Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 2 | The children thoroughly enjoyed the panto which also starred the ; who are currently appearing on Children 's BBC in Chucklevision . |
| 3 | The research project will focus on children 's comprehension of pretence . |
| 4 | Moreover , children are attracted to telephones which ‘ demand ’ to be picked up and spoken into , and the prohibitions which adults usually place on children 's use of these instruments serves only to enhance their attractiveness . |
| 5 | So there is also a recognition of values in determining the ethos of a school , and of the very powerful effect that has on children 's achievement . ’ |
| 6 | It is written on children 's notebooks and chanted by their youth groups . |
| 7 | They got as far as ‘ I 'm a Forrester , I score for Leeds , I hate Man U and I hate Chel-sea ’ , plus the line ‘ I put on women 's clothing , like Eric Cantona ’ . |
| 8 | Adult education , unencumbered by the constraints of certification and examination , has been a popular breeding-ground for courses which focus on women 's cultural and political ideas and activities . |
| 9 | Focus on children 's books |
| 10 | It is easier to judge the impression which the Black Death made on men 's minds , for this is reflected in the chroniclers ' writings , than to measure the scale of its ravages . |
| 11 | Much work has been done on children 's understanding of how a person 's beliefs determine that person 's actions , but less is known about their conception of the role of motivation in action . |
| 12 | Shifting the dramatic frame enables us to use the dramatic fictions that are shown on children 's television as starting points for drama . |
| 13 | We looked at European history and traced the effects which the growth of specialised institutions of government and administration have had on women 's potential for political influence . |
| 14 | I 'm interested in the role of women all over the world , particularly in terms of what effect development strategies have had on women 's position , not merely in India but in other parts of the world as well , because I feel that there are a lot of common experiences which impinge on the problem as it relates to India . |
| 15 | Abandoning caution , she got up and turned on Barbs 's tape machine . |
| 16 | He shows , without condescension , that Sylvia is inherently decent for all that her culture is founded on women 's magazines and television serials . |
| 17 | In addition , the women 's movement has tended to focus on women 's health issues , while men 's are seldom discussed publicly . ’ |
| 18 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 19 | Both women stressed the idea of service , which Butler saw as an outgrowth of women 's role in the home , while neither envisaged impinging on men 's work . |
| 20 | Though I would n't bet on women 's whole-hearted support for their pathetic sister . |
| 21 | By 1971 this J-shaped curve was long established ( table 4.10 ) , with fertility lowest in social class IIIN and still highest in social class V. As might be expected , fertility is related to social class based on women 's own occupation in more linear fashion . |
| 22 | But the phenomena of women breadwinners is in no way equivalent to the experience of the male breadwinners — the new breadwinners are poorer , the legacy of a wage system based on women 's economic dependence . |
| 23 | Certain aspects of centres ' work may have been less successful than others ( there was a considerable and unproductive stress on making inefficient ‘ cheap ’ material such as bead microscopes ) and some centres like Nsukka , Nairobi , Domasi and Njala were more active than others but the overall record in terms of creation of exciting relevant material based on children 's experience is indeed impressive . |
| 24 | It shows that domestic violence , sexual harassment , rape , incest and sexual assault are commonplace manifestations of a dynamic based on men 's power and women 's subordination . |
| 25 | The employment opportunities available are also likely to be relevant , and will depend on women 's previous work experience and qualifications , local labour market conditions and employers ' attitudes to older women as employees . |
| 26 | First , they do not depend on children 's literacy or oracy skills . |
| 27 | When workers ' minds are focused on children 's emotional well-being it is all too easy to overlook the basics of good child care . |
| 28 | It is true to say there is n't the same direct relation between child numbers and spending on children 's services that you get in education . |
| 29 | Attention on fashion for most of the public was concentrated on women 's clothes , with mini-skirts and boots emphasising the rapid change in attitudes . |
| 30 | Since 1985 , she has concentrated on children 's book illustrations . |