Example sentences of "[prep] girls ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls . |
| 2 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 3 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 4 | She suggests a synthesis between the two approaches which looks at the diversity of girls ' educational experiences , and the ways in which schoolchildren challenge class and gender controls . |
| 5 | Feminists are also starting to investigate specific characteristics of younger and older female subjects , like girls ' strong and prolonged cross-sex identification , and older women 's childcare skills . |
| 6 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 7 | There are a number of possible explanations for girls ' superior primary school performance . |
| 8 | Schemes such as Girls Into Science and Technology ( GIST ) and Women Into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) were devised as ‘ remedies ’ to girls ' early socialization . |
| 9 | I would put more emphasis on the role of schools and teachers in dissuading girls from science , and less on girls ' internal states . |
| 10 | In particular , attention is focused on girls ' differential engagement with , and performance in , certain scientific and technical subjects ( see , for example , The Further Education Unit , 1985b ; The Schools Council Project on Reducing Sex Differentiation in Schools , 1983 ; Brent LEA , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Amongst liberals , there has been a tendency to believe that remedying the gender imbalances in these books might have a positive influence on girls ' educational achievement . |