Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience may accept that the war is being fought over an ignoble cause , but Thersites 's response to existence is too much to take . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for Champneys 's move to Holland with his apprentice may have been his bankruptcy in 1766 . |
| 3 | YOUR story about the seriously ill children 's trip to Disney World was really touching . |
| 4 | A dozen families were consequently contacted by telephone , and asked to provide information about their family life ; self-identified concerns ; parent 's seizure type and frequency ; the child or children 's response to seizures and the relationship of partners . |
| 5 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 6 | Prize for the Best First Novel went to James Hamilton-Paterson for Gerontius ( Macmillan , £12.95 ) ; and for the Best Children 's Novel to Hugh Scott for Why Weeps the Brogan ? |
| 7 | You ca n't change them — you ca n't force a man to love you when he does n't , ca n't hold children 's progress to adulthood back . |
| 8 | Her presence and interest doubtless affect the children 's attention to similarity and difference . |
| 9 | Results were related to two theoretical issues : children 's implicit theory of teaching and children 's sensitivity to misunderstanding . |
| 10 | ‘ Exposure to human suffering , bloodshed and cruelty may , in the long germ , stunt children 's sensitivity to violence inflicted on others in real life . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Exposure to human suffering , bloodshed and cruelty may , in the long germ , stunt children 's sensitivity to violence inflicted on others in real life . ’ |
| 12 | It 's possible to use classroom time for discussions and all the out of role preparatory work that greatly strengthens the children 's commitment to drama . |
| 13 | The place of talk is equally important in children 's introduction to mathematics . |
| 14 | Men 's response to pregnancy is as complex and varied as women 's . |
| 15 | The first four commands concern men 's relationship to God , the remaining six their relationship to one another . |
| 16 | On the one hand we can cite the experiments of social psychologists such as Malamuth , who state that an empirical correlation can be established between men 's exposure to pornography and propensity to rape . |
| 17 | He repeated that he preferred men 's company to women 's . |
| 18 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 19 | It looks at women 's contribution to family income , and examines pensioner 's incomes , low income families , the costs of children , at how families divide their income , and at patterns of family spending . |
| 20 | Topics covered during the seminar include ‘ An Analysis of Books on Women 's Issues ’ ; ‘ Women 's Contribution to Christian Literature ’ ; ‘ Women in the Media — a Global Perspective ’ and ‘ Women 's Contribution to Children 's Literature ’ . |
| 21 | Bertha Johnson 's conservatism , shown equally by her Unionist politics , her lifelong attachment to the flowing Liberty gowns fashionable in her youth , and her reluctance to see chaperonage rules relaxed , led her to resist the assimilation of women 's education to patterns developed for men . |
| 22 | The complicated nature of women 's response to doctors ' views about their role also characterised the way in which women dealt with the whole area of sexual difference and its implications for their position in terms of both the separation of spheres and of female dependency within the private sphere of home and family . |
| 23 | Women 's response to poverty and unemployment remains an enigma , and whilst the inequality which leads to civil war between men on the streets is called a riot , the battles at home between unequals , in which the less powerful are also the losers , is dismissed as ‘ domestic violence ’ . |
| 24 | Like Orwell , women 's relationship to miners starts from the basis of exclusion and mystery , but women live with the drama and danger of the pits , they live their solidarity with the pitmen . |
| 25 | The research aims to uncover and examine Irish women 's migration to Britain in the post-War period . |
| 26 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 27 | In most of the ‘ new ’ universities , fine art courses will shortly become part of a modular system which , in name at least , will enable students to draw on a much wider range of studies from women 's writing to gender and psychology . |
| 28 | Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 . |
| 29 | Measures to improve women 's access to education , training and remunerative jobs need to be complemented by measures to give families more choice about the management of their unpaid responsibilities . |
| 30 | Clearly , then , women 's access to home ownership is often through association with a male breadwinner , a fact which further reinforces women 's economic dependence on a male partner . |