Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1985 study reports no examples of parents teaching their children at home under the guidance of a teacher ; no activity packs for use at the time of the children 's first admission to school ; no parents helping in the classroom with music , and no home-school liaison assistants or secondary/junior/infant liaison teachers . |
| 2 | Our ambivalence toward television , the ambiguity apparent in children 's actual access to ‘ adult ’ programmes and ( in some cases ) unlimited viewing , are symptomatic of our dependence on the machine . |
| 3 | Children 's enthusiastic response to the irresistible Sesame Street Muppets , combined with the sound methodological principles behind the series , make this flexible and comprehensive course a pleasure to teach . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A dilution of women 's traditional commitment to the housewife role is , then , rare even in those families where there is symmetry between husband and wife on the paid job dimension . |
| 6 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |
| 7 | In circumstances in which women 's primary commitment to men can no longer be guaranteed , the attack on ‘ extremists ’ , and especially lesbians , within the women 's movement has increased . |
| 8 | The evidence on housing interiors given by the Women 's Labour League to the Tudor Walters Committee on Housing Design at the end of the War proved influential , although housing policy generally was formulated more from a fear of unrest by working class men than with the needs of working class women in mind . |
| 9 | Women 's limited access to employers ' pension benefits are directly related to the traditional domestic division of labour which assigns the ‘ breadwinner ’ role to men , principally husbands , and the major responsibility for the unpaid work of the home ( especially child care ) to women . |
| 10 | There are also indications from other sources that women 's basic allegiance to the housewife role is not class-dependent . |
| 11 | The teaching association therefore represents one of the most vocal and important expressions of professional women 's organized opposition to the regime . |
| 12 | Taking data on all full-time manual workers , figure 10.2 shows that the ratio of women 's hourly pay to men 's suddenly rose in the mid-1970s from the level it seems to have previously held over recorded history , 60 per cent , to over 70 per cent in 1977 , a level more or less maintained subsequently . |
| 13 | A major part of this enterprise stressed the importance of female sexuality and women 's valid right to sexual pleasure that is , in relationships with men . |
| 14 | The magazine 's message then was the same as it is today : that ‘ women hold up half the sky and a great deal more besides ’ and that development will at best hobble along until women 's disproportionate contribution to the work , wealth and well-being of their communities is both recognized and rewarded . |