Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 's [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda Wolfe is , apart from being a trained children 's nurse and midwife , a mother of three young children and two older step-children . |
| 2 | During the toddler period some children 's awareness and motivation outstrips their co-ordination and so anger at not being able to get the doll 's arm into the jumper or the man into the fire engine can suddenly cause the child to scream in frustration and throw the toy across the room . |
| 3 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 4 | Shaila : Until very recently I worked with Outwrite women 's newspaper and for those of you who do n't know it , it was a monthly internationalist feminist newspaper which published for about 7 years . |
| 5 | Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport . |
| 6 | Along with four other intellectuals , including Regis Debray , feminist writer Elisabeth Badinter signed an open letter to Mr Jospin , saying that the scarf is a symbol of Muslim women 's oppression and warning him not to capitulate . |
| 7 | It became a part of the official women 's movement and was able to push for the rights of the professional woman artist . |
| 8 | Feminist therapists analyse the complex emotional states associated with individual women 's family and other social experiences ( e.g. Eichenbaum and Orbach 1982 , Orbach and Eichenbaum 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Fran Bennett 's article on ‘ The State , Welfare and Women 's Dependence ’ ( Bennett , 1983 ) gives an excellent account of the different strands within the contemporary women 's movement and their views about the appropriate source of an income for women . |
| 10 | Of these there were the International Federation of Stewards , Seamen and Firemen ( 1890- ? ) , the National Independent Seamen 's and Firemen 's Association in Liverpool ( 1892–1895 ) , the National Seamen 's Protection and Benefit Society of Great Britain and Ireland in Cardiff ( 1903–1905 ) and the National Boarding Masters ' and Seamen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1904–1907 ) . |
| 11 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 12 | For general information , contact The National Children 's Play and Recreation Unit on 071–383 5455 . |
| 13 | Now Co-Director of the National Children 's Play and Recreation Unit ; still active as a Senior Medau Trainer and Executive Committee member . |
| 14 | Without white men 's capital and white men 's skills the place can not function . |
| 15 | As chairperson of the National Women 's Council and of the co-ordinating scientific bodies , Elena Ceauşescu was the dominant organizer of the regime 's pro-natalist policies . |
| 16 | The announcement that Mr Hunt , as current Employment Secretary , would take over responsibility for women 's affairs was made at last week 's Tory Women 's Conference and sparked outrage from Labour MPs and women 's lobby groups . |
| 17 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 18 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 19 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 20 | Duncan searched the rooms , but found only some soiled children 's clothing and their excreta . |
| 21 | It will also focus on the role of social class , gender and ethnic background in determining children 's understanding and use of the medium . |
| 22 | You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice . |
| 23 | Soviet families are also of special interest in foreshadowing major western trends : for example , low birth rates , and very high rates of married women 's work and divorce . |
| 24 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 25 | Such courses , especially those for women only , increased women 's confidence and introduced them to new ways of interpreting their experience . |
| 26 | This points to the existence of a distinctive women 's politics and culture prior to the entry of the term feminism into linguistic usage . |
| 27 | Right , well perhaps I , perhaps people could as actually come and speak to me afterwards , if they , if they think they could help at all , that 's International Women 's Day and all the local organisations have been asked to take part |
| 28 | Well who needs it and why is it necessary to have an international women 's day and has there been any progress in the women 's movement . |
| 29 | Recent feminist historians have insisted that the repeal struggle needs to be seen not just as one of the single-issue campaigns which characterized the reform politics of radical liberalism , but as a landmark in the history of the nineteenth-century women 's movement and in the development of a feminist politics of sexuality . |
| 30 | Wagner can count some worthwhile benchmarks — from the Caring in Homes initiative to the forthcoming Children 's Charter and one or two legislative achievements — but it can also be justly proud of its part in seeing that residential care is on the political agenda , no longer a Cinderella service . |