Example sentences of "[adj] boy ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | In a list of favourite boys ' books compiled by Edward Salmon in 1888 , Kingston came second to Dickens , and Salmon observed , ‘ Mr Kingston is Captain Marryat transformed from a novelist into a juvenile romanticist ’ . |
| 3 | In this way the real principles of powerlessness which govern these boys ' lives are both doubled over and displaced by the sense of being overpowered or outnumbered by a group which in political and demographic terms are in an even weaker position than they are . |
| 4 | Michael turned slowly away from the doctor and placing one hand on the banister and the other on the wall he slid down , jumping over the younger boys ' heads . |
| 5 | In these colourful tales , which we might almost believe were collected from early copies of ancient Israelite boys ' comics , Samson wages a one-man war against the Philistines , who are represented as having control of the country . |
| 6 | Last year , Durham swept the board at the National Boys ' Clubs championships , winning all four team events and claiming two individual gold medals in a superb performance . |
| 7 | However , the ‘ everyday ’ , according to these texts , is a world of football , cricket , men driving cars and traditional boys ' hobbies whether the topic is statistics , measurement or velocity . |
| 8 | When they had got into bed , it was Toby 's custom to read them a chapter or two of a book — the school had a tattered library of elderly boys ' books , most of them left behind by ex-pupils . |
| 9 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 10 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 11 | Or all boys ' schools . |
| 12 | tragically yes , or all boys ' schools you know here are young men who have had thousands of pounds spent on their education , and when they arrive in an environment like Oxford they somehow seem to be less capable than other young men of behaving with decency towards the students they are being educated with . |
| 13 | The artificiality of so many boys ' adventures is the result of miscalculation in this aspect of story-telling . |
| 14 | Any additional revenue goes into funding more boys ' towns . |
| 15 | In one case it was held that because such disparity would result from the closure by an LEA of the only two single-sex boys ' schools in its area , whilst the authority permitted its two girls ' schools to remain , there was unlawful sex discrimination . |
| 16 | Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return . |
| 17 | The heads , from top independent boys ' schools , want to reduce A-level failures by letting students study at their own pace . |
| 18 | This is small boys ' ideas of sex |
| 19 | In addition , the gender of the partner affected toy choice ; there was more cross-gender toy choice in the action play of mixed pairs , but the oldest girls used boys ' toys less in their pretend play when in the company of a boy . |
| 20 | One solution was to provide an organization for the 13–17 age-group , such as the Working Boys ' Brigades formed in the 1860s , and the Glasgow Foundry Boys ' Religious Society . |
| 21 | Not exactly the sort of thought you wanted to pass on to the police at a time when two boys ' bodies had been found . |
| 22 | Other boys ' mothers had rough hands and plain faces and knew nothing except cleaning and cooking . |
| 23 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |