Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] to [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her presence and interest doubtless affect the children 's attention to similarity and difference . |
| 4 | Results were related to two theoretical issues : children 's implicit theory of teaching and children 's sensitivity to misunderstanding . |
| 5 | ‘ Exposure to human suffering , bloodshed and cruelty may , in the long germ , stunt children 's sensitivity to violence inflicted on others in real life . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Exposure to human suffering , bloodshed and cruelty may , in the long germ , stunt children 's sensitivity to violence inflicted on others in real life . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The place of talk is equally important in children 's introduction to mathematics . |
| 9 | Men 's response to pregnancy is as complex and varied as women 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Secondly , it will comment on working-age women 's access to membership of employers ' pension schemes and the extent to which it appears that their risk of poverty in retirement may have lessened , both by increased access in their own right and through improved provision for widows . |
| 19 | A prevailing assumption of this society , which has profound consequences for women 's access to housing , is that a woman and her children will be supported financially by her husband . |
| 20 | The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design . |
| 21 | It inhibits women 's access to training and good employment . ’ |
| 22 | Projects directed at cooling the anger of the male unemployed or blacks in inner city areas are likely to be more successful than schemes seeking to increase women 's access to employment or educational opportunities . |
| 23 | These interviews concentrate on the impact of new agricultural inputs on women 's work , changes in the arrangement of marriages ( including dowry payments ) and differences in women 's access to health care particularly in relation to pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 24 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 25 | The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation . |