Example sentences of "of [noun pl] 's [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their violently anticlerical tone , occasionally stooping to scurrilous abuse , provoked sharp replies from churchmen , some of whom themselves descended to the level of personal insults , mostly on the score of Cocks 's diminutive size and renowned eccentricity . |
| 2 | Two weeks ago Hoomey knew that he would have been terrified putting any part of his anatomy within an inch of Bones 's long , grooved teeth , but habit had given him confidence . |
| 3 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 4 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 5 | In reporting EDS-GFI 's 1992 revenues of $342m , 25% of EDS 's European business of $1,370m , Tordjman indicated the company is particularly interested in acquiring telecommunications expertise . |
| 6 | Meantime at the other end of the continent , the only country in northern Europe which does n't have an EDS presence is Finland , says Geoffrey Carroll , president of EDS 's northern European operations . |
| 7 | And although the arrangements made at Clovis 's death certainly set a precedent , it did not ensure the succession of all Merovingian males , despite Gregory of Tours 's famous dictum that " all boys born of kings are called king 's sons " . |
| 8 | In particular , the project investigates the importance of children 's increasing awareness that they do or do not know the precise reference of particular words . |
| 9 | It was vital to take account of children 's cognitive and emotional responses when evaluating their evidence . |
| 10 | The overall objective of this research is to develop a profile of children 's early vocabulary development based upon both comprehension and production data . |
| 11 | It deserves full and separate treatment , but the reader will no doubt keep it in mind as a major aspect of children 's emotional lives . |
| 12 | The question of children 's spiritual development and formation has previously been discussed in this Report , and many former girl and boy choristers testify to the benefits , spiritual as well as musical , of belonging to a good choir . |
| 13 | Visual search is held to be multifaceted in nature , involving the growing regulation and interaction of children 's visual , linguistic and cognitive systems . |
| 14 | The development of children 's spoken language in the English curriculum is concerned with the relations between language , speaker and listener . |
| 15 | To the extent that transformational rules have been challenged as accurate accounts of children 's emerging knowledge of the rules for organising language structures ( see Chapter 1 ) , the LAD is suspect . |
| 16 | Wales notes that great care is needed in making claims about the universality of the forms of children 's pictorial representation . |
| 17 | This project involves the development of a collaboration begun in 1981 between British and French teams with the aim of extending the theory of social representations ( Moscovici , 1981 ) to an interpretation of children 's socio-moral concepts and beliefs . |
| 18 | These treatments may be useful on a more widespread basis , too ; the NIDR advocates that the chewing surfaces of children 's permanent teeth be treated with sealants as soon as they surface from the gum , as a precaution . |
| 19 | Differences in children 's health , behaviour and attainment at 10 years associated with different maternal employment histories will be examined after taking account of children 's initial behaviour and cognitive ability at 5 years , maternal depression and attitudes and other relevant socio-economic factors . |
| 20 | There is therefore not a large discrepancy between studies of children 's linguistic abilities in this area , and studies of their cognitive abilities which show that three-year-olds are able to distinguish between causes and effects . |
| 21 | Unlike recent ‘ innatist ’ views of children 's intellectual development , Campbell and Olson 's framework represents cognitive development as ‘ the accretion and expansion of representational powers ’ . |
| 22 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 23 | On the other hand , studies of children 's spontaneous production have revealed that most of the causal sentences which children produce refer to intentions ( Hood , 1977 ; McCabe and Peterson , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | This programme of research has already brought to light unnoticed phenomena of children 's different abilities to communicate in the classroom . |
| 25 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 26 | This research will investigate the different and perhaps conflicting ways in which professional groups , parents and children view the formal assessment of children 's special educational needs under the 1981 Education Act . |
| 27 | Large regional studies of children 's smoking habits during the 1960 's and 1970's showed that more boys smoked than girls and that boys started earlier [ 3 ] . |
| 28 | Discovery of children 's mass graves |
| 29 | The interaction of children 's conceptual & procedural knowledge in science |
| 30 | It has shown the importance of children 's previous experience of exploratory discussion and reasoned argument . |