Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change for Children 's Books of the Year |
| 2 | Cameras appear from women 's purses , as do pens and scraps of paper . |
| 3 | The 28-year-old has made his first shift from children 's telly with the Friday evening showbiz slot ‘ Entertainment Express ’ where he works alongside Selina Scott — and he is loving it . |
| 4 | M LITT IN WOMEN 'S STUDIES |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 1967 ) and Wannemacher and Ryan ( 1978 ) , offer further support for children 's observance of Contrast in their acquisition of more and less . |
| 7 | The third example is the view that it is good primary practice to adopt a predominantly ‘ enquiry ’ or ‘ exploratory ’ mode of teacher-pupil interaction and to couple this with plenty of encouragement and support for children 's responses . |
| 8 | ( Yet again it must be said — an argument which does not directly arise out of a golden thread approach but which is pertinent here — the two passages in the new testament which speak of women 's subordination both rely on the Genesis account of creation and fall , an account no longer valid in a post-Darwinian age . ) |
| 9 | New powers to lock up children overnight may reflect the concern of Home Office ministers about crimes committed by some young people in care when they persistently abscond from children 's homes . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Focus on children 's books |
| 13 | Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated . |
| 14 | The caravan is usually staffed by two officers who can provide all kinds of information on crime prevention in the home and on the street such as the new booklet ‘ Talking Sense , A Guide To Women 's Safety ’ . |
| 15 | The clear , lively illustrations in full colour add to children 's motivation . |
| 16 | The first two special projects cater for women 's needs . |
| 17 | Alert for children 's eyes to close and sleep |
| 18 | ‘ Know about women 's fashions , do you ? ’ she teased . |
| 19 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 20 | We 'd be on very dangerous ground … to use words like ‘ alien ’ or even draw to children 's attention that our society is a racial mix . |
| 21 | Large rapper Chubb Rock is here , and so is an unidentifiable American HM band who talk about women 's bums all the time . |
| 22 | From Jespersen to Lakoff to the feminist in the discussion group , people who talk about women 's language have a regrettable propensity to overlook this problem . |
| 23 | In our discussion groups , we talk about women 's double exploitation and a bit about the political history of El Salvador and the revolutionary organizations . |
| 24 | I suppose you talk about men 's willies and all that sort of thing ? |
| 25 | Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class . |
| 26 | I loathe men who trifle with women 's affections . |
| 27 | They present short narratives of women 's lives , and claim them for feminist therapy on the grounds that they emerge from women 's personal experience . |
| 28 | In Europe , advisory groups which concentrate on women 's issues have been set up . |
| 29 | Earlier analyses of retirement concentrate on men 's experiences , reflecting the view that both employment and the lack of it are central to men 's lives . |
| 30 | I do n't understand why dog 's do that , they never go for men 's crotches do they ? |