Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A piece of magic from Collins settled the issue when he won a tackle and looped over a high pass for Chris Higgs to race clear for the Police 's fourth try . |
| 2 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 3 | I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men . |
| 4 | This incident seems to epitomise what is believed to have gone wrong with the Children 's Hearing system in Orkney . |
| 5 | Other contributors who are working within this tradition ( Brenda Almond , Morwenna Griffiths , Mary Midgley and Anne Seller ) also consider in what ways central philosophical issues might look different from a women 's ( or feminist ) points of view . |
| 6 | URGENT — NDO would like to hear from any teacher interested in a men 's class in London SW1 ( evening ) or a handicapped children 's class at Dartford . |
| 7 | In 1873 she met Barbara Bodichon [ q.v. ] , a wealthy woman interested in the women 's suffrage movement , and one of the founders of Girton College , Cambridge , who remained her lifelong friend and benefactress . |
| 8 | I chatted the one grandmother , who hard hardly seen her grandson who has made friends with another eight year old in the children 's club . |
| 9 | THE end may be in sight for the annual Territorial Championship , whose post-Christmas slot is the least acceptable in the women 's fixture list . |
| 10 | THE end may be in sight for the annual Territorial Championship , whose post-Christmas slot is the least acceptable in the women 's fixture list . |
| 11 | But the Reverend was fiercely repressive of the children 's spirit , the food was very poor and the girls were often starved and cold . |
| 12 | This cake mixture is perfect for the children 's cakes in this book , as it is light and moist yet firm enough to handle and cut into different shapes . |
| 13 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 14 | Animal welfare workers say they 're delighted with the judges 's decision . |
| 15 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 16 | Mr Evans and his union were crucial to the men 's strategy . |
| 17 | She was delighted by the children 's generosity . |
| 18 | but erm , had a little with the children 's Christmas presents |
| 19 | Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides . |
| 20 | Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence . |
| 21 | I accept that it was not mandatory upon the judge to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , but he knew in general terms from the evidence before him that the mother had maintained an active interest in the children and that she was unhappy about the children 's placement with the foster mother . |
| 22 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
| 23 | Through them she met Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v. ] and her daughters , and became involved in the women 's suffrage movement . |
| 24 | Members of the Advisory Committee are drawn deliberately not only from those who have experience of the system , for example , former panel members , but also from people who have not previously been involved in the Children 's Hearing system at all . |
| 25 | Mr M was very impressed by the Children 's Panel system that , he said , seemed to take so much time and trouble to listen to , and about , the children . |
| 26 | After last month 's lunch , many pensioners had written to him because they were impressed by the children 's confidence and manners . |
| 27 | One school was so impressed by the children 's positive reactions that they completely revamped the science work in the first two years to include more social and human applications of science . |
| 28 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 29 | They always had to be constrained in public , Sundays or not ; and if anything they were less so on Sunday , when sometimes their clothes were pretty , and at least were seldom black , navy blue or grey as the men 's were invariably … . |
| 30 | Headline hitting cases such as those of Maria Colwell and Jasmine Beckford , for example , led to in-depth investigations into the action of the social workers and other professionals responsible for the children 's welfare , and also alerted both professionals and society in general to the existence of child abuse on a wider scale than hitherto acknowledged . |