Example sentences of "girls [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or no , she thought , no — for that last , golden day at the girls ' preparatory school , which had coincided with her fifty-first birthday , that had been a joy such as she had never dared to hope for , a once-in-a-lifetime joy . |
| 2 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 3 | In fact , it is hoped to have some of the children 's embroidery work at the next ‘ Craft , Embroidery & Fashion Show ’ to be staged by Madeira Threads , once again at Harrogate , on the 12th and 13th November , where visitors will be able to buy some of the girls ' finished articles on display . |
| 4 | In particular , attention is focused on girls ' differential engagement with , and performance in , certain scientific and technical subjects ( see , for example , The Further Education Unit , 1985b ; The Schools Council Project on Reducing Sex Differentiation in Schools , 1983 ; Brent LEA , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | There were no aircraft or aircrew and the Met girls ' sole job was plotting charts , a new one every hour , and collecting the teleprinter reports as they came in from each of the out-stations in the Group . |
| 6 | Schemes such as Girls Into Science and Technology ( GIST ) and Women Into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) were devised as ‘ remedies ’ to girls ' early socialization . |
| 7 | The main sources for the movement as it developed between 1880 and the early 1900s , were University Settlement Houses , Public School Missions , the ‘ Independents ’ , and the motley collection of local parish clubs and others , many of which were affiliated to larger parent organizations , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , BB , YMCA , the Wesley Guild of Youth , and the Army Cadets . |
| 8 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |
| 9 | Some organizations laid primary stress on preventive work and moral re-education , especially among working-class girls : for example the Anglican-run Girls ' Friendly Society , founded in 1874 , Ellice Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls , 1876 , and the Band of Hope Mission , 1879 . |
| 10 | A Special Report of the Girls ' Friendly Society in 1879 pointed out that middle-class women tended ‘ to over regulate those women whom we would serve ’ , because they were ignorant of working-class life . |
| 11 | The notion of friendship between classes also motivated organisations such as the Girls ' Friendly Society and the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants . |
| 12 | This could have the effect of improving girls ' spatial visualisation skills — and may also , directly or indirectly , favourably affect their learning of mathematics . |
| 13 | Instructions I copied out from a girls ' annual for 1954 . |
| 14 | I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by . |
| 15 | Feminists are also starting to investigate specific characteristics of younger and older female subjects , like girls ' strong and prolonged cross-sex identification , and older women 's childcare skills . |
| 16 | In the course of a remarkable year , Mhairi , who played off plus-two , won both the British and Belgian Girls ' Championships , the Scottish Girls ' Closed Championship and the Helen Holm Trophy . |
| 17 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 18 | I would put more emphasis on the role of schools and teachers in dissuading girls from science , and less on girls ' internal states . |
| 19 | She was to have been among those entrusted with the secret of the girls ' switched identities . |
| 20 | Only a girls ' private conversation . |
| 21 | Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls . |
| 22 | The girls ' long hair flowing over tight turtle-neck sweaters , eyes darkened against pale skin . |
| 23 | This mass exodus is at least partly explained by the fact that St-Nom-La-Breteche is the course which will host the Girls ' European Junior Team championships from July 8–11 . |
| 24 | Distorted and offensive though it may be , riddled with he-man language though it still is , despite the information on the subject … no straightforward links can be made between biased , sexist material and girls ' alleged underachievement . |
| 25 | Sutcliffe adds ( p. 149 ) : The girls ' collective perception of usage at home was summed up in the comment " plien [ plain ] English — and sometimes Jamaican' … |
| 26 | The British girls ' decomposed bodies were found in a forest in New South Wales on September 20 . |
| 27 | GIRLS ' BIG GAIN |
| 28 | A delighted Sheelagh Cooley from Bangor Golf Club is congratulated by Irial Finan of Coca Cola and Maisie Nelson on scoring second net in the Coca Cola Girls ' Open Stroke Competition at Donaghadee Golf Club . |
| 29 | Statistics show that girls ' academic achievement is at least as good as boy's ' and that more girls than boys are entered for all levels of public examinations . |
| 30 | This confused the Girls ' uncomplicated minds as they knew the couple were still living together . |