Example sentences of "[prep] working [noun] 's " in BNC.

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1 The WLL gave priority to the new Labour Party 's Right to Work Bill , introduced into the House of Commons every year between 1906 and 1908 , which they believed would provide a charter of the ‘ Right to Leisure and Home Comfort ’ for working men 's wives .
2 This introduction to the harshness of working women 's lives was formative and determined her choice of career .
3 The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ .
4 It was how I 'd always imagined showbiz would be — far removed from the stark reality of Working Men 's Clubs .
5 The first derived from the interest of the Christian Socialists in the institution of Working Men 's Associations for Co-operative Production .
6 A much-respected retired Communist deputy in south Yorkshire summarised the pillars of working men 's politics : " Probably most were anti-boss though not necessarily anti-system . "
7 Indeed the Federation of Working Men 's Clubs set up by Oxford House directly assisted the young Oxford missionary in developing the " knack of mingling on terms of personal equality with men , while yet by some je ne sais quoi in himself " , preserving " their freely accorded social homage " .
8 I am convinced that simple answers , in working man 's English and full of hard facts ( often lacking in your replies ) , would alleviate the impression many of us hold that you have become a master in the art of waffling .
9 It seems likely , from the small amount of information available , that the press was successful in fixing in working men 's minds the idea that contraception was a highly individualistic act prompted by self-interest .
10 Historians have commented on working women 's fatalism in respect to childbirth and the material conditions of their lives .
11 Linda , Yorkshire and North Derbyshire region seconding motion two six nine on Working Women 's Safety .
12 As far as ho erm the H R T is erm here we go you see , this is post-natal illness this is right , we need one on that as well , but what we need to know , and what we need to be aware of , is that the discussion has to be actually put out through the members in the same sort of way as Ken and Peggy have done in the erm Midland and East Coast region and also on Working Women 's Safety , it needs to be taken on board that we are absolutely fed up , sick to death and absolutely running out of patience at having to hammer home this thing about equality .
13 ‘ All officials , without exception elected and subject to recall at any time , their salaries reduced to working men 's wages — these simple and self-evident democratic measures , which , completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of peasants , at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism ’ ( pp. 38–9 ) .
14 He 'll be back and he might be back at working men 's prices .
15 That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs .
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