Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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1 | The idea that straight people ’ benefitted ’ from lesbian and gay oppression was raised , also the need for a lifting of oppressive sexuality , and the question of how lesbian oppression differed from women 's oppression . |
2 | The text is usually artificial and detached from children 's experience of spoken language , since readability criteria are based on frequent repetition of words , short sentences , and a very limited vocabulary . |
3 | In the video ‘ Perfect X ’ K Dieroff balances precariously between ideals of beauty and self-mutilation as she takes a knife to her nose accompanied by a barrage of adjectives distilled from women 's magazines . |
4 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
5 | Let me be desolate and hidden from men 's eyes … ’ |
6 | In this sense , all the themes discussed so far contain ‘ women 's issues ’ and have to be treated from women 's perspectives to arrive at true and complete reality . |
7 | The idea behind such schemes is derived from children 's fostering schemes and although they suit a small minority of less disabled former patients , the hosts normally need a great deal of regular help and support from professionals for the scheme to succeed and there must also be close monitoring and supervision of the quality of care provided . |
8 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
9 | I had been aware on visits of the changes she had brought into the house , in the food which was more elaborate , recipes culled from women 's magazines , the odd touches about the place , the fact that the bowl full of bulbs was placed on a mat , there were extra arm covers on the chairs , a lace cloth on the chest of drawers in my room , everything had to be protected . |
10 | Now her mother , a Labour councillor , wants all dogs banned from children 's playgrounds . |