Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] 's [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could think of no harmless reason for Nails 's strange trespass . |
| 2 | Their violently anticlerical tone , occasionally stooping to scurrilous abuse , provoked sharp replies from churchmen , some of whom themselves descended to the level of personal insults , mostly on the score of Cocks 's diminutive size and renowned eccentricity . |
| 3 | Police seized 3,000 pieces of evidence during their raid on the foundry , placed under the name of Hains 's former wife Solange Jonkheere , who was also charged . |
| 4 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 5 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 6 | Also on show at the gallery throughout March is the work of Norman Stuart Clark , one of Britains 's foremost glass blowers . |
| 7 | Riot police were despatched early in August to the Tuva ASSR ( part of the Russian Federation , beside the Mongolian border ) to prevent clashes between native Tuvans and Russians who constituted over one-third of Tuva 's 300,000 population . |
| 8 | In reporting EDS-GFI 's 1992 revenues of $342m , 25% of EDS 's European business of $1,370m , Tordjman indicated the company is particularly interested in acquiring telecommunications expertise . |
| 9 | And although the arrangements made at Clovis 's death certainly set a precedent , it did not ensure the succession of all Merovingian males , despite Gregory of Tours 's famous dictum that " all boys born of kings are called king 's sons " . |
| 10 | In particular , the project investigates the importance of children 's increasing awareness that they do or do not know the precise reference of particular words . |
| 11 | The overall objective of this research is to develop a profile of children 's early vocabulary development based upon both comprehension and production data . |
| 12 | The question of children 's spiritual development and formation has previously been discussed in this Report , and many former girl and boy choristers testify to the benefits , spiritual as well as musical , of belonging to a good choir . |
| 13 | The development of children 's spoken language in the English curriculum is concerned with the relations between language , speaker and listener . |
| 14 | To the extent that transformational rules have been challenged as accurate accounts of children 's emerging knowledge of the rules for organising language structures ( see Chapter 1 ) , the LAD is suspect . |
| 15 | Wales notes that great care is needed in making claims about the universality of the forms of children 's pictorial representation . |
| 16 | Differences in children 's health , behaviour and attainment at 10 years associated with different maternal employment histories will be examined after taking account of children 's initial behaviour and cognitive ability at 5 years , maternal depression and attitudes and other relevant socio-economic factors . |
| 17 | Unlike recent ‘ innatist ’ views of children 's intellectual development , Campbell and Olson 's framework represents cognitive development as ‘ the accretion and expansion of representational powers ’ . |
| 18 | On the other hand , studies of children 's spontaneous production have revealed that most of the causal sentences which children produce refer to intentions ( Hood , 1977 ; McCabe and Peterson , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 20 | Drama is of crucial importance as a learning medium , for example , in promoting collaborative talk , extending language skills and awareness of language in use , in assisting the development of voice skills in relation to reading aloud , and in extending both the form and the content of children 's own writing . |
| 21 | It has shown the importance of children 's previous experience of exploratory discussion and reasoned argument . |
| 22 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
| 23 | This is not just a matter of children 's physical dependence ; it concerns the emotional constitution of human beings generally . |
| 24 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 25 | Some have tended to concentrate on the problem of men 's systematic violence towards women and on the power relations involved in contemporary forms of heterosexuality . |
| 26 | The data given in figure 10.2 can be re-expressed in terms of the ratio of men 's hourly pay to women 's , which fell in the mid-1970s from the traditional level , around 1.67 , to 1.45 in 1977 and after . |
| 27 | The New Earnings Survey shows that in 1984 women earned only 74 per cent of men 's hourly rate , and only 66 per cent of men 's gross weekly earnings . |
| 28 | In 1975 , women earned 72 per cent of men 's hourly rate , and 62 per cent of men 's gross weekly earnings . |
| 29 | This represents an improvement over the situation a few years earlier , since in 1970 women earned only 63 per cent of men 's hourly rate , and only 55 per cent of men 's gross weekly pay . |
| 30 | She seemed quite unfazed by Billingsley 's impertinent question whether we slept together , doubtless translating the policeman 's particular curiosity as a general confirmation of men 's innate tackiness . |