Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun pl] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historians have commented on working women 's fatalism in respect to childbirth and the material conditions of their lives . |
| 2 | Linda , Yorkshire and North Derbyshire region seconding motion two six nine on Working Women 's Safety . |
| 3 | As far as ho erm the H R T is erm here we go you see , this is post-natal illness this is right , we need one on that as well , but what we need to know , and what we need to be aware of , is that the discussion has to be actually put out through the members in the same sort of way as Ken and Peggy have done in the erm Midland and East Coast region and also on Working Women 's Safety , it needs to be taken on board that we are absolutely fed up , sick to death and absolutely running out of patience at having to hammer home this thing about equality . |
| 4 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 5 | The 16-page glossy brochure based on commercial women 's weeklies contained articles on Labour 's policy to help working and stay-at-home mums . |
| 6 | She sat over her sewing , complaining that her eyes were getting old , and the yellow wax from the candle , skewered and hung up above their heads on a thread , dripped on the backs of her hands and made marks like the stains on old women 's hands . |
| 7 | It is based on old men 's ideas , old men 's ideals and frustrations . |
| 8 | ‘ I wrote a paper on Victorian women 's imagination of space . |
| 9 | Because of its far-reaching effects on individual women 's lives , however , it is difficult not to see it as , on the contrary , a potent example of the weakness of an orthodox relativist view — a view , that is , which attempts , incoherently , to maintain the equal validity of all moral perspectives . |
| 10 | In this way it is different from the bulk colonial films which concentrate on white men 's adventures and dramas . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , during the 1900s , John Burns , the President of the Local Government Board and of the Conference on Infant Mortality , continued to call for legal restrictions on married women 's work . |
| 12 | Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families . |
| 13 | On International Women 's Day , over a hundred women arrived to protest at the male domination of the event : they wore white featureless masks inside the hall — to symbolize women 's invisibility-and , in men 's suits , held a mock inquiry outside . |
| 14 | To find out more about the group and to take part in an anti-war action on International Women 's Day in March , contact Women Against War in the Gulf , c/o 63 Upper Tollington Park , London N4 4DD . |
| 15 | She marched with them on International Women 's Day . |
| 16 | The Ramallah based group Al-Haq issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon international institutions concerned with human rights to take all necessary measures to protect the rights of Palestinian women in the Occupied Territories . |
| 17 | On International Women 's Day , 1989 Palestinian women made an appeal to women the world over for solidarity and action to end what is a fascist occupation . |
| 18 | The Women 's Section of , the African National Congress in Lusaka , supporting joint action , for the release of political prisoners and detainees , and against forced removals , issued a statement on International Women 's Day , calling upon women of the world to insist on the right to know what is going on in South Africa ; to intensify the campaign for sanctions ; to fight for prisoner of war status for captured combatants ; to support the Save the Patriots campaign and to remember Daisy Modise , the only woman patriot of the 62 prisoners on death row . |
| 19 | ( Brunsdon 1986 , p. 55 ) In relation to the production of more differentiated cultural meanings , Jacqueline Bobo 's article in Female Spectators ( 1988 ) on Black women 's viewing of Spielberg 's The Color Purple offers a good example of where feminist film criticism might go next . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The LSE group ( which was set up in October 1990 to support the Irish students ' campaign and to campaign for abortion rights for women in England and Ireland ) will be organising a further picket on that day to highlight this fundamental attack on Irish women 's right to choose . |
| 22 | The exhibition presented by the Irish women 's group focused on Irish women 's lives in Ireland and Scotland in the last century , not on ‘ promoting and peddling pro-Irish Republican publications and propaganda ’ ! |
| 23 | Recent health promotion has therefore concentrated on developing children 's self confidence and ‘ refusing skills ’ so that they are empowered beyond ‘ just saying no . ’ |
| 24 | The chapter by Eve Clark focuses on young children 's acquisition of word meanings . |
| 25 | Following explication and illustration of these principles , Clark notes that earlier work by Donaldson and Balfour ( 1968 ) on young children 's understanding of the words more and less appears to provide an exception to the Principle of Contrast . |
| 26 | The proposed research is designed to provide information on young children 's ability to make the transition from the concrete-based mathematics of the primary school to the type of more formal mathematics which is common in the secondary school . |
| 27 | Officials from the Union of Communication Workers say first deliveries on absent postmen 's rounds may be ignored until colleagues can split the workload on second deliveries . |
| 28 | Reductions of between 30 and 40 per cent on selected women 's clothes and accessories . |
| 29 | An inn-keeper like H. Goble of Petworth was worth £561 when his will was proved in 1670 ; the local glover , N. Warner , died in 1645 worth £1539 , most of which was held in mortgages on other men 's property . |
| 30 | Later , of course , I saw the same look on other men 's faces — ‘ |