrated in the children 's eager hands . |
| 24 | SCOTLAND suffered mixed fortunes yesterday with the women 's side romping to a 138-82 win over Ireland in the opening game of the Home International series in Perth , while in the men 's British championships at Swansea , the Scots were left empty-handed . |
| 25 | COLIN Jackson , a disappointment at the Barcelona Olympics , beat American silver medallist Tony Dees in the men 's high hurdles at the Zurich Grand Prix athletics meeting last night . |
| 26 | Only about between 2 to 5 per cent of student union and NUS activity is political but right-wingers have long complained about what they see as the domination of unrepresentative Labour-supporting and left-wing groups in the NUS 's political activities . |
| 27 | Lowering his eyes , he stared in some bemusement at the men 's over-large dungarees she was wearing . |
| 28 | The truth is that C is a convenient scapegoat for those upset by The Shamen 's commercial ambitions and looking for a way to convince themselves that , underneath it all , Colin 's still credible . |
| 29 | One school was so impressed by the children 's positive reactions that they completely revamped the science work in the first two years to include more social and human applications of science . |