Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 2 | This recommended the creation of a specialist children 's service to replace the existing provision , which was fragmented among various departments , including public assistance . |
| 3 | ‘ I was a loyal trooper in the children 's crusade to recover the lost citadel of British economic power . ’ |
| 4 | The Children 's Society fears the new guidance could lead to ‘ pin-down ’ type regimes . |
| 5 | This record-breaking year , which has seen the men 's team collect the national championship silver medal and now prove themselves to be the best club team in the North augurs well for the future of the Darlington club . |
| 6 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 7 | Much of the women 's art takes the given map and redrafts it . |
| 8 | Rowntree 's moving account of rural poverty complemented Bowley 's careful statistics , as did several similar painstaking , unsensational accounts of poverty in this period , all remarkably alike in the details of hardship they recounted. from 1909 to 1913 the Fabian Women 's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families in Lambeth , published as Round About a Pound a Week , written by Maud Pember Reeves 's in 1907 At the Works by Lady Florence Bell surveyed the lives and living standards of the people of Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |