Example sentences of "on the [noun pl] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our album opened doors for us all over the world , ’ he says , ‘ and another major factor in our success was that one of the songs on it , ‘ Wall Of Tears ’ , was included on the Women 's Heart C.D. which has already sold over 200,000 copies in Ireland alone . |
| 2 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |
| 3 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 4 | ‘ This could be my chance to beat her and take the biggest money prize on the women 's circuit , ’ said Jackman . |
| 5 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 6 | However , Croft , who has slimmed down considerably since her last days on the women 's tour , showed greater physical and mental stamina to take the match after more than two hours of sometimes unendurable tennis . |
| 7 | At one time each village had its own traditional dress , and it was possible to see the influences of different regions of mainland Portugal , particularly the Minho district , on the women 's clothing . |
| 8 | Lori McNeil , the lowest ranked player in the field , pulled off a 7–6 ( 7–1 ) , 6–4 first round victory in the Virginia Slims Championships for her biggest triumph in nine years on the women 's tennis circuit . |
| 9 | Some might say it presents an idealistic picture of family life ; others that it is a reactionary attempt to turn the clock back on the women 's movement ; yet others might argue that she has gone beyond the available evidence in concluding , or at least implying , that delinquency might result from early day-care experiences . |
| 10 | Half jokingly , Clare assumed the role of teacher-guide , and fed Carolyn a steady supply of reading material on the Women 's Movement , ranging from Spare Rib magazine to the lives of suffragettes ; from The Female Eunuch to pamphlets on Consciousness Raising . |
| 11 | There may , for example , be plans to launch a new pocket or handbag version of one of the company 's torches ; if it is sufficiently different from anything else on the market this could form the basis for an onslaught on the women 's interest press . |
| 12 | The suit was filed in New York by human rights groups on the women 's behalf . |
| 13 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 14 | Now , with the exception of Lorenzi , who has a young daughter to think about , they can all play full-time in the States — or even , were it to materialise , on the women 's world tour McCormack has long had at the back of his mind . |
| 15 | On the women 's front , Scottish Universities received the ideal boost for their defence of the British Universities title in Northern Ireland at the end of next month by retaining the Celtic Students Trophy at Stepps yesterday . |
| 16 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
| 17 | Tiguary and his people kept an eye on the Englishmen 's building work ; they watched their planting and their forest clearance with mounting apprehension . |
| 18 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 19 | Other business in these 1909 Minutes amusingly includes painting ‘ Gentlemen 's Lavatory ’ on the men 's door and ‘ Ladies Only ’ on theirs ! |
| 20 | We 're one up on the men 's team . |
| 21 | If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m . |
| 22 | It looks very much as though this option was ruled out by entrenched feeling on the men 's side and inadequate appreciation of their position by the women . |
| 23 | This view was not widely held , nor does it accord with the observational data on the men 's practice while doing beat duty . |
| 24 | The complaint concerns the ‘ dangerous nature of the gate on the children 's playground in Scorton . |
| 25 | A special edition of With Great Pleasure invites locally-born writer Wally K Daly , currently working on the children 's TV drama series Byker Grove , with his own selection of poetry and prose , on Wednesday at Stockton Parish Church . |
| 26 | They also produced ‘ LORNA DOONE ’ with Clive Owen , and are now working on a series based on the children 's classic ‘ THE BORROWERS ’ and a major drama series adapted from Armistead Maupin 's cult novels ‘ TALES OF THE CITY ’ . |
| 27 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 28 | Nahum was content to let his wife do the local visiting , and reports on the children 's welfare came regularly from the inspector , so there was little required of him in Chertsey . |
| 29 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
| 30 | In reporting on the children 's work he noted this : If any society wanted to perpetuate notions of female fickleness and the importance of accepting the proprietorial bias of moral authority , then here is a tale for the purpose . |