Example sentences of "[art] boys [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again she heard the boys ' warm approving voices , voices that left her outside the heat of that dangerous moment . |
| 2 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 3 | The boys ' mean score was 57 per cent and the girls ' 51 per cent . |
| 4 | Specifically , The Mary Whitehouse Experience is an experience in wankers and turds , which are the boys ' two favourite words . |
| 5 | Right let's hear the boys ' two words then . |
| 6 | He won the junior men 's 200m freestyle , 200m and 400m individual medley and Robin Francis ( York ) won the boys ' 10 years 50m breaststroke . |
| 7 | It 's still a child 's guide to sexism : children may be unconvinced , especially by the boys ' latent gallantry ( ‘ They 'd kick her , I mean him ’ ) , and adults may find the story a touch contrived , but it 's a good read . |
| 8 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 9 | Most of the boys ' mental age is about eleven . |
| 10 | They er I mean in , in Handsworth right , on this bottom corridor , the boys ' bottom corridor , it is in such a bad way you know like they keep erm like putting their fists through windows and things like that , and the amount of repairs and fining . |
| 11 | In 1957 a girls ' secondary modern was opened , sharing a large site but not much else either with the boys ' secondary modern or ( still less ) with the Grammar School . |
| 12 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 13 | The early part of the decade had seen the festival succumb entirely to the boys ' own heavy metal hackery that at that point ruled the roost in certain quarters , most significantly the mind of Jack Barrie , Marquee General Manager and responsible for booking the bands . |
| 14 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 15 | and saw the boys ' wet heads glittering , |
| 16 | Which brings us to the Powerhaus , and the Boys ' latest Sinatra-style comeback . |
| 17 | Which brings us to the Powerhaus , and the Boys ' latest Sinatra-style comeback . |
| 18 | The ‘ Coach Fund ’ was heavily subscribed ; Crawford had taken on an extensive schedule which saw him coaching his protégés ( ‘ Crawford 's Colts ’ ) four evenings a week at Carisbrook , and coaching at the Boys ' High School twice a week . |
| 19 | The girls took advantage of the boys ' sudden inability to catch or shoot and before long the game was over and the girls won 12–8 . |
| 20 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the school aped the traditions of the boys ' public schools , encouraging competitiveness and aggressiveness within a rigidly hierarchical structure which depended on eccentric but unbreakable rules . |
| 22 | Both SMP [ originating in the boys ' public schools ] and MME [ originating in state secondary schools ] produced proposals for the redefinition of school mathematics that were clearly orientated to the demands of various powerful , i.e. resource-controlling , extra-school groups . |
| 23 | The boys ' physical welfare was by no means neglected : the Headmaster was pleased to accept " what is called , I believe , a wrestling bar , i.e. a horizontal bar with suitable uprights " for the playground from Mr. Emery of Stepping Hill . |
| 24 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |
| 25 | The boys ' physical presence was rendered huge by the small room . |
| 26 | In comparison , the other visits a world , a boys ' preparatory school in a Georgian house full of earnest people listening to lectures on ‘ the novel ’ , that might be thought almost civilized . |
| 27 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 28 | During this time he taught Irish extensively and in 1908 founded St Enda 's , a boys ' bilingual secondary school . |
| 29 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
| 30 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |