Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are significant differences in the degree of inequality between men 's and women 's earnings within the same occupation . |
| 2 | 4 Teachers as the main providers of response to children 's writing need to become better readers . |
| 3 | The effects of care-giving on women 's paid employment and living standards , as described below , lend further weight to this argument . |
| 4 | The picture around the country for local authorities is one of reduction in children 's services . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Colonel Hawthorn told me he puts a lot of stock in men 's brasses . ’ |
| 6 | On May 28 , 1989 — International Day of Action for Women 's Health we plan to hold a seminar/meeting to consolidate our gains and set up a support network for the genital mutilation campaign . |
| 7 | She had seen that look of appraisal in men 's eyes before . |
| 8 | The APA 's Division of the Psychology of Women , and the BPS Psychology of Women Section , criticize psychology 's poor record of research on women 's psychology , and see the rectification of this as their major field of work . |
| 9 | Lots of readers have written in complaining about the lack of uniformity in children 's clothes sizes . |
| 10 | Initially , as many men have recounted , there was a great deal of prejudice about women 's military capacities : |
| 11 | The incorporation of higher levels of exercise into children 's life-style seems to be an important preventive factor for the future ( Spence 1986 ) . |
| 12 | But this will need constant nurturing if it is to develop into an appreciation of the richness of poetry , where words are ‘ alive with a plurality of meanings from their contexts , their associations and their sensory qualities ; they are alive with what Ted Hughes calls ‘ the goblin in a word'' ’ ( this quotation is from Michael Benton 's essay on ‘ The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning ’ , from the NATE book Lessons in English Teaching and Learning [ 1988 ] ) ( p. 148 ) . |
| 13 | As Michael Benton puts it in The Importance of Poetry in Children 's Learning : ‘ The development of a methodology that is based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional , narrowly-conceived ideas of comprehension and criticism is now the priority ’ ( p. 150 ) . |
| 14 | Since most Western societies are liberal in outlook , cherishing the proposition that ‘ we 're all individuals ’ , it is not surprising that the early , uncompromising identification of sexism with women 's oppression was quickly challenged and replaced with the notion of individuals being oppressed by their restrictive sex roles . |
| 15 | For the record , Rutter and I now appear to be essentially in agreement on the lead-in-petrol hazard , and in accepting that the effects of lead on children 's intelligence is real . |
| 16 | Research has also raised doubts about the role of imitation in children 's learning of language . |
| 17 | I am encouraged in my hope by the fact that insects frequently visit bright blobs of colour on women 's dresses ( and also by more systematic experiments that have been published ) . |
| 18 | Overall , the results do suggest that high taxable rates have some impact on men 's working hours and quite a lot of impact on women 's . |
| 19 | Chodorow suggests that the concentration of childcare in women 's hands brings daughters to identify symbiotically with their mothers , and to carry this interdependency and need for mutual mothering into future relationships , most especially with their own children . |
| 20 | The 20-page revised document , Guidance on Possible Forms of Control in Children 's Residential Care , describes forms of permissible restraint , including holding a child 's arm or holding the child against a wall , but says such force should never be used punitively and should reflect the needs of individual situations . |
| 21 | In the future evolution of society under women 's guidance , sex would be raised to a higher plane , where physical passion would be transmuted by the power of human love . |
| 22 | By paying particular attention to texts and images created by women in the visual arts and performance as well as in literature , the book goes some way towards making up for the lack of awareness of women 's art . |
| 23 | PNP policy was embedded in the broader framework of Authority-thinking about children 's needs , the curriculum , teaching strategies , classroom practice , school management and home-school relationships . |
| 24 | However the emergence of anti-heroes like Billy Bunter , the demotion of romance to children 's literature , are obvious consequences of the Western world 's fifteen-hundred-year long climb down the ladder of literary modes . |
| 25 | When the United Trade Union Committee ( CUTS ) was formed , they established the post of Secretary of Women 's Affairs and so we did n't continue the work of AMPES . |
| 26 | But the greatest blow to the dictates of fashion on women 's dress came with the World War I. Although Laura Ashley had , unconsciously , much in common with the nineteenth-century dress reformers it is ironic that their efforts towards change were entangled inextricably with the organized struggles for the rights of women ; women , to be taken seriously , had to dress in a more robust , sensible manner , they stated — an argument amply demonstrated by their usefulness in wartime . |
| 27 | For instance , while some men 's sexual fulfilment is doubtless restricted by the narrow fantasy of sex as power contained in much of contemporary pornography , others enjoy acting out those fantasies of domination on women 's bodies . |
| 28 | But the relation of fertility to women 's employment and income is quite different . |
| 29 | The discussion opened with the ( as it turned out ) vexed question of politics in women 's film-making . |
| 30 | From each country 's findings , Bjornsson derived a lix score which seemed to represent " normal difficulty " from a range of material including children 's books , factual prose ( written for non-specialists ) and technical literature . |